Dongshi (東勢, Hakka: Tung-si) is an urban township in eastern Taichung County, Taiwan Province of the Republic of China. A majority of the residents are of Hakka ethnicity, making it an enclave in an otherwise non-Hakka county. It's Hakka dialect is very distinct compared to the dialects of other counties.
Dongshi is situated on a narrow, north-south oriented plain, flanked by the Da Jia River to the west and a mountain ridge to the east. It is th...
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Dongshi (東勢, Hakka: Tung-si) is an urban township in eastern Taichung County, Taiwan Province of the Republic of China. A majority of the residents are of Hakka ethnicity, making it an enclave in an otherwise non-Hakka county. It's Hakka dialect is very distinct compared to the dialects of other counties.
Dongshi is situated on a narrow, north-south oriented plain, flanked by the Da Jia River to the west and a mountain ridge to the east. It is this sense of being pressed up against that ridge, at the easternmost edge of the large west-central plain, that gives the town its name. Its elevation ranges from about 330 meters along the Dajia River to more than 725 meters in the foothills of the Central Mountain Range.
The township is bounded by (clockwise from the north) Zhuolan Township (Miaoli County), Heping Rural Township, Xinshe Rural Township, Shigang Rural Township, Fengyuan City, Houli, Taichung, Houli Rural Township, and Sanyi Rural Township (Miaoli County).
Dongshi includes some...
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