Pingtung City
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Pingtung City is the capital of 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 Province
Taiwan Province is one of the two administrative divisions referred to as provinces and is controlled by the Republic of China . The province covers approximately 73% of the territory controlled by the Republic of China...

.

Geography

Pingtung is located in Pingtung County, the southernmost county in Taiwan. It is located east of Kaohsiung
Kaohsiung
Kaohsiung is a city located in southwestern Taiwan, facing the Taiwan Strait on the west. Kaohsiung, officially named Kaohsiung City, is divided into thirty-eight districts. The city is one of five special municipalities of the Republic of China...

 and Fengshan, and centered between the western coast and the eastern mountain range. The climate is humid and extremely hot in summer, but fairly cool in the winter. Many residents work in Kaoshiung and commute by train.

Railway

North: Liukuaicuo(六塊厝車站);
Pingtung Station
Pingtung Station
Pingtung Station is a railway station of the Taiwan Railway Administration Pingtung Line located in Pingtung City, Pingtung County, Taiwan.-Overview:...

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South: Guilai(歸來車站)

Heading North:
  • 14_06:58 Songshan (松山) via Kaohsiung
    Kaohsiung
    Kaohsiung is a city located in southwestern Taiwan, facing the Taiwan Strait on the west. Kaohsiung, officially named Kaohsiung City, is divided into thirty-eight districts. The city is one of five special municipalities of the Republic of China...

    , Taipei
    Taipei
    Taipei City is the capital of the Republic of China and the central city of the largest metropolitan area of Taiwan. Situated at the northern tip of the island, Taipei is located on the Tamsui River, and is about 25 km southwest of Keelung, its port on the Pacific Ocean...

    ; 1008_07:30 Suong-San; 1010_08:00 Suong-San
  • 16_08:25 Songshan; 1012_09:02 Songshan; 20_09:30 Songshan; 34_10:50 Qidu (七堵) via Taipei
  • 90_11:40 Kaohsiung; 1022_12:30 Songshan; 114_12:34 Keelung (基隆市) via Taipei
  • 92_12:45 Fengyuan (豐原) via Taichung; 1028_13:36 Songshan; 2054_13:50 Kaohsiung
  • 1030_14:20 Hualien (花蓮) via Taipei; 2_14:57 Taipei Tourist Tran; 94_16:36 Kaohsiung
  • 1040_17:25 Songshan; 2056_18:18 Fengyuan; 2060_19:19 Kaohsiung; 1046_19:25 Songshan
  • 82_19:47 Fengyuan; 23B_21:00 Kaohsiung; 1055_21:21 Kaohsiung; 1048_21:26 Kaohsiung

Heading South:
  • 91_07:37 Taitung (台東
    Taitung City
    Taitung City is the county seat of Taitung County, Taiwan. It lies on the southeast coast of Taiwan facing the Pacific Ocean.The city is served by Taitung Airport. Taitung is a gateway to Green Island and Orchid Island, both of which are very popular among Taiwanese tourists.-History:Taitung...

    ); 2059_08:41 Hualien; 2051_09:32 Taitung
  • 81_10:34 Taitung; 2053_12:14 Taitung; 1_13:01 Fangliao (枋寮) Tourist Tran
  • 93_15:01 Taitung; 2055_17:02 Hualien; 95_19:17 Taitung
  • 97_21:41 Zhiben (知本); 2061_22:41 Dawu (大武)

A detailed time table is available in this website.TRA

Airport/Bus

Pingtung Airport
Pingtung Airport
Pingtung Airport are two airports in Pingtung, Taiwan . The two airports are under the control of the Civil Aeronautics AdministrationPingtung Airport was established on November 28, 1994 at the old art exhibition hall at the Pingtung Culture Centre...

屏東機場

Bus station is nearby the train station.Pingtung County and city bus (屏東客運)
Roadmap
  • 003 Pingtung-Shepi (社皮)- Donggang (東港) 005 Pingtung-Wandan (萬丹)-Donggang-Hengchun (恆春)
  • 102 Pingtung-Chaozhou (潮州) -Laiyi (來義) 104 Pingtung-Chaozhou-Jiangong (建功) 107 Pingtung-Chaozhou-Wutan (武潭)
  • 109 Pingtung-Chaozhou-Beishi (北勢) -Donggang 206 Pingtung-Ligang (里港) -Maolin/Duona (茂林/多納) 208 Pingtung-Ligang-Meinong (美濃)
  • 212 Pingtung-RoYang (洛陽) -Yanpu (鹽埔) 215 Pingtung-Yanpu-Gaoshu (高樹) 301 Pingtung-Zhenxing (振興) -Sandimen (三地門)
  • 302 Pingtung-Sanhe Village (三和村)-Sandimen 305 Pingtung-Longchan (龍泉) -SanDiMen 308 Pingtung-Wutai (霧台)
  • 310 Pingtung-Neipu (內埔)-Laiyi 314 Pingtung-Wanluan (萬巒) -Chaozhou 315 Pingtung-Chaozhou-Hengchun
  • 501 Pingtung-Qishan (旗山) -Tainan (台南) 502 Pingtung-Tainan (freeway)

Education


Notable natives

  • Fu-Te Ni
    Fu-Te Ni
    Fu-Te Ni is a Major League Baseball relief pitcher in the Detroit Tigers organization. Before joining the Tigers, Ni was a professional baseball player from Taiwan's Chinese Professional Baseball League...

  • Pan Wei-Lun
    Pan Wei-Lun
    Pan Wei-lun, , is a Taiwanese professional baseball pitcher. After brief amateur career in the Taiwan Cooperative Bank baseball team he was drafted by the Uni-President Lions of the Chinese Professional Baseball League in early 2003 and remains with this team to date...

  • Su Tseng-Chang
    Su Tseng-chang
    Su Tseng-chang is a Taiwanese politician of the Democratic Progressive Party. He is the former Premier of the Republic of China. Su actively campaigned for the Presidential nomination of the DPP, but finished second to Frank Hsieh in the nomination process...

  • Ang Lee
    Ang Lee
    Ang Lee is a Taiwanese film director. Lee has directed a diverse set of films such as Eat Drink Man Woman , Sense and Sensibility , Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon , Hulk , and Brokeback Mountain , for which he won an Academy...

     (director of Brokeback Mountain, Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon.)
  • Ella Chen
    Ella Chen
    Chen Chia-Hwa , more commonly credited as Ella, is the oldest member of the Taiwanese girl group S.H.E. Her name 'Ella', which means courage, was given after the personality test given by HIM Management Co....

    (of S.H.E)

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