Editing Kaohsiung (section)

===Republic of China===
After control of Taiwan was [[History of Taiwan since 1945|handed over from Japan]] to the government of the [[Republic of China]] on 25 October 1945, Kaohsiung City and [[Kaohsiung County]] were established as a [[Provincial city (Taiwan)|provincial city]] and a [[County (Taiwan)|county]] of [[Taiwan Province]] respectively on 25 December 1945. The official romanization of the name came to be "Kaohsiung", based on the [[Wade–Giles]] romanization of the [[Mandarin Chinese|Mandarin]] reading of the [[kanji]] name.<ref>[http://taiwanjournal.nat.gov.tw/ct.asp?xItem=23064&CtNode=122 What's in changing a name?] {{webarchive |url=https://archive.today/20070630101000/http://taiwanjournal.nat.gov.tw/ct.asp?xItem=23064&CtNode=122 |date=30 June 2007 }} Taiwan Journal Vol. XXVI No. 19 May 15, 2009 "...while name Kaohsiung is technically the Mandarin pronunciation of the Japanese written version of a Holo Taiwanese rendition of an old aboriginal name..."</ref> Kaohsiung City then consisted of 10 [[District (Taiwan)|districts]], which were [[Gushan District|Gushan]], [[Lingya District|Lianya]] (renamed "Lingya" in 1952), [[Nanzih District|Nanzih]], [[Qianjin District, Kaohsiung|Cianjin]], [[Cianjhen District|Cianjhen]], [[Cijin District, Kaohsiung|Cijin]], [[Sanmin District|Sanmin]], [[Sinsing District, Kaohsiung|Sinsing]], [[Yancheng District, Kaohsiung|Yancheng]], and [[Zuoying District|Zuoying]].

During this time, Kaohsiung developed rapidly. The port, badly damaged in [[World War II]], was restored. It also became a fishing port for boats sailing to Filipino and Indonesian waters. Largely because of its climate, Kaohsiung overtook [[Keelung]] as Taiwan's major port. Kaohsiung also surpassed Tainan to become the second largest city of Taiwan in the late 1970s and Kaohsiung City was upgraded from a [[Provincial city (Taiwan)|provincial city]] to [[special municipality (Taiwan)|special municipality]] on 1 July 1979, by the [[Executive Yuan]] with a total of 11 districts.<ref>{{cite news |date=1 February 2011 |url=https://taiwantoday.tw/news.php?unit=4,29,31,45&post=6187 |title=Rezoning Taiwan |publisher=Taiwan Today |access-date=9 December 2020 |archive-date=12 January 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210112165942/https://taiwantoday.tw/news.php?unit=4,29,31,45&post=6187 |url-status=live }}</ref> The additional district is [[Siaogang District]], which was annexed from Siaogang Township of [[Kaohsiung County]].

The [[Kaohsiung Incident]], where the government suppressed a commemoration of International [[Human Rights Day]], occurred on 10 December 1979. Since then, Kaohsiung gradually grew into a political center of the [[Pan-Green Coalition|Pan-Green]] population of Taiwan, in opposition to [[Taipei]] where the majority population is [[Kuomintang]] supporters.

[[File:Kaohsiung-Tainan before and after 2010.svg|thumb|Map of Kaohsiung City before and after 25 December 2010]]
On 25 December 2010, Kaohsiung City merged with [[Kaohsiung County]] to form a larger [[Special municipality (Taiwan)|special municipality]] with administrative centers in [[Lingya District]] and [[Fongshan District]].<ref>{{Cite web |author=''Taiwan News'' Staff Writer |date=29 June 2009 |title=Taiwan government approves merger and upgrade of Tainan City and County |url=https://www.taiwannews.com.tw/en/news/989390 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220122140014/https://www.taiwannews.com.tw/en/news/989390 |archive-date=22 January 2022 |website=[[Taiwan News]] |access-date=5 October 2022}}</ref>

On 31 July 2014, a series of [[2014 Kaohsiung gas explosions|gas explosions]] occurred in the [[Cianjhen District|Cianjhen]] and [[Lingya District]]s of the city, killing 31 and injuring more than 300. Five roads were destroyed in an area of nearly {{cvt|20|km2|sqmi|abbr=off}} near the city center. It was the largest gas explosion in Taiwan's modern history.<ref name="KaohsiungExplosions">{{cite news |title=Many dead in Taiwan city gas blasts |url=http://www.taiwansnews.net/index.php/sid/224358099/scat/0dd057261bcc461b/ht/Many-dead-in-Taiwan-city-gas-blasts |access-date=2 August 2014 |publisher=Taiwan's News.Net |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140808043517/http://www.taiwansnews.net/index.php/sid/224358099/scat/0dd057261bcc461b/ht/Many-dead-in-Taiwan-city-gas-blasts |archive-date=8 August 2014 |url-status=dead}}</ref>