Indigenous Area (Taiwan)

Indigenous Areas (Chinese: 原住民族地區; pinyin: yuánzhùmínzú dìqū; Pe̍h-ōe-jī: Goân-chū bîn-cho̍k tē-khu) are the administrative divisions in Taiwan with significant populations of Taiwanese indigenous peoples.

These areas are granted higher level of local autonomy.

Currently there are 55 such divisions.

[1] On 31 October 2001, the Indigenous Peoples Employment Rights Protection Act was promulgated.

In order to implement the provisions of the act, the Council of Indigenous Peoples designated 30 mountain indigenous townships and districts and 25 townships and cities as indigenous areas.