Cishan District
Cishan District is a suburban district in northeastern Kaohsiung, Taiwan. It has an area of 94.61 square kilometers, or 36.53 square miles. The population of Cishan is 34,372 as of October 2023. It is the 19th most populous district in Kaohsiung.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Suburb with 37,300 residents
- Description: A district in Kaohsiung, Taiwan
- Also known as: “Banana Kingdom”, “Ch’i-shan”, “Ch’ishan”, “Chishan”, “Cishan”, “Fan-shu-liao”, “Fanshuliao”, “Qishan”, and “Qishan District”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Qishan Wude Hall and Cishan Tianhou Temple.
Qishan Wude Hall
Historic building
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The Cishan Wude Hall is a former martial arts training center in Qishan District, Kaohsiung, Taiwan. It was built in 1934 after being proposed by the Japanese "in the spirit of Bushido".
Cishan Tianhou Temple
Place of worship
Photo: WEI, WAN-CHEN, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Cishan Tianhou Temple is a place of worship.
Qishan Train Station- Sugar Railway Museum
Museum
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Qishan Station is a former train station in Cishan District, Kaohsiung, Taiwan.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Meinong District and Neimen District.
Meinong District
Suburb
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Meinong District is a Hakka district in Kaohsiung, Taiwan. Meinong is one of the four districts in Kaohsiung that is the central focus of Hakka cultural development, the others being Jiasian District, Shanlin District, and Liouguei District. Meinong District is situated 6 km east of Cishan District.
Neimen District
Suburb
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Neimen District is a rural district of Kaohsiung in southern Taiwan. Neimen is located in the mountainous area with very little flat land. Qishan River passes through the Neimen district. Neimen District is situated 6 km north of Cishan District.
Cishan District
- Categories: district of Taiwan and locality
- Location: Zhufeng Village, Qishan District, Kaohsiung, Southern Taiwan, Taiwan, East Asia, Asia
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Latitude
22.88849° or 22° 53′ 19″ northLongitude
120.48355° or 120° 29′ 1″ eastPopulation
37,300Elevation
52 metres (171 feet)Open location code
7QJ2VFQM+9COpenStreetMap ID
node 60655770OpenStreetMap feature
place=suburbGeoNames ID
1677944Wikidata ID
Q712942
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Armenian to Yue Chinese—“Cishan District” goes by many names.
- Armenian: “Ցիշանի Շրջան”
- Catalan: “districte de Cishan”
- Chinese: “Kî-san-khu”
- Chinese: “太平街”
- Chinese: “旗山”
- Chinese: “旗山区”
- Chinese: “旗山區”
- Chinese: “旗山鎮”
- Chinese: “蕃薯寮”
- Dutch: “Cishan”
- Dutch: “Qishan (Kaohsiung)”
- Dutch: “Qishan”
- German: “Chishan”
- German: “Qishan”
- Hakka Chinese: “Khì-sân-khî”
- Hakka Chinese: “Khì-sân-tsṳ́n”
- Italian: “Distretto di Qishan”
- Japanese: “きざん”
- Japanese: “旗山区”
- Japanese: “旗山鎮”
- Japanese: “蕃薯藔”
- Korean: “치산 진”
- Korean: “치산구”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Han-chî-liâu”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Han-tsî-liâu”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Han-tsû-liâu”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Kî-san-khu”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Kî-san-tìn”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Kî-san”
- Polish: “Qishan”
- Russian: “Цишань”
- Vietnamese: “Kỳ Sơn, Cao Hùng”
- Vietnamese: “Kỳ Sơn”
- Yue Chinese: “旗山”
- Yue Chinese: “旗山區”
- “太平街”
- “旗山”
- “旗山區”
- “旗山鎮”
- “蕃薯寮”
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