Erlun Explained

Official Name:	Erlun Township
Native Name:	二崙鄉
Subdivision Type:	Location
Area Total Km2:	60
Population As Of:	February 2023
Population Total:	25183
Population Density Km2:	auto

Erlun Township
C:	二崙鄉
P:	Èrlún Xiāng
W:	Êrh⁴-lun² Hsiang¹
Poj:	Jī-lūn-hiong
Phfs:	Ngi-lûn-hiông
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Erlun Township^[1] is a rural township in Yunlin County, Taiwan. It has a population total of 25,183 (^[2]) and an area of 59.5625 square kilometres.^[2]

Name

The name Erlun came from the fact that the area consists of two connected hills.^[3] ^[4]

History

Early residents of Erlun came from Jinjiang and Zhao'an in Fujian, China.

Geography

Administrative divisions

The township comprises 18 villages: Dahua (Chinese: 大華), Datong (Chinese: 大同), Dayi (Chinese: 大義), Dazhuang (Chinese: 大庄), Dingan (Chinese: 定安), Fuxing (Chinese: 復興), Ganghou (Chinese: 港後), Laihui (Chinese: 來惠), Lundong (Chinese: 崙東), Lunxi (Chinese: 崙西), Nanzi (Chinese: 湳仔), Sanhe (Chinese: 三和), Tianwei (Chinese: 田尾), Yangxian (Chinese: 楊賢), Yizhuang (Chinese: 義庄), Yongding (Chinese: 永定), Youche (Chinese: 油車) and Zhuangxi (Chinese: 庄西).

Tourist attractions

Notes and References

http://gn.moi.gov.tw/GeoNames/DataFile/%E8%87%BA%E7%81%A3%E5%9C%B0%E5%8D%80%E9%84%89%E9%8E%AE%E5%B8%82%E5%8D%80%E7%B4%9A%E4%BB%A5%E4%B8%8A%E8%A1%8C%E6%94%BF%E5%8D%80%E5%9F%9F%E5%90%8D%E7%A8%B1%E4%B8%AD%E8%8B%B1%E5%B0%8D%E7%85%A7%E8%A1%A8.pdf 臺灣地區鄉鎮市區級以上行政區域名稱中英對照表
https://siluo.household.yunlin.gov.tw/popul01/List.aspx?Parser=99,5,40,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,1,,,,11,112,2 雲林縣西螺戶政事務所-人口統計-村里鄰人口數 Population for Township and District.
Web site: History . 22 October 2013 . https://web.archive.org/web/20070905173047/http://www.ehlg.gov.tw/english/content/index.asp?m=1&m1=16&m2=72&gp=71 . 5 September 2007 . dead . from the Erlun township website.
http://www.ehlg.gov.tw/content/index.aspx?Parser=1,4,27 二崙開拓史