It is an urban township; the 2000 census found 29,167 people in the township.

Hengchun is also the only urban township in the southern part of Pingtung County.

In addition, a town with a population of 1,000 or more may vote at its annual town meeting to become an urban township.

The greatest addition to powers of an urban township is that of economic development and public works.

But given the tensions that still simmer on farms and in urban townships, that will be no simple task.

In urban townships, however, even carefully controlled events draw sparse crowds.

It was developed in 1972 as a new urban township of Mumbai, and is the largest planned city in the world.

There are five different methods in which a township may be designated an urban township by the state.

Often, urban townships use this authority for greater economic development.

The new message is already simmering in the urban townships.