23°46′23″N 120°31′40″E / 23.772935°N 120.527717°E
Cihtong Township
莿桐鄉 Citong | |
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Location | Yunlin County, Taiwan |
Area | |
• Total | 51 km2 (20 sq mi) |
Population (February 2023)[1] | |
• Total | 27,538 |
• Density | 540/km2 (1,400/sq mi) |
Website | www |
Citong Township | |
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Chinese | 莿桐鄉 |
Hanyu Pinyin | Cìtóng Xiāng |
Wade–Giles | Tz'u4-t'ung2 Hsiang1 |
Tongyong Pinyin | Cìhtóng Siang |
Pha̍k-fa-sṳ | Tshṳ̀-thùng-hiông |
Hokkien POJ | Chhì-tông-hiong |
Cihtong Township[2][3][4][5][6][7][8] or Citong Township[9] is a rural township in Yunlin County, Taiwan. It has a population total of 27,538 (as of February 2023[update][1]) and an area of 50.8502 square kilometres.[1]
Cihtong was named after Cihtong Lane (Chinese: 莿桐巷; Pe̍h-ōe-jī: Chhì-tông-hāng). Before the Qing Dynasty era, Erythrina flowers (Chinese: 刺桐; Hanyu Pinyin: cìtóng; Tongyong Pinyin: cìhtóng; Pe̍h-ōe-jī: chhì-tông) flourished without any population there where former people came to reclaim wasteland, choosing a small lane to establish houses for a village in which the flowers spread throughout the whole lane.[citation needed]
The township comprises 14 villages: Citong, Damei, Gancuo, Ganxi, Liuge, Mayuan, Puwei, Puzi, Raoping, Sihe, Wuhua, Xinggui, Xingtong and Yihe.
The township main economy is agriculture. It produces paddy rice mainly along the northern township border with Zhuoshui River in which the output is the highest in the county.