| Anping | |
| Official Name: | Anping District |
| Other Name: | An-peng |
| Settlement Type: | District |
| Subdivision Type: | Country |
| Subdivision Name: | Taiwan |
| Subdivision Type1: | Special municipality |
| Subdivision Name1: | Tainan |
| Leader Title: | District chief |
| Leader Name: | Lin Guo-ming (Chinese: 林國明)[1] |
| Area Land Km2: | 11.07 |
| Population Total: | 68465 |
| Population As Of: | March 2023 |
| Population Density Km2: | auto |
| Timezone1: | National Standard Time |
| Utc Offset1: | +8 |
| Postal Code Type: | Postal code |
| Postal Code: | 708 |
| Area Code: | 06 |
| Anping | |
| Pic: | File:安平區公所.JPG |
| Piccap: | Anping District office |
| P: | Ānpíng |
| W: | An-p'ing |
| Poj: | An-pêng |
Anping District is a district of Tainan, Taiwan. In March 2012, it was named one of the Top 10 Small Tourist Towns by the Tourism Bureau of Taiwan. It is home to 64,408 people according to the 2020 census. [2] [3]
The older place name of Tayouan derives from the ethnonym of a nearby Taiwanese aboriginal tribe, and was written by the Dutch and Portuguese variously as Taiouwang, Tayowan, etc.[4] In his translations of Dutch records, missionary William Campbell used the variant Tayouan and wrote that Taoan and Taiwan also occur. As Dutch spelling varied greatly at the time (see: History of Dutch orthography), other variants may be seen.[5] The name was also transliterated into Chinese characters variously as Chinese: {{linktext|臺窩灣, Chinese: {{linktext|大灣, Chinese: {{linktext|臺員, Chinese: {{linktext|大員, Chinese: {{linktext|大圓 and Chinese: 梯窩灣.[4]
After the Dutch were ousted by Koxinga, Han immigrants renamed the area "Anping" after the Anping Bridge in Quanzhou, Fujian. Soon after Qing rule was established in 1683, the name "Taiwan" (Chinese: {{linktext|臺灣) was officially used to refer to the whole island with the establishment of Taiwan Prefecture.
The history of Anping dates back to the 17th century, when the Dutch East India Company occupied a "high sandy down" called Tayouan and built Fort Zeelandia. The Dutch moved their headquarters to Tayouan after leaving the Pescadores in 1624. Due to silting, the islet has joined with mainland Taiwan.
Koxinga's army brought an end to the Dutch colonial period via the Siege of Fort Zeelandia.
In the Japanese period, the history of trade between China and Japan unfolded at Anping. According to the 1904 census, the city's population was 5,972.
The district consists of Jincheng, Yuguang, Jianping, Yiping, Huaping, Pingtong, Wenping, Guoping, Yuping, Yizai, Pingan, Tianfei and Wangcheng Village.[6]