Nangang

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Alternative meaning: Nangang District, Harbin

**Nangang District**
**南港區**
Image:Nangang seal.png Nangang District seal
Old name: none
Region	Eastern Taipei
Director	Yung-cheng Lee (李永成)
Area	Ranked 5th of 12
Total	21.8424 km²
Population	Ranked 12th of 12
Total	112,743
Density	5,152/km²
Villages (里 li):	19
Neighborhoods (鄰 lin):	423

Nángǎng (Hanyu Pinyin) (Chinese: 南港, WG: Nan-kang, Tongyong Pinyin: Nangang) is a southeastern district of Taipei. It is the seat of the Academia Sinica and Nankang Software Park (NKSP).

1 Administration
2 History
3 Miscellaneous
4 External links

[edit] Administration

There are 19 municipal villages (里 li) in Nangang. The following placenames are romanized in Hanyu Pinyin, with Wade-Giles in parentheses, which is the legacy standard spelling:

Zhongnan (中南 Chungnan)
Nangang (南港)
Sanchong (三重)
Dongxin (東新 Tunghsin)
Dongmin (東明)
Xinguang (新光 Hsinkuang)
Xixin (西新 Hsihsin)
Yucheng (玉成)
Hecheng (合成)
Chengfu (成福)
Wanfu (萬福)
Hongfu (鴻福)
Baifu (百福)
Renfu (仁福)
Lianchen (聯成)
Jiuzhuang (舊庄 Chiuchuang)
Zhongyan (中研 Chungyen)
Jiuru (九如)
Xinfu (新富 Hsinfu)

The villages contain 423 neighbourhoods (鄰 lin).

Zhongyan, which was part of Jiuzhuang until December 1974, contains the Academia Sinica.

[edit] History

Nangang was settled in 1735 by Fujianese, especially in the present villages of Nangang, Sanchong, and Dongxin. Until the Japanese Occupation, the placename was Great Jia'na Fortress, Nangang-Sanchong Port (大加吶堡南港三重埔). Nangang, literally "Southern Port", refers to its position on Keelung River.

In 1920, Nangang was part of Neihu Hamlet, Qixing Prefecture, Taipei District (台北州七星郡內湖庄). In December 1945, the administrative levels were changed to Neihu Township, Qixing District, Taipei County (台北縣七星區內湖鄉). July 6 the following year, as proposed by Que Shankeng (闕山坑), Nangang was separated into its own township. In 1967, it became a district of Taipei.