| Taitung | |
| Official Name: | Taitung City |
| Other Name: | Taitō |
| Settlement Type: | County-administered city |
| Nickname: | (Eastern City) |
| Pushpin Map: | Taiwan |
| Pushpin Map Caption: | Location in the Republic of China |
| Coordinates: | 22.7583°N 121.1444°W |
| Subdivision Type: | Country |
| Subdivision Name: | Republic of China (Taiwan) |
| Subdivision Type2: | County |
| Subdivision Name2: | Taitung |
| Leader Title: | Mayor |
| Leader Name: | Chang Kuo-chou (Chinese: 張國洲)[1] |
| Area Total Km2: | 109.7691 |
| Population Total: | 103,260 |
| Population As Of: | February 2023 |
| Population Density Km2: | auto |
| Website: | www.taitungcity.gov.tw |
| T: | 市 |
| P: | Táidōng Shì |
| Myr: | Táidūng Shr̀ |
| Bpmf: | ㄊㄞˊ ㄉㄨㄥ ㄕˋ |
| Tp: | Táidong Shìh |
| Gr: | Tairdong Shyh |
| W: | Tʻai²-tung¹ Shih⁴ |
| Mps: | Táidūng Shr̀ |
| Poj: | Tâi-tang-chhī |
| Tl: | Tâi-tang-tshī |
| Phfs: | Thòi-tûng-sṳ |
| J: | Toi4dung1 Si5 |
| Ci: | or |
| Y: | Tòihdùng Síh or Tòihdūng Síh |
| L: | Eastern Taiwan |
| Showflag: | ppoj |
| Kanji: | 台東市 |
| Kyujitai: | 臺東市 |
| Kana: | たいとうし |
| Romaji: | Taitō-shi |
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.
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" . 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 (卑南廳) was established in 1875, and was upgraded and renamed to Taitung Prefecture in 1888, after the island was made Fujian-Taiwan Province.[2]
During Japanese rule, the central settlement was called . 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). Taitō Town was established in 1920 under Taitō Prefecture, and included modern Taitung City and eastern Beinan Township. There were no Americans living here during the Japanese rule.
After handover of Taiwan from Japan to the ROC in 1945, it became Taitung Township and in 1948 it was promoted to Taitung City.
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.
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.
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