Agricultural products of Yunlin County include pomelo, tea leaves, suan cai, papaya and melon.

[3] During Japanese rule, Yunlin (as Unrin) County was again abolished due to the resistance from the local people and combined with Tainan Prefecture.

However, Toroku Town (斗六街, modern-day Douliu) continued to be an important city of central Taiwan.

The Yunlin area remained under Tainan County after the handover of Taiwan from Japan to the Republic of China on 25 October 1945.

[5] Yunlin County is located in the central-south portion of western Taiwan and is at the northern tip of the Chianan Plain.

[7] In 2015, the county experienced 75% of Taiwan's total land subsidence, over an area of 600 km2 (230 sq mi) due to its groundwater overuse.

The majority seats of Yunlin County Council is independent but headed by speaker Shen Tsung-lung (Chinese: 沈宗隆; pinyin: Shěn Zōnglóng) of the Kuomintang.

In the 2011 National Games at Changhua, Yunlin ranked 11th out of the 22 counties and cities of Taiwan, with 10 gold, 8 silver and 8 bronze medals.

Among the agricultural products are coffee, hard clams, horseshoe calms, Taiwan tilapia, shaddock, soy sauce, pickled cabbage, peanuts and sesame oil.

The county government has been aggressively helping the dairy farmers to upgrade their feeding techniques, and also set up modern meat-packing facilities.

Tounan: Fried buns Tuku: Angelica Duck Noodles, a traditional tonic snack.

Commissioned in July 1999, it has a capacity of 4,200 MW and is the third largest coal-fired power plant in Taiwan.

However, in 2016 the Hushan Dam was opened in Douliu City in which its reservoir will soon supply the water needs for the county residence.

It features a large courtyard landscape of high mountain and stone forests, matched with scenic surroundings.

It has a Japanese Zen-style like Kenroku Garden and a simple style of ecological landscape pond.

The venue has a professional guided introduction and many thousand-year-old cypress artworks, as well as Chenglin's exclusive collection of the world's largest 3,000-year-old sacred wood.

So the founder decided to build a leisure farm and open the park for free to encourage everyone to get close to nature.

Yunlin County houses the Chenglong Wetlands, Erlun Sports Park, Penglai Waterfall and Ten Thousand Year Gorge.

Due to the small catchment area, the Tongtou River Barrage was built in Qingshui Creek.

Taiwan High Speed Rail Yunlin Station is located at Huwei Township.

Taiwan Railways Administration has stations at Linnei, Shiliu, Douliu, Dounan and Shigui.