Cihtong

This article is about the town in Taiwan. For the Chinese city once nicknamed "Citong" or "Zaiton", see Quanzhou.

Citong Township 莿桐鄉
Rural township
Farm fields with cover crops in the winter in Citong
Citong Township in Yunlin County
Location	Yunlin County, Taiwan
Area
• Total	51 km2 (20 sq mi)
Population  (December 2017)
• Total	28,939
• Density	570/km2 (1,500/sq mi)
Website	www.cihtong.gov.tw/english/

Citong Township
Chinese	莿桐鄉
Hanyu Pinyin	Cìtóng Xiāng
Wade–Giles	Tz'u4-t'ung2 Hsiang1
Pha̍k-fa-sṳ	Tshṳ̀-thùng-hiông
Hokkien POJ	Chhì-tông-hiong

Citong Township is a rural township in Yunlin County, Taiwan. It has a population total of 28,939 (as of December 2017) and an area of 50.8502 square kilometres.

Name

Citong was named after Citong Lane (Chinese: 莿桐巷; Pe̍h-ōe-jī: Chhì-tông-hāng). Before the Qing Dynasty era, Erythrina flowers (Chinese: 刺桐; pinyin: cìtóng; Pe̍h-ōe-jī: chhì-tông) flourished without any population there where former people came to reclaim wasteland, choosing a small lane to establish houses for a village in which the flowers spread throughout the whole lane.

Geography

Administrative divisions

The township comprises 14 villages: Citong, Damei, Gancuo, Ganxi, Liuge, Mayuan, Puwei, Puzi, Raoping, Sihe, Wuhua, Xinggui, Xingtong and Yihe.

Economy

The township main economy is agriculture. It produces paddy rice mainly along the northern township border with Zhuoshui River in which the output is the highest in the county.

External links

• "To know Citong" at township website