23°07′11″N 120°06′12″E / 23.11972°N 120.10333°E
Cigu
七股區 | |
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 Coastal fish farms in Cigu | |
 七股區公所 CIGU DISTRICT OFFICE | |
 Cigu District in Tainan City | |
| Location | Tainan, Taiwan |
| Government | |
| • Type | District government |
| • District Chief | Chuang Ming-hao |
| Area | |
| • Total | 110 km2 (40 sq mi) |
| Population (March 2023) | |
| • Total | 21,441 |
| Website | cigu |
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| Traditional Chinese | 七股區 | ||||||||||||||
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Cigu District[1][2][3][4][5][6][7][8] or Qigu is a rural district in the city of Tainan with about 21,441 inhabitants, situated on the westernmost point of the island of Taiwan.
The Cigu Lagoon is located in this township, and an ecological conservation area for black-faced spoonbills is situated on the estuary of the Zengwen River. It was a salt producing area, but now most of the salt products are imported from other counties.
- ^ "District Office". Tainan City Government Global Website. 2016-06-03. Retrieved 22 July 2019.
Cigu District Office
- ^ "Natural environment". Tainan City Government Cigu District Office. Retrieved 26 July 2019.
Cigu District is a coastal region located at the southwestern side of Tainan City, and is located at the westernmost side of Taiwan Island.
- ^ "Area of Jurisdiction". Tainan Branch, Administrative Enforcement Agency, Ministry of Justice. 7 March 2016. Retrieved 28 July 2019.
The Branch has jurisdiction over Tainan City . There are 37 administrative districts including East District, West Central District, South District, North District, Anping District and Annan District. Sinying District, YongKang District, Yanshuei District, Baihe District, Madou District, Jiali District, Sinhua District, Shanhua District, Syuejia District, Liouying District, Houbi District, Dongshan District, Siaying District, Lioujia District, Guantian District, Danei District, Sigang District, Cigu District, Jiangiyun District, Beimen District, Sinshih District, Anding District, Shanshang District, Yujing District, Nansi District, Nanhua District, Zuojhen District, Rende District, Gueiren District, Guanmiao District and Longci District.
- ^ Cigu (Variant - V) at GEOnet Names Server, United States National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency
- ^ "Cigu fish farmers protest high land cost in Tainan". Central News Agency. 9 July 2019. Retrieved 26 July 2019.
Some 80 aquaculture farmers from Tainan's Cigu District held placards that slammed land developers for snatching up land and driving up rents while making available plots of rural land less accessible.
- ^ Ts'ui-jung Liu; Andrea Janku; David Pietz (2018). Landscape Change and Resource Utilization in East Asia: Perspectives from Environmental History. Routledge. ISBN 978-1-351-18290-4.
These were (1) present-day Cigu (七股) and Annan (安南) District located downstream, (2) southwestern Sigang (西港) District, and (3) the border zone between Madou (麻豆) and Shanhua (善化) District.
- ^ "Cigu Seafood Festival". Travel Tainan. 13 February 2019. Retrieved 27 August 2020.
The natural ecology and industrial background of Cigu promoted the development of eco-tourism in the local area and led to the creation of the family-oriented West Coast tourism region.
- ^ 1.7-鄉鎮市區戶口數 [Population for Township and District]. Ministry of the Interior (in Chinese (Taiwan) and English). August 2020. Retrieved 21 September 2020.
七股區 Cigu District 110.1492 7,971 22,208 11,518 10,690 107.75 2.79 202