Taipei City, Taiwan
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Taipei 臺北市 |
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| Special municipality | |||
| Taipei City | |||
Clockwise from top: Taipei skyline, Grand Hotel, Far Eastern Plaza, National Palace Museum, Chiang Kai-shek Memorial Hall, Jiantan Station
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| Etymology: Chinese: táiběi (Taiwan north) | |||
| Nickname(s): The City of Azaleas | |||
.svg) Taipei's location within the Taiwan islands |
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Satellite image of Taipei City |
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| Coordinates: 25°02′N 121°38′E / 25.033°N 121.633°ECoordinates: 25°02′N 121°38′E / 25.033°N 121.633°E | |||
| Country | Taiwan | ||
| Region | Northern Taiwan | ||
| Settled | 1709 | ||
| Seat | Xinyi District | ||
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| Government | |||
| • Type | Capital | ||
| • Mayor | Ko Wen-je (Ind.) | ||
| • Council | Taipei City Council | ||
| Area | |||
| • Capital | 271.80 km2 (104.94 sq mi) | ||
| • Water | 2.7 km2 (1.0 sq mi) 1.0% | ||
| • Urban | 1,140 km2 (440 sq mi) | ||
| Area rank | 16 out of 22 | ||
| Population (2016) | |||
| • Capital | 2,704,974 | ||
| • Rank | 4 out of 22 | ||
| • Density | 10,000/km2 (26,000/sq mi) | ||
| • Urban | 8,500,000 | ||
| • Urban density | 7,500/km2 (19,000/sq mi) | ||
| Time zone | National Standard Time (UTC+8) | ||
| Postal code | 100–116 | ||
| Area code(s) | (0)2 | ||
| ISO 3166 code | TW-TPE | ||
| Bird | Formosan blue magpie (Urocissa caerulea) | ||
| Flower | Azalea (Rhododendron nudiflorum) | ||
| Tree | Banyan (India laurel fig, Ficus microcarpa) | ||
| Website | english.gov.taipei (in English) | ||
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"Taipei" in Traditional (top) and Simplified (bottom) Chinese characters
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| Traditional Chinese | 臺北 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Simplified Chinese | 台北 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Literal meaning | "Tai[wan] North" | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Kanji | 台北 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Kana | たいほくし | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Kyūjitai | 臺北 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Transcriptions | |
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| Standard Mandarin | |
| Hanyu Pinyin | Táiběi |
| Bopomofo | ㄊㄞˊ ㄅㄟˇ |
| Gwoyeu Romatzyh | Tairbeei |
| Wade–Giles | T'ai2-pei3 |
| Tongyong Pinyin | Táiběi |
| MPS2 | Táiběi |
| IPA | [tʰǎi.pèi] |
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| Suzhounese | Dé-poh |
| Hakka | |
| Romanization | Thòi-pet |
| Yue: Cantonese | |
| Yale Romanization | Tòih-bāk |
| IPA | [tʰɔ̏ːy.pɐ́k̚] |
| Jyutping | Toi4-bak1 |
| Southern Min | |
| Hokkien POJ | Tâi-pak |
| Tâi-lô | Tâi-pak |
| Eastern Min | |
| Fuzhou BUC | Dài-báe̤k |
| Transcriptions | |
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| Romanization | Taihoku |
Taipei (/ˌtaɪˈpeɪ/), officially known as Taipei City, is the capital city and a special municipality of Taiwan (officially known as the Republic of China, "ROC"). Sitting at the northern tip of the island, Taipei City is an enclave of the municipality of New Taipei City. It is about 25 km (16 mi) southwest of the northern port city Keelung. Most of the city is located on the Taipei Basin, an ancient lakebed bounded by the two relatively narrow valleys of the Keelung and Xindian rivers, which join to form the Tamsui River along the city's western border. Formerly known as Taipeh-fu during Qing era and Taihoku under Japanese rule, Taipei became the capital of the Taiwan Province as part of the Republic of China in 1945 and recently has been the capital of the ROC since 1949, when the Kuomintang lost the mainland to the Communists in the Chinese Civil War.
The city proper is home to an estimated population of 2,704,810 in 2015, forming the core part of the Taipei–Keelung metropolitan area which includes the nearby cities of New Taipei and Keelung with a population of 7,047,559, the 40th most-populous urban area in the world—roughly one-third of Taiwanese citizens live in the metro district. The name "Taipei" can refer either to the whole metropolitan area or the city proper.
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