{{Short description|County-administered city in Taiwan, Republic of China}}{{Redirect|Taitung, Taiwan|the county|Taitung County|other uses|Taitung (disambiguation)}}

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| other_name = TaitÅ| settlement_type = County-administered city| image_skyline = å°æ±é¯‰éšå±±ä¿¯çž°å¸‚å€.jpgTaitÅlead=yes}}}} (Eastern City)| image_caption = View of Taitung City| image_flag = | image_seal = frame=yesplain=yesstroke-width=2zoom=09}}| pushpin_map = Taiwan| pushpin_label_position = | pushpin_map_caption = Location in the Republic of China223012140region:TW|display=it}}| subdivision_type = Country| subdivision_name = Republic of China (Taiwan) County (Taiwan)>CountyTaitung County>Taitung| seat_type = | seat = | leader_title = MayorWEBSITE=TAITUNG CITY OFFICE zh-tw}}| area_footnotes = | area_total_km2 = 109.7691| population_footnotes = | population_total = 103,260| population_as_of = February 2023| population_density_km2 = auto| population_note = www.taitungcity.gov.tw {{In lang>zh-tw}}}}

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å¸‚|s=mi={{IPAc-cmnai.ong-4}}|myr=TÃ¡idÅ«ng ShrÌ€tp=TÃ¡idong ShÃ¬hw=TÊ»aiÂ²-tungÂ¹ Shihâ´|mps=TÃ¡idÅ«ng ShrÌ€tl=TÃ¢i-tang-tshÄ«j=Toi4dung1 Si5t4d7s5}} or{{IPAc-yueoi.ung-iy=TÃ²ihdÃ¹ng SÃh orTÃ²ihdÅ«ng SÃhshowflag=ppojkyujitai=è‡ºæ±å¸‚romaji=TaitÅ-shi}}(File:TaitungCity.png|thumb|Taitung City in Taitung County)Taitung City () is a county-administered city and the county seat of Taitung County, Taiwan. It lies on the southeast coast of Taiwan facing the Pacific Ocean. Taitung City is the most populous subdivision of Taitung County and it is one of the major cities on the east coast of the island.Taitung City is served by Taitung Airport. Taitung is a gateway to Green Island and Orchid Island, both of which are popular tourist destinations.

History

(File:Map of TaitÅ-gai.jpg|thumb|Taitung City under Japanese rule)Before the 16th century the Taitung plain was settled by agriculturalist Puyuma and Amis aboriginal tribes. Under Dutch rule and during Qing rule, a large part of eastern Taiwan, including today's Taitung, was called "Pi-lam" ({{zh|c=å‘å—|poj=Pi-lÃ¢m}}). Many artifacts of the prehistory sites of the city are located at Beinan Cultural Park, which was discovered in 1980 during the construction of Taitung Station.In the late 19th century, when Liu Mingchuan was the Qing Governor of Taiwan, Han Chinese settlers moved into the Taitung region. Pi-lam Subprefecture ((:zh:å‘å—å»³|å‘å—å»³)) was established in 1875, and was upgraded and renamed to Taitung Prefecture in 1888, after the island was made Fujian-Taiwan Province.BOOK, Davidson, James W., James W. Davidson, The Island of Formosa, Past and Present : history, people, resources, and commercial prospects : tea, camphor, sugar, gold, coal, sulphur, economical plants, and other productions, 1903, Macmillan & co.,weblink London and New York, 6931635M, 244,

Japanese rule

(File:Txu-pclmaps-oclc-6550512-taito-2315-iii.jpg|left|thumb|Map of Taitung (labeled as TAITÅŒ) and surrounding area (1944))During Japanese rule, the central settlement was called {{nihongo|NankyÅ Village|å—é„‰æ–°è¡—}}. {{nihongo4||è‡ºæ±å»³|TaitÅ ChÅ}} was one of twenty local administrative offices established in 1901. English-language works from the era refer to the place as Pinan (from Japanese) and Pilam (from Hokkien).{{sfnp|Davidson|1903|loc=Index p.29 |ps=: "Pinan (Pilam)"}} TaitÅ Town was established in 1920 under TaitÅ Prefecture, and included modern Taitung City and eastern Beinan Township. There were no Americans living here during the Japanese rule.{{citation needed|date=August 2016}}

Post-war

(File:Txu-oclc-6557994-index-454.jpg|left|thumb|Map of the region including Taitung (labeled as T'ai-tung (TaitÅ) ) (1951))After handover of Taiwan from Japan to the ROC in 1945, it became Taitung Township and in 1948 it was promoted to Taitung City.

City government

Taitung City government is headquartered at Taitung City Hall which takes the responsibility for the city general administration and all of its other affairs, from folk, education, cultural popularization, negotiation, emergency help, disaster prevention, environmental taxation, cleaning control, finance, public property control, tellership, taxing help, farming and fishing control, wholesale products, marketing and business administration, urban planning, public establishment, tourism, community development, army service administration, welfare, national health insurance program and indigenous administration affairs.

Departments

Civil Affair Section
Financial Section
Construction Section
Labor Affair Section
Social and Army Service Section
Aboriginal Administration Section
Administration Section
Personnel Office
Budget, Accounting and Statistics Office
Ethics SectionWEB, Organization,weblink Taitung City Office, 8 May 2022, {{In lang|zh-tw}}

Climate

Taitung has a tropical monsoon climate, with a wet season from May to October, a dry season from November to April, and consistently very warm to hot temperatures with high humidity. Unlike most tropical climates, however, the dry season is foggy rather than sunny, so that moisture availability during this period is greater than the low rainfall and warm temperatures would suggest. The highest record of temperature of Taiwan was recorded in Taitung on May 9, 2004, with temperatures peaking above 40 degrees Celsius for the first time in Taiwan's recorded history.{{Weather box|width=auto|metric first=y|single line=y|collapsed = Y|location = Taitung City (1991â€“2020 normals, extremes 1901â€“presentï¼‰|Jan record high C = 32.7|Feb record high C = 34.0|Mar record high C = 37.4|Apr record high C = 38.2|May record high C = 40.2|Jun record high C = 39.5|Jul record high C = 39.0|Aug record high C = 39.3|Sep record high C = 37.8|Oct record high C = 38.5|Nov record high C = 33.3|Dec record high C = 30.8|year record high C = |Jan high C = 23.2|Feb high C = 23.8|Mar high C = 25.4|Apr high C = 27.8|May high C = 30.0|Jun high C = 31.8|Jul high C = 32.6|Aug high C = 32.2|Sep high C = 31.3 |Oct high C = 29.4|Nov high C = 27.1|Dec high C = 24.3|year high C =|Jan mean C = 19.7|Feb mean C = 20.2|Mar mean C = 21.8|Apr mean C = 24.1|May mean C = 26.4|Jun mean C = 28.3|Jul mean C = 29.1|Aug mean C = 28.8|Sep mean C = 27.7|Oct mean C = 25.8|Nov mean C = 23.6|Dec mean C = 20.8|year mean C =|Jan low C = 17.1|Feb low C = 17.5|Mar low C = 19.0|Apr low C = 21.3|May low C = 23.7|Jun low C = 25.5|Jul low C = 26.2|Aug low C = 26.1|Sep low C = 25.0|Oct low C = 23.2|Nov low C = 21.1|Dec low C = 18.3|year low C = 22.0 |Jan record low C = 7.2|Feb record low C = 7.5|Mar record low C = 9.7|Apr record low C = 11.6|May record low C = 15.9|Jun record low C = 17.1|Jul record low C = 20.5|Aug record low C = 20.9|Sep record low C = 18.3|Oct record low C = 15.2|Nov record low C = 9.3|Dec record low C = 8.9|year record low C = |precipitation colour = green|Jan precipitation mm = 33.1|Feb precipitation mm = 40.7|Mar precipitation mm = 36.5|Apr precipitation mm = 64.8|May precipitation mm = 138.3|Jun precipitation mm = 201.9|Jul precipitation mm = 250.2|Aug precipitation mm = 316.4|Sep precipitation mm = 295.6|Oct precipitation mm = 215.0|Nov precipitation mm = 99.3|Dec precipitation mm = 45.8|Jan humidity = 71.5|Feb humidity = 72.9|Mar humidity = 73.3|Apr humidity = 75.2|May humidity = 77.3|Jun humidity = 77.3|Jul humidity = 76.0|Aug humidity = 76.6|Sep humidity = 76.3|Oct humidity = 72.6|Nov humidity = 72.1|Dec humidity = 70.7|year humidity =|unit precipitation days = 0.1 mm|Jan precipitation days = 8.4|Feb precipitation days = 9.1|Mar precipitation days = 9.3|Apr precipitation days = 10.9|May precipitation days = 14.4|Jun precipitation days = 11.5|Jul precipitation days = 10.1|Aug precipitation days = 11.7|Sep precipitation days = 12.8|Oct precipitation days = 9.9|Nov precipitation days = 8.6|Dec precipitation days = 8.4|Jan sun = 93.7|Feb sun = 85.1|Mar sun = 102.1|Apr sun = 116.8|May sun = 148.0|Jun sun = 210.2|Jul sun = 253.2|Aug sun = 223.5|Sep sun = 173.1|Oct sun = 157.3|Nov sun = 122.2|Dec sun = 98.6|year sun = PUBLISHER = CENTRAL WEATHER BUREAU PUBLISHER=CENTRAL WEATHER BUREAU ACCESS-DATE=29 NOVEMBER 2022, HTTPS://WWW.CWB.GOV.TW/DATA/CLIMATE/STATISTICS/PDF/SORT_19.PDF >TITLE=æ°£è±¡ç«™å„æœˆä»½æœ€é«˜æ°£æº«çµ±è¨ˆ(çºŒ) LANGUAGE=ZH PUBLISHER=CENTRAL WEATHER BUREAU ACCESS-DATE=29 NOVEMBER 2022, HTTPS://WWW.CWB.GOV.TW/DATA/CLIMATE/STATISTICS/PDF/SORT_21.PDF >TITLE=æ°£è±¡ç«™å„æœˆä»½æœ€ä½Žæ°£æº«çµ±è¨ˆ(çºŒ) LANGUAGE=ZH, 29 November 2022, }}

Administrative divisions

Wenhua, Minzu, Zijiang, Minsheng, Baosang, Minquan, Siwei, Zhonghua, Renai, Jiangguo, Datong, Chenggong, Jianguo, Zhongzheng, Zhongshan, Xingguo, Tiehua, Tunghai, Fuguo, Fuxing, Xinxing, Xinsheng, Zhongxin, Malan, Guangming, Fengnian, Fengle, Yongle, Kangle, Fengrong, Fenggu, Fengli, Fengyuan, Fugang, Fufeng, Nanrong, Yanwan, Beinan, Nanwang, Fengtian, Xinyuan, Jianhe, Jianxing, Jianye, Zhiben and Jiannong Village.