Sandimen

22°43′N 120°39′E

Sandimen Township
三地門鄉
Mountain indigenous township
Sandimen Township in Pingtung County
Sandimen Township in Pingtung County
LocationPingtung County, Taiwan Province, Republic of China
Area
 • Total196 km2 (76 sq mi)
Population
 (August 2023)
 • Total7,750
 • Density40/km2 (100/sq mi)
Sandimen Township
Traditional Chinese三地門鄉
Alternative Chinese name
Traditional Chinese山地門

Sandimen Township[1] is a mountain indigenous township in Pingtung County, Taiwan Province, Republic of China. The population of the township consists mainly of the Paiwan people with a substantial Rukai minority.

Names

Ethnic Chinese settlers homophonically translated the original Paiwan name (Paiwan: setjimur, lit. 'people of Tjimur communinty'[2]) into Hokkien (Chinese: 山豬毛; Pe̍h-ōe-jī: Soaⁿ-ti-mn̂g; lit. 'wild-boar bristle'; or 山地門; Soaⁿ-tē-mn̂g; 'mountains-gate').[3] Under Japanese rule the name was Sanchimon (Japanese: 山地門). Following the handover of Taiwan from Japan to the Republic of China in 1945, the area became Sandimeng Township (三地盟鄉; Sāndìméng Xiāng) but the name was changed again in 1947 to Sandi Township (Chinese: 三地鄉; pinyin: Sāndì Xiāng; Pe̍h-ōe-jī: Sam-tē-hiong) but the Taiwanese pronunciation of Soaⁿ-tē-mn̂g continued to be commonly used.[4] In August 1992, the township assumed its current name.

History

During the Japanese era, Sandimen was grouped with modern-day Majia Township and Wutai Township as "Aboriginal Areas" (蕃地), which was governed under Heitō District (屏東郡) of Takao Prefecture. Following the Kuomintang takeover of Taiwan in 1945, Sandimen was assigned to Kaohsiung County and, on 16 August 1950, it became a part of the newly established Pingtung County.

Geography
  • Population: 7,750 people (August 2023)
  • Area: 196.4 square kilometres (75.8 sq mi)

Administrative divisions

The township comprises 10 villages: Anpo, Dalai, Dashe, Dewen, Jingshan, Jingye, Koushe, Mani, Saijia and Sande.

Tourist attractions

References
  1. 臺灣地區鄉鎮市區級以上行政區域名稱中英對照表 Archived 2012-03-25 at the Wayback Machine Glossary of Names for Administrative Divisions. (in Chinese) Accessed at Taiwan Geographic Names Information System website Archived 2013-08-16 at the Wayback Machine (in English). Ministry of the Interior. 16 June 2011. Retrieved 1 April 2015.
  2. Taiwan Sōtokufu Banzoku Chōsakai (臺灣總督府蕃族調查會) (2015). 蕃族調查報告書 第八冊：排灣族 [An Investigation of the Aborigines in Taiwan. Vol VIII. Paiwan] (in Chinese (Taiwan)). Translated by Institute of Ethnology, Academia Sinica. Taipei: Institute of Ethnology, Academia Sinica. ISBN 978-986-04-6856-4.
  3. "Entry #40016". 臺灣閩南語常用詞辭典 [Dictionary of Frequently-Used Taiwan Minnan]. (in Chinese and Hokkien). Ministry of Education, R.O.C. 2011.
  4. 吳秀麗 (1994). Independent Evening Post 商用台語 (in Chinese). Taipei. p. 145. ISBN 9789575963149.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
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