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Tainan County is situated at the center of the largest plain-Chianan Plain-in southwest Taiwan. Located at the foot of a hill and beside the sea, Tainan County rises high in the east and becomes flat in the west. It is sited in the front area of the Central Range to the east and borders the Taiwan Strait to the west. It adjoins Chiayi County to its north and neighbors Tainan City and Kaohsiung County to the south. With a total area of 2,016 kilometers, Tainan is the ninth largest county in Taiwan. However, it is the largest county in terms of an arable area of more than 90,000 acres and the eighth largest county in terms of the population of 1.1 million.
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Tainan County is located to the south of the Tropic of Cancer. It is a subtropical area and has abundant agricultural products. Main crops include rice, sugar cane, and grains. Special local products are many and diverse. Tainan County has larger areas of paddy fields, dry farmland, fishing fields, salt fields, lotus fields, and water caltrop fields than any other county in Taiwan.
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Tainan County was divided into the northern and southern areas by Zengwun River. The northern area included Sinying, Beimen, and Zengwun districts. The southern area encompassed Sinhua and Hsinfeng districts. After Taiwan's retrocession, Tainan County was reorganized into 31 rural townships, urban townships, and county municipalities as well as 521 villages and boroughs.
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The Tainan County Government is located at Sinying in the northern area. Yongkang in the southern area is the most populated district in Tainan County as a result of prosperous industrial and commercial development.
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Tainan used to be a typical agricultural county. Thanks to rapid commercial and industrial development, Tainan has become an industrial county with more than 7,000 factories. At present, there are Sinying, Guantian, Sinshih, Yongkang, and Rende industrial areas in the county. It is expected that Tainan will transform into a high-tech county after the Tainan Science-based Industrial Park and the southern branch of the Industrial Technology Research Institute are set up there. By that time, Tainan's industrial and economic structures will be thoroughly transformed. Therefore, it is very clear that Tainan has a very promising future.
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Tainan County has 169 primary schools, 43 junior high schools, 28 public and private senior high and vocational high schools, and 11 junior colleges and universities. Such renowned universities as National Sun Yat-sen University, National Central University, and National Tainan Teachers College will be setting up branches in Tainan County in the near future.
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There are a great number of temples in Tainan County. Most of the people in Tainan worship Wang Yeh, which historically refers to the brothers of the emperor and in present-day religion to a Taoist deity. This is why Tainan has more Wang Yeh Temples than any other type of temple. Famous scenic spots in Tainan include temples, seashores, lakes, and mountains. Tainan County has more reservoirs than any other county in Taiwan, These include Zengwun, Baihe, Jiianshanpi, Deyuanpi, Wushantou, Luliao, Hutoupi, Mirror, and Nanhua reservoirs. In addition to supplying water, these reservoirs are also famous scenic areas.
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