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Sandimen, Pingtung

Sandimen Township
Traditional Chinese 三地門鄉
Alternative Chinese name
Traditional Chinese 山地門

Coordinates: 22°43′N 120°39′E / 22.717°N 120.650°E / 22.717; 120.650

Sandimen Township is a mountain indigenous township in Pingtung County, Taiwan. The population of the township is majority Paiwan with a substantial Rukai minority.

Ethnic Chinese settlers adapted the original Paiwan name into Hokkien (Chinese: 山豬毛; Pe̍h-ōe-jī: Soaⁿ-ti-mn̂g; literally: "wild-boar bristle"; or ; Soaⁿ-tē-mn̂g; "mountains-gate"). Under Japanese rule the name was Sanchimon (Japanese: 山地門?). Following Taiwan's handover to China in 1945, the area became Sandimeng Township (三地盟鄉; Sāndìméng Xiāng) but the name was changed again in 1947 to Sandi Township (Chinese: 三地鄉; pinyin: Sāndì Xiāng; Pe̍h-ōe-jī: Sam-tē-hiong) but the Taiwanese pronunciation of Soaⁿ-tē-mn̂g continued to be commonly used. In August 1992, the township assumed its current name.


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