Namasia District

Namasia
那瑪夏區
Namasia District[1]
Maya Village
Maya Village
Official logo of Namasia
Namasia District in Kaohsiung City
Namasia District in Kaohsiung City
Coordinates: 23°16′18″N 120°43′33″E / 23.271627°N 120.725906°E / 23.271627; 120.725906
CountryTaiwan
MunicipalityKaohsiung City
Boroughs
List
  • 3 villages
Government
 • TypeDistrict government
 • District chiefPayan Islituan (Ind.)
Population
 (October 2023)
 • Total
3,165
Websitenamasia-en.kcg.gov.tw Edit this at Wikidata

Namasia District[1][2][3][4][5][6] (Kanakanavu language, Bunun language: Namasia; Chinese: 那瑪夏; Hanyu Pinyin: Nàmǎxià Qū; Tongyong Pinyin: Nàmǎsià Cyu; Wade–Giles: Na4-ma3-hsia4 Ch'ü1), formerly Sanmin Township (三民鄉; Sānmín Xiāng), is a mountain indigenous district located in the northeastern part of Kaohsiung, Taiwan. It is the second largest district in Kaohsiung after Taoyuan District.

The population of the township is mainly the indigenous Bunun, Kanakanavu and Saaroa peoples. The modern-day population of the Kanakanavu people live in the two villages of Manga and Takanua.[7]

  1. ^ a b "Administrative Districts". 高雄市政府. 30 September 2016. Retrieved 4 April 2017. Namasia District:
  2. ^ "District Mayor's Remarks". Namasia District Office. Retrieved 28 July 2019. Welcome to Namasia District . Just follow Tai 21 Expressway northbound, you will come right into Namasia. {...}From the beautiful mountains and rivers, we sincerely invite you to witness and experience the tribal myths and the beauty of Namasia.{...}Address: No.1, Anshan Ln., Namasia District, Kaohsiung City 849, Taiwan (R.O.C.)
  3. ^ Steven Crook (21 May 2019). "Making a Comeback from Morakot". Taiwan Business TOPICS. Retrieved 28 July 2019. This April, Kaohsiung's Namasia District enjoyed perhaps its largest-ever influx of visitors when firefly-chasing tourists made the most of a four-day weekend.
  4. ^ Christopher L. Knight; Glen Burgin; Yung-Fang Chen. "Living with typhoons: Disaster management in rural Taiwan". Royal Geographical Society. p. 105. Retrieved 28 July 2019. RJM: Yes, but they were renamed in 2008. Minzu has become Nangisalu, Mingchuan has become Maya and Mingshen 1 and 2 has become Dakanua. Previously they were considered very KMT so they wanted something a little less political, so they've reverted to aboriginal names. My wife voted. They gave her a free teapot for voting. It used to be considered Sanming County, now it's Namasia District. That changed as well.
  5. ^ Chen Ting-fang (October 2019). "Camphor Trees Recall Jiasian's Captivating History". Love Kaohsiung 愛·高雄. No. 4. Translated by Hou Ya-ting. Information Bureau, Kaohsiung City Government. p. 3. Long ago, poor transportation infrastructure in Kaohsiung's mountainous districts meant that those traveling between central Jiasian and what are now Taoyuan and Namasia districts often had to spend a night in Jiasian.
  6. ^ 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. 那瑪夏區 Namasia District 252.9895 850 3,146 1,614 1,532 105.35 3.70 12
  7. ^ Zeitoun, Elizabeth; Teng, Stacy F. (2014). The Position of Kanakanavu and Saaroa Within the Formosan Languages Revisited (PDF). The 14th International Symposium on Chinese Languages and Linguistics (IsCLL-14), June 4–9, 2014. Academia Sinica, Taipei. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2014-06-06. Retrieved 2015-07-16.