Beimen District

23°17′16.89″N120°7′30.71″E / 23.2880250°N 120.1251972°E / 23.2880250; 120.1251972

Beimen District (Chinese:北門區; pinyin:Běimén Qū; Pe̍h-ōe-jī:Pak-mn̂g-khu) is a coastal district of about 10,191 residents in Tainan, Taiwan.^[1]

After the handover of Taiwan from Japan to the Republic of China in 1945, Beimen was organized as a rural township of Tainan County. On 25 December 2010, Tainan County merged with Tainan City and Beimen was upgraded to a district of the city.

Beimen is divided into Beimen, Yonglong, Yonghua, Yugang, Baoji, Tungbi, Kunjiang, Shuangchun, Jinhu, Cian, Sanguang, Zhongshu and Renli Villages.

• Beimen Crystal Church
• Beimen Island Presbyterian Church
• Jingzaijiao Tile-paved Salt Fields
• Jishui River
• Taiwan Blackfoot Disease Socio-Medical Service Memorial House
• Nankunshen Temple
• Shuangchun Seashore Park
• Beimen Sports Park
• Luzhugou Fishing Harbor

Provincial Highway 84 connects the district to National freeway 1 and National Freeway 3. Provincial Highway 61 also runs through the district.

• Wang King-ho, former physician
• Wu Mi-cha, Director of National Palace Museum