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Tapei

Taipei
臺北市
Special municipality
Taipei City
Clockwise from top: Taipei skyline, Grand Hotel, Far Eastern Plaza, National Palace Museum, Chiang Kai-shek Memorial Hall, Jiantan Station
Clockwise from top: Taipei skyline, Grand Hotel, Far Eastern Plaza, National Palace Museum, Chiang Kai-shek Memorial Hall, Jiantan Station
Flag of Taipei
Flag
Official logo of Taipei
Logo
Etymology: Chinese: táiběi (Taiwan north)
Nickname(s): The City of Azaleas
Taipei's location within the Taiwan islands
Taipei's location within the Taiwan islands

Satellite image of Taipei City
Coordinates: 25°02′N 121°38′E / 25.033°N 121.633°E / 25.033; 121.633Coordinates: 25°02′N 121°38′E / 25.033°N 121.633°E / 25.033; 121.633
Country Republic of China (Taiwan)
Region Northern Taiwan
Settled 1709
Seat Xinyi District
Districts
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)
Taipei
Taipei (Chinese characters).svg
"Taipei" in Traditional (top) and Simplified (bottom) Chinese characters
Chinese name
Traditional Chinese 臺北 or 台北
Simplified Chinese 台北
Literal meaning "Tai[wan] North"
Japanese name
Kanji 台北
Kana たいほくし
Kyūjitai 臺北

Taipei (/ˌtˈp/), 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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