Pushpin Map: | Taiwan |
Coordinates: | 24.6639°N 121.0681°W |
Official Name: | Beipu Township 北埔鄉 |
Subdivision Type: | Country |
Subdivision Type1: | Province |
Subdivision Type2: | County |
Subdivision Name: | Republic of China |
Subdivision Name1: | Taiwan |
Subdivision Name2: | Hsinchu |
Government Type: | Rural township |
Area Total Km2: | 50.6676 |
Population As Of: | March 2023 |
Population Total: | 8633 |
Population Density Km2: | auto |
Other Name: | Hoppo |
Beipu Township (; Hakka: Pet-phû-hiông) is a rural township in Hsinchu County, Taiwan. Beipu is well known in Taiwan as a center of Hakka culture, especially for production of dongfang meiren tea and its special Hakkanese blends of tea and nuts called lei cha.
The town was the scene of the 1907 Hoppo Uprising against Japanese rule of Taiwan when insurgents of both Hakka and indigenous Saisiyat extraction attacked Japanese officials and their families. In retaliation, Japanese military and police killed more than 100 Hakka people, the majority of whom were young men from Neidaping (內大坪), a small village in the mountainous southern part of the township.[1]
As of March 2023, Beipu had a population of 8,633, of whom 98 percent were Hakka.
The township comprises nine villages: Beipu, Nanxing, Dahu, Puwei, Shuiji, Nanpu, Dalin, Nankeng, and Waiping.