Taoyuan City
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Taoyuan 桃園市 |
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From left to right, top to bottom: China Airlines passenger plane on the Taoyuan International Airport, Taoyuan district , Yongan Fishing Port, HSR Taoyuan Station, Daxi Old Street of Baroque architecture, Shihmen Reservoir, Small Wulai Waterfall
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| Coordinates: 24°59′28.6″N 121°18′51.58″E / 24.991278°N 121.3143278°ECoordinates: 24°59′28.6″N 121°18′51.58″E / 24.991278°N 121.3143278°E | |||
| Country | Taiwan | ||
| Region | Northern Taiwan | ||
| Seat | Taoyuan District | ||
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| Government | |||
| • Type | Taoyuan City Government | ||
| • Mayor | Cheng Wen-tsan (DPP) | ||
| • Deputy Mayor | Chiu Tai-san | ||
| Area | |||
| • Special municipality | 1,220.95 km2 (471.41 sq mi) | ||
| • Urban | 1,140 km2 (440 sq mi) | ||
| Area rank | 14 of 22 | ||
| Population (2016) | |||
| • Special municipality | 2,116,988 | ||
| • Rank | 5 of 22 | ||
| • Density | 1,700/km2 (4,500/sq mi) | ||
| • Urban | 8,500,000 | ||
| • Urban density | 7,500/km2 (19,000/sq mi) | ||
| Time zone | National Standard Time (UTC+8) | ||
| Postal code | 320-338 | ||
| ISO 3166 code | TW-TAO | ||
| Bird | Formosan blue magpie (Urocissa caerulea) | ||
| Flower | Peach blossom | ||
| Tree | Peach tree | ||
| Website | www.tycg.gov.tw (English) | ||
| Taoyuan, Taiwan | |||||||||||||||
| Traditional Chinese | 桃園市 | ||||||||||||||
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| Simplified Chinese | 桃园市 | ||||||||||||||
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| Transcriptions | |
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| Standard Mandarin | |
| Hanyu Pinyin | Táoyuán Shì |
| Wade–Giles | T'ao-yüan Shih |
| Tongyong Pinyin | Táoyuán Shìh |
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| Hokkien POJ | Thô-hn̂g-chhī |
Taoyuan (Chinese: 桃園市; pinyin: Táoyuán Shì), is a special municipality in northwestern Taiwan, neighboring New Taipei, Hsinchu County, and Yilan County. Taoyuan District is the seat of the municipal government and that which, along with Zhongli District, forms a large metropolitan area. Taoyuan developed from a satellite city of Taipei metropolitan area to be the fourth-largest metropolitan area, and fifth-largest populated city in Taiwan. Since commuting to the Taipei metropolitan area is easy, Taoyuan has seen the fastest population growth of all cities in Taiwan.
"Taoyuan" means "peach garden," since the area used to have many peach blossom trees. The city is home to many industrial parks and tech company headquarters. Taipei Taoyuan International Airport, which serves the capital, Taipei and the rest of northern Taiwan, is located in this city.
The city of Taoyuan has been elevated to special municipality status since 2014 from the original Taoyuan County. At the same time, the former county-controlled city of Taoyuan was also promoted to Taoyuan District within the new municipality.
In ancient times, the Taoyuan plateau was the home of the Taiwanese plains aborigines. In prehistory, the Ketagalan people settled in Nankan. In the early years of Dutch colonization, Spanish colonization, and Zheng He of the Ming Dynasty, there were no large-scale cultivation or industrial activities. During the Qing era, a number of people from Fujian Province and Guangdong province began to immigrate into present-day Taoyuan to develop and farm the land. They planted peach trees, which, when fully bloomed in spring, were so beautiful that the people named the land Toahong (Chinese: 桃仔園; pinyin: Táozǐyuán; Pe̍h-ōe-jī: Thô-á-hn̂g; literally: "peach orchard").
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