Lujhu District, Kaohsiung

Lujhu District[2][3][4][5][6] (Chinese: 路竹區; Hanyu Pinyin: Lùzhú Qū; Tongyong Pinyin: Lùjhú Cyu; Wade–Giles: Lu4-chu2 Ch'ü1) is a suburban district of Kaohsiung City, Taiwan.

For the district in Taoyuan City, see Luzhu District, Taoyuan.

Lujhu

路竹區

Luzhu[1]
District
Lujhu District[2]
高雄市路竹區公所
LUJHU DISTRICT OFFICE KAOHSIUNG CITY
Lujhu District in Kaohsiung City
CountryTaiwan
RegionSouthern Taiwan
Population
 (January 2016)
 • Total53,081
WebsiteOfficial Website (in Chinese)
Lujhu District Office

History

After the handover of Taiwan from Japan to the Republic of China in 1945, Lujhu was organized as a rural township of Kaohsiung County. On 25 December 2010, Kaohsiung County was merged with Kaohsiung City and Lujhu was upgraded to a district of the city.

Administrative divisions

The district consists of Zhuhu, Dingliao, Xinda, Houxiang, Beiling, Shexi, Jiabei, Jianan, Xiakeng, Zhuyuan, Zhutung, Zhuxi, Wenbei, Wennan, SanyevYaliao, Shetung, Shezhong, Zhunan and Shenan Village.[7]

Politics

The district is part of Kaohsiung City Constituency II electoral district for Legislative Yuan.

Education

Transportation
Luzhu Station

Notable natives
gollark: I resent geometry.
gollark: What's the intuition for the product rule?
gollark: For natural numbers, anyway.
gollark: As it turns out, instead of the power rule you can just do horrible amounts of product rule, if you have a rule that d/dx x is 2 and d/dx a for constant a is 0.
gollark: osmarkscalculator™ actually defines derivatives recursively using it!

See also

References
  1. 臺灣地區鄉鎮市區級以上行政區域名稱中英對照表 (PDF). Online Translation System of Geographic Name, Ministry of Interior. 16 June 2011. pp. 4–5. Archived from the original (PDF) on 25 March 2012. 高雄市 Kaohsiung City{...}路竹區 Luzhu District
  2. "Administrative Districts". 高雄市政府. 30 September 2016. Retrieved 4 April 2017.
  3. "Emblem". Lujhu District Office. Retrieved 30 July 2019. The smiling face is the conclusion of the overall logo design. If people are treating each other with a smile and dealing with everyday affairs with a smile, then an open-minded, united, and peaceful Lujhu District is not far from reach.
  4. Lujhu (Variant - V) at GEOnet Names Server, United States National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency
  5. "Six mayors, premier discuss budgets". Taipei Times. 28 December 2018. Retrieved 30 July 2019. Kaohsiung Mayor Han Kuo-yu (韓國瑜) also requested funding for transportation projects, in particular an extension of the metro service in Kaohsiung to Lujhu (路竹) and Linyuan (林園) districts.
  6. CHUNG-MING LIANG (2016). "Development of teacher education policies in Taiwan during the Dutch and Spanish occupation, the Zheng and Qing period and the Japanese colonial period". Taylor & Francis. Retrieved 30 July 2019. the Dutch constructed community churches at Mujialiuwan (now Anding District, Tainan City), Soulangh (now Jiali District, Tainan City), Madou (now Madou District, Tainan City), Tavocan (now Sinhua District, Tainan City) and Tapuyen (now Lujhu District, Kaohsiung City
  7. https://www.cec.gov.tw/pc/en/TV/nm64000002400000000.html
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