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The settlements of Hakka groups are named after "houses", and they are clustered in Taoyuan City, Hsinchu County and Miaoli County.

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In the early days of reclaiming in Taiwan, people often lived together because of blood ties, and the settlement often named after the family name plus home(家jia), house(屋wu), residence(宅zhai), and place(厝cuo). In the Hakka-inhabited areas, it is customary to use family name plus "house" as the name of the settlement (such as Liuwu and Zhongwu in Zhudong Town), or the new settlement after relocation is often called "Xinwu", or named as amount or structure of house commonly (such as "Sanzuowu", "Pingdingwu"). According to the statistics of the geographic names of Ministry of the Interior as of the end of October 2022, there are a total of 199 settlements named after "house" in Taiwan. Taoyuan City, Hsinchu County and Miaoli County, where the Hakka people gather, accounted for 168, especially Taoyuan City and Hsinchu County have 62 each, Miaoli County has 44, which demonstrate the characteristics of Hakka settlements naming adequately. If you want to know the above-mentioned geographic name information, you can look up website revision "Geographic Name Information Service Network" of Ministry of the Interior (https://gn.moi.gov.tw/), you are welcome to use it more.
 
open new window,The settlements of Hakka groups are named after "houses", and they are clustered in Taoyuan City.
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