Da'an District, Taichung

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Da'an
大安區
District
Da'an District
Daan TC.svg
Municipality Taichung
Country Taiwan
Area
 • Total 27.4045 km2 (10.5809 sq mi)
Population (January 2016)
 • Total 19,533
 • Density 710/km2 (1,800/sq mi)
Time zone CST (UTC+8)

Da'an District (Chinese :大安區; pinyin :Dà'ān Qū) is a coastal suburban district in Taichung, Taiwan, upgraded from Da-an Township. It lies between the Dajia river and the Da-an river.

Chinese language family of languages

Chinese is a group of related, but in many cases not mutually intelligible, language varieties, forming the Sinitic branch of the Sino-Tibetan language family. Chinese is spoken by the Han majority and many minority ethnic groups in China. About 1.2 billion people speak some form of Chinese as their first language.

Hanyu Pinyin, often abbreviated to pinyin, is the official romanization system for Standard Chinese in mainland China and to some extent in Taiwan. It is often used to teach Standard Mandarin Chinese, which is normally written using Chinese characters. The system includes four diacritics denoting tones. Pinyin without tone marks is used to spell Chinese names and words in languages written with the Latin alphabet, and also in certain computer input methods to enter Chinese characters.

Districts are administrative subdivisions of Special municipalities and provincial cities of Taiwan. There are two types of district in the administrative scheme.

The district's economy is based on rice.

The climate is sub-tropical.

History

In March 1842, [1] during the First Opium War, the brig Ann became shipwrecked near Da'an harbour. [2] It had 57 personnel, mostly Indian seacunnies and lascars. [3] Survivors of the wreck, along with the survivors of the Nerbudda shipwreck in September 1841, were executed in Tainan in August 1842. [1]

First Opium War War between Great Britain and China in the 19th century

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Administrative divisions

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References

  1. 1 2 Gordon, Leonard H. D. (2007). Confrontation over Taiwan: Nineteenth-Century China and the Powers. Plymouth: Lexington Books. p. 10. ISBN   978-0-7391-1868-9.
  2. ↑ Polachek, James M. (1992). The Inner Opium War. Council of East Asian Studies. p. 187.
  3. ↑ The Chinese Repository . Volume 12. Canton. 1843. p. 114.
  4. ↑ "Daan Coastal Park". Department of Personnel. 26 March 2015. Retrieved 21 June 2017.
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