According to statistics published in 1986, the west coast from Nankan in Taoyuan County in the north to the mouth of the Tsengwen River near Tainan in the south still has over 50,000 hectares of tidal land, which is the envy of other nations.
根據一九八六年的統計，西海岸由桃園南崁一路到曾文溪口，尚累積有令外人豔羨的五萬多公頃海埔地。