Tainan County is situated at the center of the largest plain-Chianan Plain-in southwest Taiwan. Located at the foot of a hill and beside the sea, Tainan County rises high in the east and becomes flat in the west. It is sited in the front area of the Central Range to the east and borders the Taiwan Strait to the west. It adjoins Chiayi County to its north and neighbors Tainan City and Kaohsiung County to the south. With a total area of 2,016 kilometers, Tainan is the ninth largest county in Taiwan. However, it is the largest county in terms of an arable area of more than 90,000 acres and the eighth largest county in terms of the population of 1.1 million.

Tainan County is located to the south of the Tropic of Cancer. It is a subtropical area and has abundant agricultural products. Main crops include rice, sugar cane, and grains. Special local products are many and diverse. Tainan County has larger areas of paddy fields, dry farmland, fishing fields, salt fields, lotus fields, and water caltrop fields than any other county in Taiwan.

Before Taiwan was returned to the Republic of China in 1945, Tainan County was divided into the northern and southern areas by Tsengwen River. The northern area included Hsinying, Peimen, and Tsengwen districts. The southern area encompassed Hsinhua and Hsinfeng districts. After Taiwan's retrocession, Tainan County was reorganized into 31 rural townships, urban townships, and county municipalities as well as 533 villages and boroughs

The Tainan County Government is located at Hsinying in the northern area. Yungkang in the southern area is the most populated district in Tainan County as a result of prosperous industrial and commercial development …more