Chaozhou, Pingtung
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Chaojhou Township is an urban township
Township (Taiwan)
The townships are the administrative subdivisions of Republic of China counties, along with County-controlled city. Most of the present townships originates from Towns and Villages in the Japanese era. After the World War II, the ROC government reformed them as urban townships and rural townships...

 in western Pingtung County
Pingtung County
Pingtung County is a county in Southern Taiwan. Pingtung County is officially administered as a county of the Republic of China . The oldest national park in Taiwan, Kenting National Park, was established in Pingtung County in 1984...

, Taiwan
Taiwan
Taiwan , also known, especially in the past, as Formosa , is the largest island of the same-named island group of East Asia in the western Pacific Ocean and located off the southeastern coast of mainland China. The island forms over 99% of the current territory of the Republic of China following...

.

Chaojhou is named for the mainland Chinese city of Chaozhou
Chaozhou
Chaozhou is a city in eastern Guangdong province of the People's Republic of China. It borders Shantou to the south, Jieyang to the southwest, Meizhou to the northwest, the province of Fujian to the east, and the South China Sea to the southeast...

. According to some historians, settlers from that city landed here in 1724, and thus named this area after their hometown.

Senior High Schools

  • National Chaozhou High School (國立潮州高級中學)
  • Jih Hsin Insdustrial and Commercial Vocational Senior School (日新高級工商職業學校)

Junior High Schools

  • Pingtung Conty Chaozhou Junior High School(屏東縣立潮州國民中學)
  • Pingtung Conty Guangchun Junior High School(屏東縣立光春國民中學)

Primary School


Highway

  • National Highway No.3
  • Provincial Highway No. 88
    • Zhutian System Interchange
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