Huwei, Yunlin Explained
| Official Name: | Huwei Township
虎尾鎮 |
| Settlement Type: | Urban township |
| Subdivision Type: | Location |
| Subdivision Name: | Yunlin County, Taiwan |
| Area Total Km2: | 69 |
| Population As Of: | February 2023 |
| Population Total: | 70300 |
| Population Density Km2: | auto |
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| Other Name: | Kobi |
Huwei Township is an urban township in Yunlin County, Taiwan. It has a population of about 70,300.
Name
In the 17th century, during the Dutch era, Favorolang was one of the largest and most powerful aboriginal villages in Taiwan.[1] The name has also been spelled Favorlang, Favorlangh, and Vovorollang.[2] Its location was north of Tirosen (modern-day Chiayi), and the Favorlang river had been called by the Chinese How-boe-khe during the reign of the Qing Yongzheng Emperor (ca. 1722 – 1735). The Chinese name for the area was later changed to Go-keng-chhu .[3]
The name Favorlang is said to have derived from the ethnonym Babuza,[4] a tribe of the Taiwanese Plains Aborigines.
In 1920, during Taiwan's Japanese era, the town was administered as, under, Tainan Prefecture. During this era, the town earned the nickname of .
Government
Administrative divisions
There are 29 villages:[5]
Local government
Economy
Education
Tourist attractions
Transportation
The township houses the Taiwan High Speed Rail (THSR) Yunlin Station.
Famous residents
Sister city relations
Notable natives
- Chen Po-chih, Minister of the Council for Economic Planning and Development (2000–2002)
- Frankie Huang, actor and television host
External links
Notes and References
- Book: Andrade, Tonio . Tonio Andrade . How Taiwan Became Chinese: Dutch, Spanish, and Han Colonization in the Seventeenth Century . Columbia University Press . Chapter 7: The Challenges of a Chinese Frontier. http://www.gutenberg-e.org/andrade/andrade03.html#note68 . 2005 .
- Book: Campbell . William . William Campbell (missionary) . Formosa under the Dutch: described from contemporary records, with explanatory notes and a bibliography of the island . 1903 . Kegan Paul . London . 644323041 . Explanatory Notes . https://archive.org/stream/formosaunderdut01campgoog#page/n554/mode/2up . 542.
- Book: 楊彥騏 . zh:虎尾的大代誌 . 2003 . 雲林縣政府文化局 . Yunlin . zh . 9789570138382.
- Book: Li, Paul Jen-kuei . Introduction: Notes on Favorlang, an Extinct Formosan language . Ogawa . Naoyoshi . English-Favorlang vocabulary . 2003 . Research Institute for Languages and Cultures of Asia and Africa . Tokyo . 4872978536 . 1–13 . registration .
- Web site: Welcome To Huwei . Huwei Township Office . 2010 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20140222025625/http://www.huwei.gov.tw/english/content/index.asp?m=1&m1=15&m2=62&gp=59 . 2014-02-22 .
- Web site: Taiwan YunLin District Court. uld.judicial.gov.tw. 19 April 2018.
- Web site: International Exchange. List of Affiliation Partners within Prefectures. Council of Local Authorities for International Relations (CLAIR). 21 November 2015. dead. https://web.archive.org/web/20151121141212/http://www.clair.or.jp/cgi-bin/simai/e/03.cgi?p=05&n=Akita%20Prefecture. 21 November 2015.
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