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Kaohsiung (Chinese:高雄, TongYong PinYin: GaoSyóng, Hanyu Pinyin: GÄ?oxióng, POJ: Ko-hiông; coordinates 23° 03' N, 120° 27' E) is the second largest city in Taiwan (population around 1,450,000) with eleven districts. Kaohsiung can refer to either Kaohsiung City, which is administered directly by the central government of the Republic of China, or Kaohsiung County, which is administered as part of Taiwan Province. This article is about Kaohsiung City.
Kaohsiung is a major center for manufacturing, refining, and transportation. Unlike Taipei, the streets of Kaohsiung are wide and traffic is less congested than in Taipei. However, the air pollution around Kaohsiung is notoriously bad because of the heavy industry in the area. Kaohsiung is the major port through which most of Taiwan's oil is imported, which accounts for the large amount of heavy industry.
It is an export processing zone—producing aluminium, wood and paper products, fertilizers, cement, metals, machinery, and ships. With its harbor one of the four largest in the world, Kaohsiung is the center of Taiwan's shipbuilding industry, as well as home to a large ROC Navy base. Its subway system, the Kaohsiung Mass Rapid Transit (KMRT), should be running in 2006.
Kaohsiung will host the 2009 World Games, a multisport event primarily composed of sports not featured in the Olympic Games.
Founded near the end of the Ming Dynasty, the city grew up from a small village called in the 17th century Tá�-káu (打狗) in the Holo language spoken by most of the early immigrants (pronounced "Dagou" in Mandarin). The name originates from Makatao, the name of a local tribe and meaning "bamboo forest" in the local tribe's language. The Dutch established Fort Zeelandia in 1624, defeated local tribes around here in 1635, but were expelled by Koxinga in 1662. Under Zheng Jing's (son of Koxinga) control the area was named Wan-nien-chow in 1664. Following a further name change to Tá�-káu in the late 1670s, the town grew dramatically with immigrants from mainland China. In 1684 the Qing conquered Taiwan and renamed the town Fengshan County (鳳山縣), considering it a part of Taiwan Prefecture. It was first opened as a port during the 1680s.
In 1895 Taiwan was ceded to Japan as part of the Treaty of Shimonoseki. It was during this period that the city's name changed from 打狗 (pronounced Tá�-káu in Taiwanese) to 高雄 (Takao in Japanese). While the sound remained more or less the same, the old character meaning of "Beating Dog" was replaced with the more elegant-sounding "High Hero". After control of Taiwan was handed to the Republic of China in 1945, the official romanization of the city name came to be "Kao-hsiung", based on the Wade-Giles romanization of the Mandarin Chinese reading.
The Japanese developed Kaohsiung, especially the harbour. Kaohsiung was upgraded to a municipality on July 1, 1979, by the Executive Yuan, which approved this proposal on November 19, 1978. The famous-in-hindsight Kaohsiung Incident of December 1979 occurred in the city.
Kaohsiung is a major center for manufacturing, refining, and transportation. Unlike Taipei, the streets of Kaohsiung are wide and traffic is less congested than in Taipei. However, the air pollution around Kaohsiung is notoriously bad because of the heavy industry in the area. Kaohsiung is the major port through which most of Taiwan's oil is imported, which accounts for the large amount of heavy industry.
It is an export processing zone—producing aluminium, wood and paper products, fertilizers, cement, metals, machinery, and ships. With its harbor one of the four largest in the world, Kaohsiung is the center of Taiwan's shipbuilding industry, as well as home to a large ROC Navy base. Its subway system, the Kaohsiung Mass Rapid Transit (KMRT), should be running in 2006.
Kaohsiung will host the 2009 World Games, a multisport event primarily composed of sports not featured in the Olympic Games.
Founded near the end of the Ming Dynasty, the city grew up from a small village called in the 17th century Tá�-káu (打狗) in the Holo language spoken by most of the early immigrants (pronounced "Dagou" in Mandarin). The name originates from Makatao, the name of a local tribe and meaning "bamboo forest" in the local tribe's language. The Dutch established Fort Zeelandia in 1624, defeated local tribes around here in 1635, but were expelled by Koxinga in 1662. Under Zheng Jing's (son of Koxinga) control the area was named Wan-nien-chow in 1664. Following a further name change to Tá�-káu in the late 1670s, the town grew dramatically with immigrants from mainland China. In 1684 the Qing conquered Taiwan and renamed the town Fengshan County (鳳山縣), considering it a part of Taiwan Prefecture. It was first opened as a port during the 1680s.
In 1895 Taiwan was ceded to Japan as part of the Treaty of Shimonoseki. It was during this period that the city's name changed from 打狗 (pronounced Tá�-káu in Taiwanese) to 高雄 (Takao in Japanese). While the sound remained more or less the same, the old character meaning of "Beating Dog" was replaced with the more elegant-sounding "High Hero". After control of Taiwan was handed to the Republic of China in 1945, the official romanization of the city name came to be "Kao-hsiung", based on the Wade-Giles romanization of the Mandarin Chinese reading.
The Japanese developed Kaohsiung, especially the harbour. Kaohsiung was upgraded to a municipality on July 1, 1979, by the Executive Yuan, which approved this proposal on November 19, 1978. The famous-in-hindsight Kaohsiung Incident of December 1979 occurred in the city.
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