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{{Short description|Capital city of Taiwan}}

{{Infobox political division
| name                     = Taipei City
| official_name            = 
| other_name               = Tai-pak, Taipeh, Taihoku
| native_name              = {{lang|zh-Hant-TW|臺北市}}{{Efn native lang|tw|name=word1
 |t=臺北市
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 |m=Tâi-pak Tshī
 |s=Tǒi-běd Sii
 |h=Toi-bed Shi<sup>+</sup>}}
| settlement_type          = Capital city
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| photo2b = 世界最美總統府.jpg
| photo3a = Chiang Kai-shek memorial amk.jpg
| photo3b = Xiao You Keng Fumarole.jpg
| photo4a = Taipei Taiwan Mengjia-Longshan-Temple-00.jpg
| photo4b = NationalPalace MuseumFrontView.jpg
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| image_caption            = '''Clockwise from top:'''<br /> Taipei 101 in the center of Taipei skyline, Presidential Office, [[Earth:Qixing Mountain (Taipei)|Qixing Mountain]], National Palace Museum, Bangka Lungshan Temple, Chiang Kai-shek Memorial Hall, Ximending
| image_flag               = Flag of Taipei City.svg
| image_seal               = Emblem of Taipei City.svg
| seal_type                = Logo
| etymology                = {{zh|w=Tʻai²-pei³|l=Taiwan north}}
| nickname                 = The City of Azaleas
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| image_map2               = Taiwan ROC political division map Taipei City (2010).svg
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| subdivision_type         = Country
| subdivision_name         = {{ROC-TW}}
| established_title        = Settled
| established_date         = 1709
| established_title1       = Renamed to Taihoku 
| established_date1        = 17 April 1895
| established_title2       = Provinicial city status
| established_date2        = 25 October 1945
| established_title3       = Provisional national capital 
|established_date3        = 7 December 1949
| established_title4       = Reconstituted as a Yuan-controlled municipality
| established_date4        = 1 July 1967
| capital_type = City seat
| capital =  Xinyi District
| largest_settlement = Daan District
| largest_settlement_type = district 
| admin_center_type               = Districts
| admin_center                    = 12
| legislature           = Taipei City Council
| leader_party             =
| leader_title1             = Mayor
| leader_name1              = Chiang Wan-an (KMT)
| iso_code                 = TW-TPE
| total_type               = Special municipality
| area_footnotes           = <ref>{{cite web |script-title=zh:《中華民國統計資訊網》縣市重要統計指標查詢系統網 |url=http://statdb.dgbas.gov.tw/pxweb/Dialog/statfile9.asp |access-date=13 June 2016 |language=zh |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160612002357/http://statdb.dgbas.gov.tw/pxweb/Dialog/statfile9.asp |archive-date=12 June 2016 |url-status=dead}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=Demographia World Urban Areas PDF |date=April 2016 |url=http://www.demographia.com/db-worldua.pdf |publisher=Demographia |access-date=6 June 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180503021711/http://www.demographia.com/db-worldua.pdf |archive-date=3 May 2018 |url-status=live}}</ref>
| national_representation = National representation 
| national_representation_type1 = Legislative Yuan
| national_representation1 = 8 of 113 constituencies 
| area_km2           = 271.80
| area_water_km2           = 2.7
| area_water_percent       = 1.0
| area_urban_km2           = 1059
| area_rank                = 16th
| area_rank_link = List of administrative divisions of Taiwan
| population_estimate         = 2,494,813 (4th)<hr>9,078,000 (urban)<ref>{{cite web |title=Demographia World Urban Areas PDF |url=http://www.demographia.com/db-worldua.pdf |publisher=Demographia |access-date=2021-12-04 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180503021711/http://www.demographia.com/db-worldua.pdf |archive-date=3 May 2018 |url-status=live}}</ref>
| population_rank_link = List of administrative divisions of Taiwan
| population_estimate_year         = March 2023
| population_density_km2   =
| population_total         =
| population_density_urban_km2 =
| GDP_PPP             = $65,539
| GDP_PPP_year        = 2016
| GDP_PPP_rank        = 1st
| GDP_PPP_per_capita  = 
| GDP_PPP_per_capita_rank = 
| GDP_nominal         = NT$990,292
| GDP_nominal_year    = 2016
| GDP_nominal_rank    = 1st
| GDP_nominal_per_capita = 
| GDP_nominal_per_capita_rank = 
| GDP_nominal_rank_link = Economy of Taiwan#Economy by region
| population_estimate_rank = 4th
| timezone                 = National Standard Time
| utc_offset               = +8
| postal_code_type         = Postal code
| postal_code              = 100–116
| calling_code                = (0)2
| website                  = {{ubl|{{URL|https://www.gov.taipei/|gov.taipei}} {{in lang|zh}}|{{URL|https://english.gov.taipei/|en.gov.taipei}} {{in lang|en}}}}
{{Infobox place symbols
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| bird          = Formosan blue magpie (''Urocissa caerulea'')
| flower        = [[Biology:Azalea|Azalea]] (''Rhododendron nudiflorum'')
| tree        = [[Biology:Banyan|Banyan]] (India laurel fig, ''Ficus microcarpa'')
}}
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{{Infobox Chinese
| pic = Taipei (Chinese characters).svg
| piccap = "Taipei" in Traditional (top) and Simplified (bottom) Chinese characters
| picsize = 100px
| title = Taipei City
| l = "Tai[wan] North"
| bpmf = ㄊㄞˊ&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;ㄅㄟˇ&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;ㄕˋ
| w = Tʻai<sup>2</sup>-pei<sup>3</sup> Shih<sup>4</sup>
| p = Táiběi Shì
| tp = Táiběi Shìh
| mps = Táiběi Shr̀
| gr = Tairbeei Shyh
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| myr = Táiběi Shr̀
| poj = Tâi-pak-chhī
| tl = Tâi-pak-tshī
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| phfs = Thòi-pet-sṳ
| y = Tòihbāk Síh
| j = Toi4bak1 Si5
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| buc = Dài-báe̤k chê
| suz = Dé-poh
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'''Taipei''' (臺北 {{IPAc-en|ˌ|t|aɪ|ˈ|p|eɪ|audio=LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-Taipei.wav}}),<ref>[http://www.dictionary.com/browse/taipei "Taipei"] {{Webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171208070725/http://www.dictionary.com/browse/taipei |date=8 December 2017 }}. ''Random House Webster's Unabridged Dictionary''.</ref> officially '''Taipei City''',{{Efn native lang|tw|name=word1}} and previously known as '''Taihoku''' from 1895 to 1945 is the capital{{efn|The Constitution of the Republic of China does not stipulate any city, including Taipei or its pre-1949 capital, Nanjing, as the ''de jure'' capital of the Republic of China. 
However, Taipei has been designated the official [[Earth:Seat of government|seat of central government]] by a decree, thus making it the ''de facto'' capital.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.taiwannews.com.tw/en/news/2359865 |title=Taipei is Republic of China's capital, minister said |author=Tseng Ying-yu, Sofia Wu |website=Central News Agency |date=4 December 2013 |access-date=13 October 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180920015224/https://www.taiwannews.com.tw/en/news/2359865 |archive-date=20 September 2018 |url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.taipeitimes.com/News/front/archives/2013/12/04/2003578264/2 |title=Since the implementation of the Act Governing Principles for Editing Geographical Educational Texts (地理敎科書編審原則) in 1997, the guiding principle for all maps in geographical textbooks was that Taipei was to be marked as the capital with a label stating: "Location of the Central Government" |date=4 December 2013 |access-date=1 November 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191101013333/http://www.taipeitimes.com/News/front/archives/2013/12/04/2003578264/2 |archive-date=1 November 2019 |url-status=live}}</ref><ref name=gov>{{cite web |url=https://www.taiwan.gov.tw/about.php |title=2020-2021 TAIWAN at a glance |publisher=Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Republic of China (Taiwan) |date=2021 |access-date=31 December 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211117020655/https://www.taiwan.gov.tw/about.php |archive-date=17 November 2021 |url-status=live}}</ref> Despite having no actual control, the {{wipe|China}} considers Taipei to be the capital of its claimed Taiwan Province.}} and a special municipality of the Republic of China, commonly known as Taiwan.<ref name=gov/><ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.roc-taiwan.org/us_en/post/24.html |title=Taiwan-U.S. Relations |publisher=Taipei Economic and Cultural Representative Office in the United States |date=4 December 2021 |access-date=31 December 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211125155623/https://www.roc-taiwan.org/us_en/post/24.html |archive-date=25 November 2021 |url-status=live}}</ref> Located in Northern Taiwan, Taipei City is an enclave of the municipality of New Taipei City that sits about {{cvt|25|km|mi|abbr=on}} southwest of the northern port city of Keelung. Most of the city rests on the Taipei Basin, an ancient lakebed. The basin is bounded by the relatively narrow valleys of the Keelung and Xindian rivers, which join to form the Tamsui River along the city's western border.<ref name="tcggeo">{{cite web |url=http://english.taipei.gov.tw/TCG/index.jsp?categid=36&recordid=9152 |title=Taipei City Government: Home – I. Geographic Overview |publisher=Taipei City Government |date=23 October 2006 |access-date=4 August 2009 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131209004331/http://english.taipei.gov.tw/TCG/index.jsp?categid=36&recordid=9152 |archive-date=9 December 2013 |url-status=dead}}</ref>

The municipality of Taipei is home to an estimated population of 2,494,813 (March 2023),<ref name="population">{{cite web |url=http://sowf.moi.gov.tw/stat/month/m1-07.xls |script-title=zh:鄉鎮市區人口及按都會區統計 |publisher=Taiwan Ministry of Interior |date=December 2015 |access-date=11 December 2016 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131209091210/http://sowf.moi.gov.tw/stat/month/m1-07.xls |archive-date=9 December 2013}}</ref> forming the core part of the Taipei–Keelung metropolitan area, also known as "Greater Taipei", which includes the nearby cities of New Taipei and Keelung with a population of 7,047,559,<ref name="population" /><ref>{{cite web |url=http://eng.stat.gov.tw/ct.asp?xItem=4597&ctNode=1627 |title=Methods and Term Definitions |publisher=Directorate General of Budget, Accounting and Statistics |access-date=4 August 2009 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181212071728/https://eng.stat.gov.tw/ct.asp?xItem=4597&ctNode=1627 |archive-date=12 December 2018 |url-status=live}}</ref> the 40th most-populous urban area in the world—roughly one-third of Taiwanese citizens live in the metro areas. The name "Taipei" can refer either to the whole metropolitan area or just the municipality alone. Taipei has been the political center of the island since 1887, when it first became the seat of Taiwan Province by the Qing dynasty until 1895 and again from 1945 to 1956 by the ROC government,{{efn|The Taiwan Provincial Government subsequently moved to [[Place:Zhongxing New Village|Zhongxing New Village]] in Nantou County until it was dissolved in 2018.}} with an [[Philosophy:Interregnum|interregnum]] from 1895 to 1945 as the seat of the Government-General of Taiwan during the Japanese rule. The city has been the national seat of the ROC central government since 1949, it became the nation's special municipality (then known as Yuan-controlled municipality) on 1 July 1967 from provincial city status.

Taipei is the economic, political, educational and cultural center of Taiwan and one of the world's major global cities. Considered to be a [[Global city|global city]] and rated as an Alpha − City by GaWC,<ref>{{cite web |title=The World According to GaWC 2020 |url=https://www.lboro.ac.uk/gawc/world2020t.html |website=GaWC - Research Network |publisher=Globalization and World Cities |access-date=26 August 2020}}</ref> Taipei is part of a major high-tech industrial area.<ref>{{cite news |url=http://old.seattletimes.com/html/businesstechnology/2020821044_taiwansamsungxml.html |title=Taiwan tech industry faces up to South Korea's Samsung |newspaper=The Seattle Times |date=April 2013 |access-date=25 August 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170825064955/http://old.seattletimes.com/html/businesstechnology/2020821044_taiwansamsungxml.html |archive-date=25 August 2017 |url-status=dead}}</ref> Railways, highways, airports and bus lines connect Taipei with all parts of the island. The city is served by two airports – Songshan and Taoyuan. The municipality is home to architectural and cultural landmarks, including Taipei 101 (formerly the tallest building in the world), Chiang Kai-shek Memorial Hall, Dalongdong Baoan Temple, Hsing Tian Kong, Lungshan Temple of Manka, National Palace Museum, Presidential Office Building, Taipei Guest House and Zhinan Temple. Shopping districts including Ximending as well as several night markets dispersed throughout the city. Natural features include Maokong, [[Earth:Yangmingshan|Yangmingshan]] and hot springs.

In English-language news reports, the name ''Taipei'' often serves as a [[Biology:Synecdoche|synecdoche]] referring to central government of Taiwan. Due to the ambiguous political status of Taiwan internationally, the term ''Chinese Taipei'' is also frequently used as a synonym for the entire country, as when Taiwan's governmental representatives participate in international organizations or Taiwan's athletes compete in international sporting events, including the [[Social:Olympic Games|Olympics]].

==Names==

The spellings ''Taipei'' and ''Tʻai-pei'' derive from the [[Social:Wade–Giles|Wade–Giles]] romanization ''Tʻai²-pei³''<ref>{{cite book |last=Skinner |first=G. William |title=Modern Chinese society:an analytical bibliography |publisher=Stanford University Press |year=1973 |page=[https://archive.org/details/modernchinesesoc3skin/page/55 55] |isbn=0-8047-0753-7 |url-access=registration |url=https://archive.org/details/modernchinesesoc3skin/page/55}}</ref> which means ''the North of Taiwan'' in Chinese. The name could be also romanized as ''Táiběi'' according to Hanyu Pinyin and [[Social:Tongyong Pinyin|Tongyong Pinyin]].<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.pinyin.info/taiwan/place_names.html |title=Taiwan place names |access-date=15 September 2020 |website=Pīnyīn.info |language=zh-tw,en |quote=<br />鄉鎮市區別 Hanyu Pinyin (recommended) Hanyu Pinyin (with tones) Tongyong Pinyin old forms<br />...<br />台北市 Taibei Táiběi Taibei Taipei |archive-date=16 September 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200916131032/http://www.pinyin.info/taiwan/place_names.html |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=https://international.thenewslens.com/article/84177 |title=OPINION: Hanyu Pinyin Should Not Be Political, Kaohsiung |access-date=15 September 2020 |date=27 November 2017 |author=Eryk Smith |quote=The capital will not see its name re-christened "Taibei" anytime soon and that's fine |archive-date=16 September 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200916185047/https://international.thenewslens.com/article/84177 |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ZsyRAgAAQBAJ |title=Linguistic Landscape: Expanding the Scenery |publisher=[[Company:Routledge|Routledge]] |date=2009 |isbn=978-0-203-93096-0 |editor=Elana Shohamy, Durk Gorter |quote=However, I do use the commonly rendered "Taipei," instead of "Taibei" (Táiběi). |page=[https://books.google.com/books?id=ZsyRAgAAQBAJ&pg=PT357&lpg=PT357] |access-date=16 September 2020 |archive-date=10 April 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230410213904/https://books.google.com/books?id=ZsyRAgAAQBAJ |url-status=live }}</ref>

The city has also been known as ''Tai-pak''<ref>{{cite book |url=https://archive.org/details/sketchesfromtaiw00camprich/page/82 |title=Sketches from Formosa |author=William Campbell |date=1915 |page=82 |via=[[Internet Archive]] |quote=No sooner had the Governor-General at Tai-pak received telegraphic information of the magnitude of the calamity, than instruction were issued for a large company of surgeons, nurses, and assistants to proceed at once to Ka-gi. |author-link=William Campbell (missionary)}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.thefreedictionary.com/Tai-pak |website=[[The Free Dictionary]] |title=Tai-pak |quote=Taipei (redirected from Tai-pak) |access-date=23 November 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150913150945/http://www.thefreedictionary.com/Tai-pak |archive-date=13 September 2015 |url-status=live}}</ref> (derived from Taiwanese Hokkien) and ''Taipeh''.<ref>{{cite magazine |url=https://archive.org/details/nationalgeograp371920nati/page/256|magazine=National Geographic Magazine |title=FORMOSA THE BEAUTIFUL |author=Alice Ballantine Kirjassoff|date=March 1920|pages=257, 262|volume=37|issue=3|quote=I boarded a train for Taihoku, the capital city, which on most maps still bears its old Chinese name of Taipeh.{...}Taihoku (Taipeh)}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.thefreedictionary.com/Taipeh |website=[[The Free Dictionary]] |title=Taipeh |quote=Noun 1. Taipeh - the capital of Nationalist ChinaTaipeh - the capital of Nationalist China; located in northern Taiwan |access-date=23 November 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191027023953/https://www.thefreedictionary.com/Taipeh |archive-date=27 October 2019 |url-status=live}}</ref>

During the Japanese rule, Taipei was known as ''Taihoku'', which is the pronunciation of the [[Social:Chinese characters|Chinese characters]] ([[Social:Kanji|Kanji]]) for Taipei in Japanese.{{notinsource|date=April 2023}}<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://maps.princeton.edu/catalog/princeton-kw52j969v |title=Taihoku-Matsuyama, Formosa (Taiwan), Taihoku-Shu. A.M.S. L991 - Digital Maps and Geospatial Data &#124; Princeton University |access-date=13 March 2023 |archive-date=13 March 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230313133620/https://maps.princeton.edu/catalog/princeton-kw52j969v |url-status=live }}</ref>

==History==
[[File:North Side of Old Taipei City North Gate.jpg|left|215px|thumb|Taipei's Old North Gate, completed in 1884]]

Prior to the significant influx of Han Chinese colonists, the region of Taipei Basin was mainly inhabited by the plains aborigines called Ketagalan. The number of Han colonists gradually increased in the early 18th century under Qing Dynasty rule after the government began permitting development in the area.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://english.taipei.gov.tw/ct.asp?xItem=1084524&ctNode=29490&mp=100002 |title=Taipei's History and Development |publisher=Taipei City Government |date=November 2014 |access-date=15 January 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141230144133/http://english.taipei.gov.tw/ct.asp?xItem=1084524&ctNode=29490&mp=100002 |archive-date=30 December 2014 |url-status=live}}</ref> In 1875, the northern part of the island was incorporated into the new Taipeh Prefecture.

It was formerly established as Taipeh-fu and was the temporary capital of the island in 1887 when it was declared a province (Fukien-Taiwan Province).<ref>{{cite encyclopedia |url=http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/580809/Taipei/231554/History |title=Taipei (Taiwan) :: History |encyclopedia=Britannica.com |access-date=4 July 2010 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100527202105/http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/580809/Taipei/231554/History |archive-date=27 May 2010 |url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |last1=Davidson |first1=James W. |title=The Island of Formosa, Past and Present : history, people, resources, and commercial prospects : tea, camphor, sugar, gold, coal, sulphur, economical plants, and other productions |year=1903 |publisher=Macmillan & Co. |url=https://archive.org/details/islandofformosap00davi |location=London and New York |ol=6931635M |page=245 |access-date=10 January 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150108025015/https://archive.org/details/islandofformosap00davi |archive-date=8 January 2015 |url-status=live}}</ref> Taipeh was formally made the provincial capital in 1894. The romanized transcription of Taipeh was changed to Taihoku in 1895 when the Empire of Japan annexed Taiwan, based on the Japanese reading of the two characters. The writing in Chinese characters remained unaltered. Under Japanese rule, the city was administered under Taihoku Prefecture. Taiwan's Japanese rulers embarked on an extensive program of advanced [[Engineering:Urban planning|urban planning]] that featured extensive railroad links. A number of Taipei landmarks and cultural institutions date from this period.<ref name="marsh1" />

Following the surrender of Japan to the Allies during 1945, effective control of Taiwan was handed to the Republic of China (ROC). After facing defeat from Communist forces, the ruling Kuomintang relocated the ROC government to Taiwan and declared Taipei the provisional capital of the ROC in December 1949.<ref name="ng" /><ref name="bbctimeline-retreat" /><ref>{{cite book |url=https://archive.org/details/rebellionrevolut0000russ/ |isbn=0-13-785745-4 |year=1974 |title=Rebellion, Revolution, and Armed Force |author={{w|Diana E. H. Russell|D. E. H. Russell}}
|publisher={{w|Academic Press}}
|page=[https://archive.org/details/rebellionrevolut0000russ/page/111/ 111]
|quote=On Dec. 8, 1949, T'ai-pei, on the island of Formosa, to which Chiang Kai-shek and many of his followers had fled, was declared the Nationalist Capital.}}</ref> Taiwan's Kuomintang rulers regarded the city as the capital of Taiwan Province and their control as mandated by General Order No. 1.

In 1990, Taipei provided the backdrop for the Wild Lily student rallies that moved Taiwanese society from one-party rule to multi-party [[Social:Democracy|democracy]] by 1996. The city has ever since served as the seat of Taiwan's democratically elected national government.

===Early settlers–Qing dynasty===
The region known as the Taipei Basin was home to Ketagalan tribes before the eighteenth century.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://english.taipei.gov.tw/TCG/index.jsp?recordid=109 |title=History |publisher=Taipei City Government |date=29 March 2004 |access-date=11 August 2009 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20050507005944/http://english.taipei.gov.tw/TCG/index.jsp?recordid=109 |archive-date=7 May 2005}}</ref> Han Chinese colonists from Dabu County, Yongding County, Anxi and Tong'an of Southern Fujian began to settle in the Taipei Basin in 1709.<ref name="kelly">{{cite book |last=Kelly |first=Robert |title=Taiwan |publisher=Lonely Planet Publications |year=2007 |page=46 |isbn=978-1-74104-548-2}}</ref><ref name="tcghistory">{{cite web |url=http://english.taipei.gov.tw/TCG/index.jsp?recordid=108 |title=History of Taipei |publisher=Taipei City Government |access-date=11 August 2009 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070526012848/http://english.taipei.gov.tw/TCG/index.jsp?recordid=108 |archive-date=26 May 2007}}</ref>

In the late 19th century, the Taipei area, where the major Han Chinese settlements in northern Taiwan and one of the designated overseas trade ports, Tamsui, were located, gained economic importance due to the booming overseas trade, especially that of tea export. In 1875, the northern part of Taiwan was separated from Taiwan Prefecture and incorporated into the new Taipeh Prefecture as a new administrative entity of the Qing dynasty.<ref name="marsh1">{{cite book |last=Marsh |first=Robert |title=The Great Transformation |publisher=M. E. Sharpe |year=1996 |page=84 |isbn=1-56324-788-7}}</ref> Having been established adjoining the flourishing townships of Bangka, Dalongdong, and Twatutia, the new prefectural capital was known as ''Chengnei'' ({{zh|t=城內|p=chéngnèi|poj=siâⁿ-lāi}}), "the inner city", and government buildings were erected there. From 1875 until the beginning of Japanese rule in 1895, Taipei was part of Tamsui County of Taipeh Prefecture and the prefectural capital.<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Huang |first=Wenchuan |title=Street-naming and the Subjectivity of Taiwan: A Case Study of Taipei City |url=https://journals.uni-lj.si/as/article/download/2879/2868/5757 |journal=Asian and African Studies}}</ref>

In 1885, as work commenced to govern the island as a province, Taipeh was thus temporarily designated as a provincial capital. The city officially became the capital in 1894.{{citation needed|date=January 2015}} Nowadays, all that remains from the historical period is the north gate. The west gate and city walls were demolished by the Japanese while the south gate, little south gate, and east gate were extensively modified by the Kuomintang and have lost much of their original character.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Allen |first1=Joseph R. |title=Taipei: City of Displacements |date=2012 |publisher=University of Washington Press |location=Seattle |isbn=978-0-295-80426-2 |pages=75–81}}</ref>

===Empire of Japan===
[[File:Txu-pclmaps-oclc-6550514-taihoku-east-2422-iii.jpg|left|thumb|Map of eastern Taipei (labeled as TAIHOKU) and nearby areas ([[Earth:Army Map Service|AMS]], 1944)]]
[[File:大島久滿次.jpg|thumb|The Taihoku Prefecture government building in the 1910s (now the Control Yuan building).]]

As settlement for losing the First Sino-Japanese War, China ceded the island of Taiwan to the [[Place:Empire of Japan|Empire of Japan]] in 1895 as part of the Treaty of Shimonoseki. After the Japanese takeover, Taipei, romanized into English as '''Taihoku''' following the Japanese language pronunciation, was retained as the capital. It subsequently emerged as the political center of the Japanese Colonial Government.<ref name="marsh1" /> During that time the city acquired the characteristics of an administrative center, including many new public buildings and housing for civil servants. Much of the architecture of Taipei dates from the period of Japanese rule, including the Presidential Office Building which was the Office of the Governor-General of Taiwan.

During Japanese rule, Taihoku was incorporated in 1920 as part of Taihoku Prefecture. It included Bangka, Twatutia, and {{nihongo||城內|Jōnai}} among other small settlements. The eastern village of {{nihongo4||松山庄|Matsuyama|modern-day Songshan District, Taipei}} was annexed into Taihoku City in 1938. Taihoku and surrounding areas were bombed by Allied forces on several occasions. The largest of these Allied air raids, the Taihoku Air Raid, took place on 31 May 1945.

===Post-WW2 under ROC===
[[File:Taipei_2012_3_amk.jpg|thumb|left|upright|Taipei 101 is a landmark and tourist attraction in Taipei]]
[[File:Chiang Kai-shek memorial amk.jpg|thumb|200px|The National Chiang Kai-shek Memorial Hall is a national monument, landmark, and tourist attraction in Taipei]]
[[File:美國總統艾森豪於1960年6月訪問臺灣台北時與蔣中正總統-2.jpg|thumb|With President Chiang Kai-shek, U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower waved to a crowd during his visit to Taipei in June 1960.]]

Upon the Japanese defeat following the nuclear bomb destruction of Hiroshima and its consequent surrender in August 1945, the Kuomintang (Chinese Nationalist Party) assumed control of Taiwan. Subsequently, Taipei was established as a provincial city and a temporary Office of the Taiwan Province Administrative Governor was established in it.{{sfnp|Marsh|1996|p=85}} In 1947 the Kuomintang (KMT) government under Chiang Kai-shek declared island-wide martial law in Taiwan as a result of the 28 February Incident, which began with incidents in Taipei but led to an island-wide crackdown on the local population by forces loyal to Chiang. Two years later, on 7 December 1949, Chiang and the Kuomintang forces were forced to flee mainland China by the after defeat by Communist revolutionaries. The KMT-led national government that fled to Taiwan declared Taipei to be the provisional capital of a continuing Republic of China.<ref name="ng">{{cite book |last=Ng |first=Franklin |title=The Taiwanese Americans |publisher=Greenwood Publishing Group |year=1998 |page=10 |isbn=0-313-29762-2}}</ref><ref name="bbctimeline-retreat">{{cite news |url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/static/in_depth/asia_pacific/2000/taiwan_elections2000/1949_1955.stm |title=Taiwan Timeline – Retreat to Taiwan |year=2000 |work=BBC News |access-date=13 July 2009 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090624190413/http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/static/in_depth/asia_pacific/2000/taiwan_elections2000/1949_1955.stm |archive-date=24 June 2009 |url-status=live}} Taipei has never been declared the official capital but Kuomintang loyalists today generally regard it as such. In 2004 elementary textbook references stating "Nanjing is the capital of the Republic of China" were replaced with "Taipei is the location of the central government of the Republic of China."</ref>

Taipei expanded greatly in the decades after 1949, and as approved on 30 December 1966, by the Executive Yuan, Taipei was declared a special municipality on 1 July 1967.<ref name="tcghistory" /> In the following year, Taipei City expanded again by annexing Shilin, Beitou, Neihu, Nangang, Jingmei, and Muzha. At that time, the city's total area increased fourfold by absorbing several outlying towns and villages and the population increased to 1.56 million people.<ref name="tcghistory" />

The city's population, which had reached one million in the early 1960s, also expanded rapidly after 1967, exceeding two million by the mid-1970s. Although growth within the city itself gradually slowed thereafter{{sfnp|Marsh|1996|p=85}} — its population had become relatively stable by the mid-1990s – Taipei remained one of the world's most densely populated urban areas, and the population continued to increase in the region surrounding the city, notably along the corridor between Taipei and Keelung.{{Original research inline|date=March 2023}}

In 1990, Taipei's 16 districts were consolidated into the current 12 districts.<ref name="yearbook">{{cite book |title=Republic of China Yearbook |publisher=Kwang Hwa Publishing Co. |year=2002 |page=120 |isbn=957-9227-35-7}}</ref> Mass democracy rallies that year in the plaza around Chiang Kai-shek Memorial Hall led to an island-wide transition to multi-party [[Social:Democracy|democracy]], where legislators are chosen via regularly scheduled popular elections, during the presidency of Lee Teng-Hui.{{Original research inline|date=March 2023}}

==Geography==
[[File:Aerial panorama of Taipei's west from the perspective of Tamsui River.jpg|thumb|Aerial panorama of Taipei's west from the perspective of Tamsui River.]]
[[File:2014-02-23 台北 Taipei from 貓空 01.jpg|thumb|The city of Taipei, as seen from Maokong in 2014.]]
Taipei City is located in the Taipei Basin in northern Taiwan.<ref name="taipeiprofile">{{cite web |url=http://www.travel.taipei/frontsite/en/cms/cmsAction.do?method=goCMSDetail&contentId=283&menuId=1030101 |title=About Taipei – Taipei Profile |publisher=Department of Information and Tourism, Taipei City Government |access-date=12 December 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161220200603/http://www.travel.taipei/frontsite/en/cms/cmsAction.do?method=goCMSDetail&contentId=283&menuId=1030101 |archive-date=20 December 2016 |url-status=dead}}</ref> It is bordered by the Xindian River on the south and the Tamsui River on the west. The generally low-lying terrain of the central areas on the western side of the municipality slopes upward to the south and east and especially to the north,<ref name="tcggeo" /> where it reaches the {{cvt|1120|m|adj=on|sp=us}}-tall [[Earth:Qixing Mountain (Taipei)|Qixing Mountain]], the highest (dormant) [[Earth:Volcano|volcano]] in Taiwan in Yangmingshan National Park. The northern districts of Shilin and Beitou extend north of the Keelung River and are bordered by Yangmingshan National Park. The Taipei city limits cover an area of {{cvt|271.7997|km2|abbr=on}},<ref>{{cite web |url=http://english.gov.taipei/ct.asp?xItem=11490755&CtNode=49684&mp=100002 |title=Geographical Overview |website=Taipei City Government |access-date=12 December 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161220213621/http://english.gov.taipei/ct.asp?xItem=11490755&CtNode=49684&mp=100002 |archive-date=20 December 2016 |url-status=dead}}</ref> ranking sixteenth of twenty-five among all counties and cities in Taiwan.

Two peaks, Qixing Mountain and Mt. Datun, rise to the northeast of the city.<ref name="geopop">{{cite web |url=http://english.taipei.gov.tw/TCG/index.jsp?recordid=116 |title=Geography/Population |publisher=Taipei City Government |date=29 March 2004 |access-date=11 August 2009 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20050127015838/http://english.taipei.gov.tw/TCG/index.jsp?recordid=116 |archive-date=27 January 2005}}</ref> Qixing Mountain is located on the Tatun Volcanic Group; its {{cvt|1120|m|adj=on|sp=us}}-high main peak renders it the tallest mountain at the rim of the Taipei Basin; {{cvt|1092|m|adj=on|sp=us}}-high Mt. Datun is a close runner up. These former volcanoes make up the western section of Yangmingshan National Park, extending from Mt. Datun northward to Mt. Caigongkeng ({{lang|zh-hant|菜公坑山}}). Located on a broad saddle between two mountains, the area also contains the marshy Datun Pond.

To the southeast of the city lie the Songshan Hills and the Qingshui Ravine, which form a barrier of lush woods.<ref name="geopop" />

===Climate===
{{climate chart
| Taipei
|14.4|19.6|93.8
|14.7|20.7|129.4
|16.2|22.9|157.8
|19.4|26.7|151.4
|22.8|30.1|245.2
|25.3|32.9|354.6
|26.8|35.0|214.2
|26.6|34.4|336.5
|25.2|31.6|336.8
|22.6|27.8|162.6
|19.8|24.9|89.3
|16.1|21.1|96.9
|units = metric
|float = right
|clear = both }}

Taipei has a [[Earth:Humid subtropical climate|humid subtropical climate]] ([[Earth:Köppen climate classification|Köppen]]: ''Cfa'').<ref>[http://tigp.sinica.edu.tw/taipei_taiwan.html Taipei City] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130402140952/https://tigp.sinica.edu.tw/taipei_taiwan.html |date=2 April 2013 }} - Academia Sinica</ref><ref>[http://web.mtc.ntnu.edu.tw/mtcweb/index.php?option=com_guoyu&task=show_information&id=84&menuid=74&lang=en Living in Taipei] {{Webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120217224937/http://web.mtc.ntnu.edu.tw/mtcweb/index.php?option=com_guoyu&task=show_information&id=84&menuid=74&lang=en |date=17 February 2012 }} - Mandarin Training Center, a subsidiary of National Taiwan Normal University</ref><ref>[http://sistercities.lacity.org/html/14.htm Taipei, Taiwan; the sister city of Los Angeles] {{Webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130120135157/http://sistercities.lacity.org/html/14.htm |date=20 January 2013 }} - Los Angeles City Council</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://koeppen-geiger.vu-wien.ac.at/ |title=Köppen−Geiger Climate Classification |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100906034159/http://koeppen-geiger.vu-wien.ac.at/ |archive-date=6 September 2010}}</ref> Summers are long-lasting, very hot and humid, and accompanied by occasional heavy rainstorms and typhoons; while winters are short, generally warm and generally very foggy due to the northeasterly winds from the vast Siberian High being intensified by the pooling of this cooler air in the Taipei Basin. As in the rest of Northern Taiwan, daytime temperatures of Taipei can often peak above {{cvt|26|C}} during a warm winter day, while they can dip below that same level during afternoon showers and thunderstorms in the summer. Occasional cold fronts during the winter months can drop the daily temperature by {{cvt|3|to|5|C-change}}, though temperatures rarely drop below {{cvt|10|C}}.<ref>{{cite web |title=Weather History for Sungshan, Taiwan |url=http://www.wunderground.com/history/airport/RCSS/2014/1/1/MonthlyHistory.html |website=Wunderground |access-date=29 June 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150505163640/http://www.wunderground.com/history/airport/RCSS/2014/1/1/MonthlyHistory.html |archive-date=5 May 2015 |url-status=live}}</ref> Extreme temperatures ranged from {{cvt|−0.2|C}} on 13 February 1901 to {{cvt|39.7|C}} on 24 July 2020, while snow has never been recorded in the city besides on mountains located within the city limit such as [[Earth:Yangmingshan|Yangmingshan]]. Due to Taiwan's location in the Pacific Ocean, it is affected by the Pacific typhoon season, which occurs between June and October.
{{Weather box
|width = auto
|collapsed = Y
|location = Taipei (normals 1991&ndash;2020, extremes 1896&ndash;present)
|metric first = y
|single line = y
|Jan record high C = 33.8
|Feb record high C = 31.8
|Mar record high C = 35.0
|Apr record high C = 36.2
|May record high C = 38.2
|Jun record high C = 38.9
|Jul record high C = 39.7
|Aug record high C = 39.3
|Sep record high C = 38.6
|Oct record high C = 36.8
|Nov record high C = 34.3
|Dec record high C = 31.5

|Jan high C = 19.6
|Feb high C = 20.7
|Mar high C = 22.9
|Apr high C = 26.7
|May high C = 30.1
|Jun high C = 32.9
|Jul high C = 35.0
|Aug high C = 34.4
|Sep high C = 31.6
|Oct high C = 27.8
|Nov high C = 24.9
|Dec high C = 21.1
|year high C = 27.3

|Jan mean C = 16.6
|Feb mean C = 17.2
|Mar mean C = 19.0
|Apr mean C = 22.5
|May mean C = 25.8
|Jun mean C = 28.3
|Jul mean C = 30.1
|Aug mean C = 29.7
|Sep mean C = 27.8
|Oct mean C = 24.7
|Nov mean C = 22.0
|Dec mean C = 18.2

|Jan low C = 14.4
|Feb low C = 14.7
|Mar low C = 16.2
|Apr low C = 19.4
|May low C = 22.8
|Jun low C = 25.3
|Jul low C = 26.8
|Aug low C = 26.6
|Sep low C = 25.2
|Oct low C = 22.6
|Nov low C = 19.8
|Dec low C = 16.1
|year low C = 20.8

|Jan record low C = −0.1
|Feb record low C = −0.2
|Mar record low C =  1.4
|Apr record low C =  4.7
|May record low C = 10.0
|Jun record low C = 15.6
|Jul record low C = 19.5
|Aug record low C = 18.9
|Sep record low C = 13.5
|Oct record low C = 10.2
|Nov record low C =  1.1
|Dec record low C =  1.8

|precipitation colour=green
|Jan precipitation mm = 93.8
|Feb precipitation mm = 129.4
|Mar precipitation mm = 157.8
|Apr precipitation mm = 151.4
|May precipitation mm = 245.2
|Jun precipitation mm = 354.6
|Jul precipitation mm = 214.2
|Aug precipitation mm = 336.5
|Sep precipitation mm = 336.8
|Oct precipitation mm = 162.6
|Nov precipitation mm = 89.3
|Dec precipitation mm = 96.9

|Jan humidity = 77.2
|Feb humidity = 77.8
|Mar humidity = 76.1
|Apr humidity = 74.9
|May humidity = 74.7
|Jun humidity = 75.3
|Jul humidity = 70.2
|Aug humidity = 72.1
|Sep humidity = 73.9
|Oct humidity = 74.4
|Nov humidity = 75.0
|Dec humidity = 75.9
|year humidity = 74.8

|unit precipitation days = 0.1 mm
|Jan precipitation days = 13.6
|Feb precipitation days = 12.0
|Mar precipitation days = 14.1
|Apr precipitation days = 14.5
|May precipitation days = 14.5
|Jun precipitation days = 15.7
|Jul precipitation days = 11.8
|Aug precipitation days = 14.6
|Sep precipitation days = 13.8
|Oct precipitation days = 12.8
|Nov precipitation days = 12.5
|Dec precipitation days = 13.1

|Jan sun = 76.1
|Feb sun = 79.3
|Mar sun = 95.1
|Apr sun = 96.9
|May sun = 113.6
|Jun sun = 114.8
|Jul sun = 176.9
|Aug sun = 182.8
|Sep sun = 151.7
|Oct sun = 114.7
|Nov sun = 93.3
|Dec sun = 78.6

|source 1 = Central Weather Bureau<ref name= CWB>{{cite web |url=https://www.cwb.gov.tw/V8/C/C/Statistics/monthlymean.html |title=Monthly Mean |publisher=Central Weather Bureau |access-date=19 January 2021 |archive-date=9 December 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221209115926/https://www.cwb.gov.tw/V8/C/C/Statistics/monthlymean.html |url-status=live }}</ref><ref name=CWBrecordhighs1>{{cite web |url=https://www.cwb.gov.tw/Data/climate/Statistics/pdf/sort_18.pdf |title=氣象站各月份最高氣溫統計 |publisher=Central Weather Bureau |language=zh |access-date=5 November 2021 |archive-date=17 October 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221017235559/https://www.cwb.gov.tw/Data/climate/Statistics/pdf/sort_18.pdf |url-status=live }}</ref><ref name=CWBrecordhighs2>{{cite web |url=https://www.cwb.gov.tw/Data/climate/Statistics/pdf/sort_19.pdf |title=氣象站各月份最高氣溫統計(續) |publisher=Central Weather Bureau |language=zh |access-date=5 November 2021 |archive-date=17 October 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221017235603/https://www.cwb.gov.tw/Data/climate/Statistics/pdf/sort_19.pdf |url-status=live }}</ref><ref name=CWBrecordlows1>{{cite web |url=https://www.cwb.gov.tw/Data/climate/Statistics/pdf/sort_20.pdf |title=氣象站各月份最低氣溫統計 |publisher=Central Weather Bureau |language=zh |access-date=5 November 2021 |archive-date=19 February 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220219233031/https://www.cwb.gov.tw/Data/climate/Statistics/pdf/sort_20.pdf |url-status=live }}</ref><ref name=CWBrecordlow2>{{cite web |url=https://www.cwb.gov.tw/Data/climate/Statistics/pdf/sort_21.pdf |title=氣象站各月份最低氣溫統計(續) |publisher=Central Weather Bureau |language=zh |access-date=5 November 2021 |archive-date=19 December 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221219055306/https://www.cwb.gov.tw/Data/climate/Statistics/pdf/sort_21.pdf |url-status=live }}</ref>
}}

===Air quality===
In comparison to other [[Earth:Asia|Asia]]n cities, Taipei has "excellent" capabilities for managing air quality in the city.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.earthtimes.org/articles/news/13786.html |title=Pollution is a major threat for Asian cities, says new report |publisher=EarthTimes |date=14 December 2006 |access-date=22 July 2010 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120918040929/http://www.earthtimes.org/articles/news/13786.html |archive-date=18 September 2012 |url-status=live}}</ref> Its rainy climate, location near the coast, and strong environmental regulations have prevented air pollution from becoming a substantial health issue, at least compared to cities in southeast Asia and industrial China. However, smog is extremely common and there is poor visibility throughout the city after rainless days.

Motor vehicle engine exhaust, particularly from motor scooters, is a source of [[Earth:Air pollution|air pollution]] in Taipei. There are higher levels of fine particulate matter and [[Astronomy:Polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon|polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon]]s in the mornings because of less air movement; sunlight reduces some pollution.<ref>{{cite news |last=Oung |first=Angelica |url=http://www.taipeitimes.com/News/taiwan/archives/2007/05/04/2003359365 |title=Taipei air pollution alarming: scientists |newspaper=The Taipei Times |date=4 May 2007 |access-date=27 July 2009 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090705014955/http://www.taipeitimes.com/News/taiwan/archives/2007/05/04/2003359365 |archive-date=5 July 2009 |url-status=live}}</ref>

==Cityscape==
{{Wide image|Taipei_landscape.jpg|1100px|Panoramic view of Taipei's skyline at day}}
{{Wide image|Taipei_panorama.jpg|1100px|Panoramic view of the skyline of Xinyi Special District (Taipei) skyline at night.}}

==Demographics==
{{Historical populations
|type = Taiwan
|footnote = Sources: 1875<ref>{{cite book|author=李瑞麟|title=臺灣都市之形成與發展|series=《臺灣銀行季刊》|year=1973}}24(3):1-29, 表2, 頁7.</ref> 1905–1935 <ref>{{cite book|author=章英華|title=〈臺灣的都市體系——從清到日治〉|series=《臺灣的都市社會》|year=1997|publisher=巨流出版社|location=臺北}}</ref> 1958 <ref>{{cite book|author=陳天祥|title=臺灣地誌|year=1959|publisher=敷明產業地理研究所|location=臺北}}</ref> 1972 <ref>{{cite book|author=蔡青龍|title=臺灣地區都市人口之成長與分佈|series=社會科學整合論文集|year=1982|publisher=中央研究院三民主義研究所|location=臺北}}</ref> 1980 <ref>{{cite book|author=行政院經濟建設委員會都市及住宅發展處|title=都市及區域發展統計彙編|year=1980|publisher=臺北}}</ref> 
1985–2020 {{cite web |url=https://www.ris.gov.tw/app/portal/346 |publisher=Ministry of the Interior |title=Populations by city and country in Taiwan|date=May 2018}}
|1875 |38,000
|1905 |74,415
|1920 |162,782
|1935 |274,157
|1958 |715,000
|1972 |1,890,760
|1980 |2,220,427
|1985 |2,507,620
|1990 |2,719,659
|1995 |2,632,863
|2000 |2,646,474
|2005 |2,632,242
|2010 |2,618,772
|2015 |2,704,810
|2020 |2,602,418
|2022 |2,524,393
}}

[[File:Shilin night market alley.jpg|thumb|Customers in the Shilin Night Market]]

While Taipei City is home to 2,524,393 people (2022), the greater metropolitan area has a population of 7,047,559 people.<ref name="population" /> Even though the population of the city has been decreasing in recent years, the population of adjacent New Taipei has been increasing. The population loss, while rapid in its early years, was slowed by lower density development and campaigns designed to increase the birthrate in the city in the 2010s. As a result, the population rose 2010-2015.<ref name="population" /><ref name="demographics">{{cite web |url=http://english.taipei.gov.tw/ct.asp?xItem=1084529&ctNode=29491&mp=100002 |title=Demographical Overview |date=28 July 2009 |publisher=Taipei City Government |access-date=11 July 2010 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100715113135/http://english.taipei.gov.tw/ct.asp?xItem=1084529&ctNode=29491&mp=100002 |archive-date=15 July 2010 |url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |url=http://www.etaiwannews.com/etn/news_content.php?id=1193132&lang=eng_news&cate_img=logo_taiwan&cate_rss=TAIWAN_eng |title=Premier agrees to suspend sales of state-owned prime city land |publisher=Central News Agency |date=2 March 2010 |access-date=11 July 2010 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110916060723/http://www.etaiwannews.com/etn/news_content.php?id=1193132&lang=eng_news&cate_img=logo_taiwan&cate_rss=TAIWAN_eng |archive-date=16 September 2011 |url-status=live}}</ref>

Due to Taipei's geography and location in the Taipei Basin as well as  differing times of settlement and differing degrees of economic development of its districts, Taipei's population is not evenly distributed. The districts of Daan, Songshan, and Datong are the most densely populated. These districts, along with adjacent communities such as Yonghe and Zhonghe, contain some of the most densely populated neighborhoods in the world.<ref name="demographics" />

In 2008, the [[Birth rate|crude birth rate]] stood at 7.88%, while the [[Mortality rate|mortality rate]] stood at 5.94%. A decreasing and rapidly aging population is an important issue for the city.<ref name="demographics" /> By the end of 2009, one in ten people in Taipei was over 65 years of age.<ref>{{cite news |url=http://www.etaiwannews.com/etn/news_content.php?id=1163105&lang=eng_news |title=Taiwan's elderly population reaches one in 10: interior ministry |publisher=Central News Agency |date=23 January 2010 |access-date=11 July 2010 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111201201320/http://www.etaiwannews.com/etn/news_content.php?id=1163105&lang=eng_news |archive-date=1 December 2011 |url-status=dead}}</ref> Residents who had obtained a college education or higher accounted for 43.48% of the population, and the literacy rate stood at 99.18%.<ref name="demographics" />

Like the rest of Taiwan, Taipei is composed of four major ethnic subgroups: Hoklos, Waishengren, Hakkas, and aborigines.<ref name="demographics" /> Although Hoklos and Waishengren form the majority of the population of the city, in recent decades many Hakkas have moved into the city. The aboriginal population in the city stands at 16,713 at the end of 2018 (<1%), concentrated mostly in the suburban districts. Foreigners (mainly from Indonesia, the {{wipe|Philippines}}, and {{wipe|Japan}}) numbered 71,858 at the end of 2022.<ref name="demographics" /><ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.immigration.gov.tw/5475/5478/141478/141380/331536/cp_news |title=2022.11Foreign Residents by Nationality |website=immigration.gov.tw |access-date=26 January 2023 |archive-date=26 January 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230126152809/https://www.immigration.gov.tw/5475/5478/141478/141380/331536/cp_news |url-status=live}}</ref>
{| class="wikitable"
|-
! Age distribution !! Male !! Female !! Total
|-
| 0–4 || 73,680 || 69,574 || 143,250
|-
| 5–9 || 57,701 || 53,004 || 110,705
|-
| 10–14 || 67,345 || 61,491 || 128,842
|-
| 15–19 || 77,974 || 72,110 || 150,084
|-
| 20–24 || 78,552 || 73,103 || 151,655
|-
| 25–29 || 78,447 || 80,882 || 159,329
|-
| 30–34 || 105,245 || 118,719 || 223,964
|-
| 35–39 || 107,951 || 123,852 || 231,803
|-
| 40–44 || 96,222 || 111,729 || 207,951
|-
| 45–49 || 96,535 || 112,049 || 208,584
|-
| 50–54 || 98,411 || 112,322 || 210,733
|-
| 55–59 || 96,092 || 110,635 || 206,727
|-
| 60–64 || 87,691 || 100,472 || 188,163
|-
| 65–69 || 55,867 || 64,949 || 120,816
|-
| 70–74 || 40,087 || 50,018 || 90,105
|-
| 75–79 || 28,413 || 39,123 || 67,536
|-
| 80–84 || 23,314 || 26,760 || 50,074
|-
| 85+ || 26,109 || 25,887 || 51,996
|}

==Economy==
[[File:Aerial panorama of Taipei City's west.jpg|thumb|Aerial panorama of Taipei City's west]]
[[File:Bellavita and CPCCT head office 20100907.jpg|thumb|Bellavita Shopping Center and CPC Building at Xinyi Special District]]
[[File:Neihu during 2015 winter solstice.jpg|thumb|Taipei Neihu Technology Park]]

As Taiwan's business, financial, and technology hub, Taipei has been at the center of rapid economic development in the country and has now become one of the global cities in technology and electronics.<ref>{{cite book |last=Kwok |first=R. Yin-Wang |title=Globalizing Taipei: the political economy of spatial development |publisher=Routledge |year=2005 |page=163 |isbn=0-415-35451-X}}</ref> This development is part of the so-called Taiwan Economic Miracle which has seen dramatic growth in the city following [[Finance:Foreign direct investment|foreign direct investment]] in the 1960s. Taiwan is now a [[Finance:Creditor|creditor]] economy, holding one of the world's largest foreign exchange reserves of over US$403 billion as of December 2012.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://eng.stat.gov.tw/point.asp?index=5 |title=National Statistics, Republic of China – Latest Indicators |publisher=Directorate General of Budget, Accounting and Statistics |access-date=15 March 2010 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110427175827/http://eng.stat.gov.tw/point.asp?index=5 |archive-date=27 April 2011 |url-status=live}}</ref>

Despite the Asian financial crisis, the economy continues to expand at about 5% per year, with virtually full employment and low inflation. The city's GDP stand at US$327 billion in 2014.<ref>{{Cite news |url=https://www.brookings.edu/research/global-metro-monitor/ |title=Global Metro Monitor |last=Parilla |first=Alan Berube, Jesus Leal Trujillo, Tao Ran, and Joseph |date=22 January 2015 |work=Brookings |access-date=18 July 2018 |language=en-US |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170525113815/https://www.brookings.edu/research/global-metro-monitor/ |archive-date=25 May 2017 |url-status=live}}</ref> {{As of|2013}}, the nominal GDP per capita in Taipei city is 5th highest in East Asia, behind Tokyo, Singapore, Osaka, and Hong Kong, but ahead of Seoul, as well as London and Paris, according to ''The Economist''.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://i.imgur.com/4Mcv6ZY.png |title=Archived copy |access-date=20 December 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151222132057/http://i.imgur.com/4Mcv6ZY.png |archive-date=22 December 2015 |url-status=dead}}</ref> GDP per capita based on Purchasing Power Parity (PPP) in Taipei in 2015 was US$44,173, behind that of Singapore (US$90,151 in 2016 from the IMF) and Hong Kong (US$58,322 in 2016 from the IMF; also based on PPP).<ref>{{cite web |url=https://tw.news.yahoo.com/%E4%BA%9E%E5%A4%AA%E6%9C%AA%E4%BE%86%E9%83%BD%E5%B8%82%E6%8E%92%E5%90%8D-%E5%8F%B0%E5%8C%97%E5%83%85%E6%AC%A1%E6%96%B0%E5%8A%A0%E5%9D%A1%E6%9D%B1%E4%BA%AC-025243290.html |title=亞太未來都市排名 台北僅次新加坡東京 |date=16 December 2015 |access-date=13 January 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180113203211/https://tw.news.yahoo.com/%E4%BA%9E%E5%A4%AA%E6%9C%AA%E4%BE%86%E9%83%BD%E5%B8%82%E6%8E%92%E5%90%8D-%E5%8F%B0%E5%8C%97%E5%83%85%E6%AC%A1%E6%96%B0%E5%8A%A0%E5%9D%A1%E6%9D%B1%E4%BA%AC-025243290.html |archive-date=13 January 2018 |url-status=live}}</ref> The ''Financial Times'' ranked Taipei highly in economic potential (2nd, behind Tokyo) and business friendliness (4th) in 2015.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.cna.com.tw/news/firstnews/201512165010-1.aspx |title=亞太未來都市排名 台北僅次新加坡東京 &#124; 重點新聞 &#124; 中央社即時新聞 Cna News |date=16 December 2015 |access-date=20 December 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151219050411/http://www.cna.com.tw/news/firstnews/201512165010-1.aspx |archive-date=19 December 2015 |url-status=live}}</ref> The city is home to 30 billionaires, the 16th most in the world, ahead of many global cities such as Los Angeles and Sydney.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.hurun.net/EN/Article/Details?num=2B1B8F33F9C0 |title=Hurun Report - Details|website=www.hurun.net |access-date=18 July 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180303225425/http://www.hurun.net/EN/Article/Details?num=2B1B8F33F9C0 |archive-date=3 March 2018 |url-status=dead}}</ref> Business Insider also ranks Taipei the 5th most high-tech city globally, the highest in Asia, in 2017.<ref>{{Cite news |url=http://www.businessinsider.com/the-most-high-tech-cities-in-the-world-2017-8#5-taipei-taiwan-20 |title=The 25 most high-tech cities in the world |work=Business Insider |access-date=18 July 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180718055117/http://www.businessinsider.com/the-most-high-tech-cities-in-the-world-2017-8#5-taipei-taiwan-20 |archive-date=18 July 2018 |url-status=live}}</ref> While the IESE Cities in Motion Index 2017 ranks Taipei as the smartest technology city globally.<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://blog.iese.edu/cities-challenges-and-management/2017/05/25/164/ |title=IESE Cities in Motion Index 2017 {{!}} Cities in Motion |website=blog.iese.edu |language=en-US |access-date=18 July 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180718055406/https://blog.iese.edu/cities-challenges-and-management/2017/05/25/164/ |archive-date=18 July 2018 |url-status=dead}}</ref>

Taipei's main development fields include the [[Engineering:Information and communications technology|information and communications technology]] (hardware and software), biotechnology, general merchandizing (wholesale/retail), financial services, and [[Social:Meetings, incentives, conferencing, exhibitions|MICE]] industries. Most of the country's major firms are based there including [[Company:Acer Inc.|Acer Computers]], [[Company:Asus|Asus]], CTBC Bank, Fubon Financial Holding, [[Company:Tatung Company|Tatung Company]], [[Company:D-Link|D-Link]], and others. 5 Global Fortune 500 companies are headquartered in Taipei.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://fortune.com/global500/list/filtered?hqcity=Taipei |title=Fortune Global 500 List 2017: See Who Made It |website=Fortune |language=en-US |access-date=18 July 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180718114449/http://fortune.com/global500/list/filtered?hqcity=Taipei |archive-date=18 July 2018 |url-status=live}}</ref> The city also attracts many multi-national corporations, international financial institutions, foreign consulates, and business organizations to set up base there. Thus, Taipei has nearly 3,500 registered foreign businesses and attracts over 50% of the total foreign investment in Taiwan.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://invest.taipei/pages/E01-1.aspx |title=ITO Invest Taipei |website=invest.taipei |access-date=18 July 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180718055321/http://invest.taipei/pages/E01-1.aspx |archive-date=18 July 2018 |url-status=dead}}</ref> Foreign companies with offices or regional headquarters in Taipei include [[Company:Google|Google]], [[Company:Microsoft|Microsoft]], [[Company:IBM|IBM]], [[Company:Intel|Intel]], [[Company:HSBC|HSBC]], Citibank, [[Company:Facebook|Facebook]], Amazon, [[Company:Apple Inc.|Apple]], JP Morgan, [[Company:PwC|PwC]], and many others. Most financial and foreign firms like to reside in the central business district of Taipei, the Xinyi Special District. With Citi, JP Morgan, DBS Bank, Cathay Life Insurance, Shin Kong Commercial Bank, Hua Nan Bank, and soon Fubon Financial and Nan Shan Life Insurance all establishing skyscrapers in the area. Meanwhile, technology and electronics companies are often co-located in the Neihu Technology Park or the Nankang Software Park. The startup and innovation scene in Taipei is also very vibrant. In 2018 alone, Microsoft announced plans to invest US$34 million to create an artificial intelligence R&D center in Taipei, while Google announced it will hire 300 people and train 5,000 more in artificial intelligence for machines.<ref>{{Cite news |url=https://www.forbes.com/sites/ralphjennings/2018/04/04/why-google-ibm-and-microsoft-all-decided-to-expand-in-taiwan-this-year/#2c0f6c475c72 |title=Why Google, IBM & Microsoft Are All Expanding in Taiwan This Year |last=Jennings |first=Ralph |work=Forbes |access-date=18 July 2018 |language=en |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180718083924/https://www.forbes.com/sites/ralphjennings/2018/04/04/why-google-ibm-and-microsoft-all-decided-to-expand-in-taiwan-this-year/#2c0f6c475c72 |archive-date=18 July 2018 |url-status=live}}</ref> Taipei is Google's biggest engineering site in Asia.<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://asia.nikkei.com/Business/Science/Google-expands-in-Taiwan-its-top-Asian-R-D-hub |title=Google expands in Taiwan, its top Asian R&D hub |website=Nikkei Asian Review |language=en-GB |access-date=18 July 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180718000401/https://asia.nikkei.com/Business/Science/Google-expands-in-Taiwan-its-top-Asian-R-D-hub |archive-date=18 July 2018 |url-status=dead}}</ref> IBM also announced in 2018 that it will develop a cloud research lab and expand its R&D center in Taipei with eyes on artificial intelligence, blockchain technology, and cloud computing. According to the 2016 Global Entrepreneurship Development Index, Taipei's entrepreneurial spirit ranks 6th worldwide and 1st in Asia.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://invest.taipei/pages/E01-5.aspx |title=ITO Invest Taipei |website=invest.taipei |access-date=18 July 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180718083911/http://invest.taipei/pages/E01-5.aspx |archive-date=18 July 2018 |url-status=dead}}</ref> Taipei has more than 400 startups and numerous incubation centers, accelerators, venture capitals, and angel investors.<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://angel.co/taiwan |title=Taiwan Startups |website=AngelList |access-date=18 July 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170227111008/https://angel.co/taiwan |archive-date=27 February 2017 |url-status=live}}</ref> The city's startup ecosystem is valued at US$580 million by Startup Genome in 2018.<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://startupgenome.com/all-report-thank-you/?file=2018 |title=I just downloaded the GSER 2018 by @startupgenome |website=startupgenome.com |language=en-US |access-date=18 July 2018}}{{Dead link|date=August 2019 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes}}</ref>

Tourism is a small but significant component of the local economy<ref>{{cite web |url=http://admin.taiwan.net.tw/statistics/File/200812/table16_2008.xls |script-title=zh:歷年觀光外匯收入統計 |publisher=Tourism Bureau, Ministry of Transportation and Communication |access-date=24 January 2010 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110721114807/http://admin.taiwan.net.tw/statistics/File/200812/table16_2008.xls |archive-date=21 July 2011 |url-status=dead}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://admin.taiwan.net.tw/statistics/File/200812/tourist_spots_2008.xls |script-title=zh:97年臺閩地區主要觀光遊憩區遊客人次月別統計 |publisher=Tourism Bureau, Ministry of Transportation and Communication |access-date=24 January 2010 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110721114816/http://admin.taiwan.net.tw/statistics/File/200812/tourist_spots_2008.xls |archive-date=21 July 2011 |url-status=dead}}</ref> with international visitors totaling almost 3 million in 2008.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.euromonitor.com/Euromonitor_Internationals_Top_City_Destination_Ranking |title=Euromonitor International's Top City Destination Ranking |date=20 January 2010 |access-date=26 January 2010 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110305195249/http://www.euromonitor.com/Euromonitor_Internationals_Top_City_Destination_Ranking |archive-date=5 March 2011 |url-status=live}}</ref> Taipei has many top tourist attractions and contributes a significant amount to the US$6.8 billion tourism industry in Taiwan.<ref>{{cite news |url=http://focustaiwan.tw/ShowNews/WebNews_Detail.aspx?ID=201007140032&Type=aLIV |title=Taiwan's tourism revenue on the rise: survey |publisher=Focus Taiwan News Channel |date=14 July 2010 |access-date=15 July 2010 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110725172707/http://focustaiwan.tw/ShowNews/WebNews_Detail.aspx?ID=201007140032&Type=aLIV |archive-date=25 July 2011 |url-status=live}}</ref>

==Culture==
[[File:Aerial panorama of Taipei city's west side facing the Tamsui River.jpg|thumb|Aerial panorama of Taipei city facing the Tamsui River.]]
===Tourism===
Tourism is a major part of Taipei's economy. In 2013, over 6.3 million overseas visitors visited Taipei, making the city the 15th most visited globally.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://newsroom.mastercard.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/Mastercard_GDCI_2014_Letter_Final_70814.pdf |title=2014 Global Destination Cities Index |publisher=MasterCard |access-date=10 July 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180916112828/https://newsroom.mastercard.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/Mastercard_GDCI_2014_Letter_Final_70814.pdf |archive-date=16 September 2018 |url-status=live}}</ref> The influx of visitors contributed US$10.8 billion to the city's economy in 2013, the 9th highest in the world and the most of any city in the Chinese-speaking world.<ref>{{cite news |url=http://focustaiwan.tw/news/asoc/201407090030.aspx |title=Taipei makes list of world's top 15 tourist destinations: survey |publisher=Focus Taiwan News Channel |date=9 July 2014 |access-date=10 July 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140714161719/http://focustaiwan.tw/news/asoc/201407090030.aspx |archive-date=14 July 2014 |url-status=live}}</ref>

====Commemorative sites and museums====
{{wide image|CKS_Panorama.jpg |1000px |A panorama of the Liberty Square looking east, with the National Concert Hall (left) and the National Theater (right)}}

[[File:National Palace Museum Taipei1.jpg|thumb|The National Palace Museum ]]

[[File:Taipei 228 Memorial Museum face 20070928.jpg|thumb|The 228 Memorial Museum]]

[[File:台北紀州庵.jpg|thumb|Kishu An Forest Literature]]

[[File:National Concert Hall at night 2013.jpg|thumb|The National Concert Hall illuminated at night]]

The National Chiang Kai-shek Memorial Hall is a famous monument, landmark and tourist attraction that was erected in memory of General Chiang Kai-shek, former President of the Republic of China.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.cksmh.gov.tw/eng/index.php |title=National Chiang Kai-shek Memorial Hall |date=5 May 2009 |access-date=9 August 2009 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090408020421/http://www.cksmh.gov.tw/eng/index.php |archive-date=8 April 2009 |url-status=dead}}</ref> The structure stands at the east end of Memorial Hall Square, site of the National Concert Hall and National Theater and their adjacent parks as well as the memorial. The landmarks of Liberty Square stand within sight of Taiwan's Presidential Office Building in Taipei's Zhongzheng District.

[[File:National Taiwan Museum front 20070912.jpg|thumb|The National Taiwan Museum]]
The National Taiwan Museum sits nearby in what is now 228 Peace Memorial Park and has worn its present name since 1999. The museum is Taiwan's oldest, founded on 24 October 1908 by Taiwan's Japanese colonial government (1895–1945) as the Taiwan Governor's Museum. It was launched with a collection of 10,000 items to celebrate the opening of the island's North-South Railway.<ref name="ntminfo">{{cite web |url=http://www.ntm.gov.tw/en/about/1a.aspx |title=National Taiwan Museum: History |publisher=National Taiwan Museum |access-date=9 August 2009 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080422025208/http://www.ntm.gov.tw/en/about/1a.aspx |archive-date=22 April 2008}}</ref> In 1915 a new museum building opened its doors in what is now 228 Peace Memorial Park. This structure and the adjacent governor's office (now Presidential Office Building), served as the two most recognizable public buildings in Taiwan during its period of Japanese rule.<ref name="ntminfo" />
[[File:Shung Ye Museum of Formosan Aborigines in Taipei.jpg|thumb|upright|Shung Ye Museum of Formosan Aborigines]]
The National Palace Museum is a vast art gallery and [[Social:Museum|museum]] built around a permanent collection centered on ancient Chinese artifacts. It should not be confused with the Palace Museum in [[Place:Beijing|Beijing]] (which it is named after); both institutions trace their origins to the same institution. The collections were divided in the 1940s as a result of the Chinese Civil War.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/programmes/newshour/news/story/2007/02/070208_taipei_museum.shtml |title=Taipei's National Palace Museum |access-date=4 June 2008 |publisher=BBC |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121112051135/http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/programmes/newshour/news/story/2007/02/070208_taipei_museum.shtml |archive-date=12 November 2012}}</ref><ref name="npmwashpo">{{cite news |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/06/03/AR2007060300069_pf.html |title=Ancient China's treasures go digital |newspaper=Washington Post |date=3 June 2007 |access-date=9 August 2009 |first=Dan |last=Nystedt |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130721082924/http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/06/03/AR2007060300069_pf.html |archive-date=21 July 2013 |url-status=live}}</ref> The National Palace Museum in Taipei now boasts a truly international collection while housing one of the world's largest collections of artifacts from ancient China.<ref name="npmwashpo" />

The Shung Ye Museum of Formosan Aborigines stands just {{cvt|200|m|ft|sp=us}} across the road from the National Palace Museum. The museum offers displays of art and historical items by Taiwanese aborigines along with a range of multimedia displays.

The Taipei Fine Arts Museum was established in 1983 as the first museum in Taiwan dedicated to modern art. The museum is housed in a building designed for the purpose that takes inspiration from Japanese designs. Most art in the collection is by Taiwanese artists since 1940. Over 3,000 art works are organized into 13 groups.

The National Sun Yat-sen Memorial Hall near Taipei 101 in Xinyi District is named in honor of a founding father of the Republic of China, Sun Yat-sen. The hall, completed on 16 May 1972, originally featured exhibits that depicted revolutionary events in the Republican period of China. Today it functions as multi-purpose social, educational, concert and cultural center for Taiwan's citizens.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.yatsen.gov.tw/en/web/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=9&Itemid=139 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150409051648/http://www.yatsen.gov.tw/en/web/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=9&Itemid=139 |url-status=dead |archive-date=9 April 2015 |title=The History of memorial hall |publisher=National Dr. Sun Yat-sen Memorial Hall |access-date=16 December 2016}}</ref>

[[File:台北當代藝術館.JPG|thumb|Museum of Contemporary Art Taipei, also known as "old city hall"]]
In 2001 a new museum opened as Museum of Contemporary Art Taipei. The museum is housed in a building that formerly housed Taipei City government offices.<ref name="tfaminfo">{{cite web |url=http://www.mocataipei.org.tw/_english/1_about/0_overview.asp |title=From History to Contemporary |publisher=Museum of Contemporary Art Taipei |access-date=9 August 2009 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090223094112/http://www.mocataipei.org.tw/_english/1_about/0_overview.asp |archive-date=23 February 2009}}</ref>

====Taipei 101====
Taipei 101 is a 101-floor [[Earth:Landmark|landmark]] [[Engineering:Skyscraper|skyscraper]] that claimed the title of world's tallest building when it opened in 2004, a title it held for six years before the Burj Khalifa in Dubai was completed. Designed by C.Y. Lee & Partners and constructed by KTRT Joint Venture, Taipei 101 measures {{cvt|509|m|ft|abbr=on}} from ground to top, making it the first skyscraper in the world to break the half-kilometer mark in height. Built to withstand typhoon winds and earthquake tremors, its design incorporates many engineering innovations and has won numerous international awards. Today, the Taipei 101 remains one of the tallest skyscrapers in the world and holds [[Engineering:Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design|LEED]]'s certification as the world's largest "green" building. Its shopping mall and its indoor and outdoor observatories draws visitors from all over the world. Taipei 101's New Year's Eve fireworks display is a regular feature of international broadcasts.

====Performing arts====
The National Theater and Concert Hall stand at Taipei's Liberty Square and host events by foreign and domestic performers. Other leading concert venues include Zhongshan Hall at Ximending and the Sun Yat-sen Memorial Hall near Taipei 101.

A new venue, the Taipei Performing Arts Center, is under construction and slated to open in 2015.<ref>{{cite web |last=Basulto |first=David |title=OMA's Taipei Performing Arts Center breaks ground |url=http://www.archdaily.com/209174 |publisher=ArchDaily |access-date=9 August 2012 |date=12 February 2012 |archive-date=10 April 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230410213920/https://www.archdaily.com/209174/omas-taipei-performing-arts-center-breaks-ground |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{cite journal |last=Reid |first=Robert |title=Taipei Performing Arts Center will feature seismic isolators and projecting auditoriums |journal=Civil Engineering |date=June 2011 |pages=14–16}}</ref> The venue will stand near the Shilin Night Market<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.etaiwannews.com/etn/news_content.php?id=1102380&lang=eng_news&cate_img=240.jpg&cate_rss=news_Supplement_TAIWAN |title=Taipei Performing Arts Center promises to become world-class architecture |publisher=Taiwan News |date=8 November 2009 |access-date=22 July 2010 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110604134639/http://www.etaiwannews.com/etn/news_content.php?id=1102380&lang=eng_news&cate_img=240.jpg&cate_rss=news_Supplement_TAIWAN |archive-date=4 June 2011 |url-status=dead}}</ref> and will house three theaters for events with multi-week runs. The architectural design, by Rem Koolhaas and OMA, was determined in 2009 in an international competition.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.etaiwannews.com/etn/news_content.php?id=899161&lang=eng_news |title=Winning designs for Taipei Performing Arts Center on display |publisher=Central News Agency |date=21 March 2009 |access-date=22 July 2010 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111201202026/http://www.etaiwannews.com/etn/news_content.php?id=899161&lang=eng_news |archive-date=1 December 2011 |url-status=dead}}</ref> The same design process is also in place for a new Taipei Center for Popular Music and Taipei City Museum.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.taipeitimes.com/News/taiwan/archives/2008/07/25/2003418450 |title=Taipei invites architects &#124; Taipei Times, 2008.07.25 |publisher=Taipeitimes.com |date=25 July 2008 |access-date=4 July 2010 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090923213713/http://www.taipeitimes.com/News/taiwan/archives/2008/07/25/2003418450 |archive-date=23 September 2009 |url-status=live}}</ref>

====Shopping and recreation====
Taipei is known for its many night markets, the most famous of which is the Shilin Night Market in the Shilin District. The surrounding streets by Shilin Night Market are extremely crowded during the evening, usually opening late afternoon and operating well past midnight. Most night markets feature individual stalls selling a mixture of food, clothing, and consumer goods.

[[File:Ximending at night.jpg|thumb|The busy streets of Ximending at night.]]

Ximending has been a famous area for shopping and entertainment since the 1930s. Historic structures include a concert hall, a historic cinema, and the Red House Theater. Modern structures house karaoke businesses, art film cinemas, wide-release movie cinemas, electronic stores, and a wide variety of restaurants and fashion clothing stores.{{sfnp|Kelly|2007|p=99}} The pedestrian area is especially popular with teens and has been called the "[[Social:Harajuku|Harajuku]]" of Taipei.<ref>{{cite book |last=Iwabuchi |first=Kōichi |title=Feeling Asian modernities: transnational consumption of Japanese TV dramas |publisher=Hong Kong University Press |year=2004 |page=111 |isbn=962-209-632-8}}</ref>

The newly developed Xinyi District is popular with tourists and locals alike for its many entertainment and shopping venues, as well as being the home of Taipei 101, a prime tourist attraction. Malls in the area include the sprawling Shin Kong Mitsukoshi complex, Breeze Center, Bellavita, Taipei 101 mall, Eslite Bookstore's flagship store (which includes a boutique mall), The Living Mall, ATT shopping mall, and the Vieshow Cinemas (formerly known as Warner Village). The Xinyi district also serves as the center of Taipei's active nightlife, with several popular lounge bars and nightclubs concentrated in a relatively small area around the Neo19, ATT 4 FUN and Taipei 101 buildings. Lounge bars such as Barcode and nightclubs such as Spark and Myst are among the most-visited places here.

The thriving shopping area around Taipei Main Station includes the Taipei Underground Market and the original Shin Kong Mitsukoshi department store at Shin Kong Life Tower. Other popular shopping destinations include the Zhongshan Metro Mall, Dihua Street and the Guang Hua Digital Plaza. The Miramar Entertainment Park is known for its large Ferris wheel and [[IMAX]] theater.

Taipei maintains an extensive system of parks, green spaces, and nature preserves. Parks and forestry areas of note in and around the city include Yangmingshan National Park, Taipei Zoo and Da-an Forest Park.  Located {{cvt|10|km|mi|sp=us}} north of the city center, Yangmingshan National Park is famous for its cherry blossoms, hot springs, and sulfur deposits. It is the home of famous writer [[Biography:Lin Yutang|Lin Yutang]], the summer residence of Chiang Kai-shek, residences of foreign diplomats, the Chinese Culture University, the meeting place of the now defunct National Assembly of the Republic of China, and the Kuomintang Party Archives. The Taipei Zoo was founded in 1914 and covers an area of 165 hectares for animal sanctuary.

Bitan is known for boating and water sports. Tamsui is a popular sea-side resort town. Ocean beaches are accessible in several directions from Taipei.

====Temples====
[[File:Longshan Temple - Right entrance.jpg|thumb|Built in 1738, Bangka Lungshan Temple is one of the oldest temples in the city.]]

Taipei has a variety of temples dedicating to Deities from [[Religion:Chinese folk religion|Chinese folk religion]], [[Philosophy:Taoism|Taoism]] and Chinese Buddhism. The Bangka Lungshan Temple ({{lang|zh-Hant-TW|艋舺龍山寺}}), built in 1738 and located in the Wanhua District, demonstrates an example of architecture with southern Chinese influences commonly seen on older buildings in Taiwan. Qingshui Temple ({{lang|zh-Hant-TW|艋舺清水巖}}) built in 1787 and Qingshan Temple ({{lang|zh-Hant-TW|艋舺青山宮}}) together with Lungshan Temple are the three most prominent landmark temples in Bangka or Wanhua District.

There are other famous temples include Baoan Temple ({{lang|zh-Hant-TW|大龍峒保安宮}}) located in historic Dalongdong, a national historical site, and Xia Hai City God Temple ({{lang|zh-Hant-TW|大稻埕霞海城隍廟}}), located in the old Dadaocheng community, constructed with architecture similar to temples in southern Fujian.<ref name="temples">{{cite web |url=http://english.taipei.gov.tw/ct.asp?xItem=1100397&ctNode=30283&mp=100002 |title=Longshan Temple, Baoan Temple, and Xiahai City God Temple: Taipei's Glorious Heritage-Site Temples |publisher=Department of Information Technology |date=29 January 2009 |access-date=22 July 2010 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110629113955/http://english.taipei.gov.tw/ct.asp?xItem=1100397&ctNode=30283&mp=100002 |archive-date=29 June 2011}}</ref> The Taipei Confucius Temple ({{lang|zh-Hant-TW|臺北孔子廟}}) traces its history back to 1879 during the Qing Dynasty and also incorporates southern Fujian-style architecture.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://english.uro.taipei.gov.tw/ct.asp?xitem=1186909&ctNode=34442&mp=100002 |title=Taipei Confucius Temple |publisher=Datong District Office, Taipei City |date=26 May 2010 |access-date=22 July 2010 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110815181556/http://english.uro.taipei.gov.tw/ct.asp?xitem=1186909&ctNode=34442&mp=100002 |archive-date=15 August 2011}}</ref> Ciyou Temple ({{lang|zh-Hant-TW|松山慈祐宮}}) in Songshan District, Guandu Temple ({{lang|zh-Hant-TW|關渡宮}}) in Beitou District, Hsing Tian Kong ({{lang|zh-Hant-TW|行天宮}}) in Zhongshan District and Zhinan Temple ({{lang|zh-Hant-TW|指南宮}}) in Wenshan District are also popular temples for locals and tourists. Xinsheng South Road is known as the "Road to Heaven" due to its high concentration of temples, churches, and other houses of worship.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www2.dorts.gov.tw/news/newsletter/ns248/rp248_07.htm |title=Transformation of "Liugong Canal" – Looking Back on Xinsheng South Road |publisher=Department of Rapid Transit Systems |date=1 October 2008 |access-date=22 July 2010 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110912131402/http://www2.dorts.gov.tw/news/newsletter/ns248/rp248_07.htm |archive-date=12 September 2011 |url-status=dead}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://english.taipei.gov.tw/ct.asp?xItem=1104101&ctNode=27830&mp=100002 |title=About Daan District |publisher=Taipei City Government |access-date=22 July 2010 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120307135429/http://english.taipei.gov.tw/ct.asp?xItem=1104101&ctNode=27830&mp=100002 |archive-date=7 March 2012 |url-status=dead}}</ref>

The Shandao Temple ({{lang|zh-Hant-TW|善導寺}}) built in 1929 and located in Zhongzheng District, is the largest Buddhist temple in Taipei. Fo Guang Shan has a modern temple known as Fo Guang Shan Taipei Vihara ({{lang|zh-Hant-TW|佛光山臺北道場}}) in Xinyi District, while Dharma Drum Mountain owns the Degui Academy ({{lang|zh-Hant-TW|德貴學苑}}), an education center in Zhongzheng District and the Nung Chan Monastery ({{lang|zh-Hant-TW|農禪寺}}) in Beitou District. Linji Huguo Chan Temple ({{lang|zh-Hant-TW|臨濟護國禪寺}}) in Zhongshan District was commenced in 1900 and completed in 1911, it is one of the very few Japanese style Buddhist Temples that was well-preserved in Taiwan.

Besides large temples, small outdoor shrines to local deities are very common and are commonly found next to roads as well as in parks and neighborhoods. Many homes and businesses may also set up small shrines of candles, figurines, and offerings. Some restaurants, for example, may set up a small shrine to the [[Religion:Kitchen God|Kitchen God]] for success in a restaurant business.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://wikimania2007.wikimedia.org/wiki/About_Taipei_5:_Religions |title=About Taipei 5: Religions – Wikimania 2007, The International Wikimedia Conference |publisher=Wikimania2007.wikimedia.org |date=26 July 2007 |access-date=27 July 2009 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081227123246/http://wikimania2007.wikimedia.org/wiki/About_Taipei_5:_Religions |archive-date=27 December 2008 |url-status=dead}}</ref>

===Festivals and events===

Many yearly festivals are held in Taipei. In recent years some festivals, such as the Double Ten Day fireworks and concerts, are increasingly hosted on a rotating basis by a number of cities around Taiwan.

When New Year's Eve arrives on the solar calendar, thousands of people converge on Taipei's Xinyi District for parades, outdoor concerts by popular artists, street shows, round-the clock nightlife. The high point is the countdown to midnight, when Taipei 101 assumes the role of the world's largest [[Physics:Fireworks|fireworks]] platform.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Taipei 101 New Year's Eve fireworks set hopeful tone for 2021 (Video) {{!}} Taiwan News {{!}} 2021-01-01 01:37:00 |url=https://www.taiwannews.com.tw/en/news/4091103 |access-date=2021-09-06 |website=Taiwan News |date=January 2021 |archive-date=6 September 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210906183007/https://www.taiwannews.com.tw/en/news/4091103 |url-status=live }}</ref>

The Taipei Lantern Festival concludes the Lunar New Year holiday. The timing of the city's lantern exhibit coincides with the national festival in Pingxi, when thousands of fire lanterns are released into the sky.<ref name="tourism">{{cite web |title=Chapter 19 Tourism |work=Republic of China Yearbook 2008 |publisher=ROC Government Information Office |url=http://www.gio.gov.tw/taiwan-website/5-gp/yearbook/ch19.html |access-date=14 July 2009 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20091105024855/http://www.gio.gov.tw/taiwan-website/5-gp/yearbook/ch19.html |archive-date=5 November 2009}}</ref> The city's lantern exhibit rotates among different downtown locales from year to year, including Liberty Square, Taipei 101, and Zhongshan Hall in Ximending.

On Double Ten Day, patriotic celebrations are held in front of the Presidential Office Building. Other annual festivals include Ancestors Day (Tomb-Sweeping Day), the Dragon Boat Festival, the Zhong Yuan Festival, and the [[Place:Mid-Autumn Festival|Mid-Autumn Festival (Mooncake Festival)]].<ref name="tourism" /> Qing Shan King Sacrificial Ceremony ({{lang|zh-Hant-TW|青山王祭}}) is a century-old grand festival that is held annually in Wanhua District.

Taipei regularly hosts its share of international events. The city recently hosted the 2009 Summer Deaflympics.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://english.2009deaflympics.org/bin/home.php |title=Your Favorite Ebook Site - |website=english.2009deaflympics.org |access-date=26 July 2017 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130604085734/http://english.2009deaflympics.org/bin/home.php |archive-date=4 June 2013}}</ref> This event was followed by the Taipei International Flora Exposition, a garden festival hosted from November 2010 to April 2011. The Floral Expo was the first of its kind to take place in Taiwan and only the seventh hosted in [[Earth:Asia|Asia]]; the expo admitted 110,000 visitors on 27 February 2011.

===Taipei in films===
<small>Note: The list below is not a complete list, they are examples of more notable movies filmed in the city.</small>
{{div col}}
*Arvin Chen's ''Love in Taipei'' (comedy/romance)
*Luc Besson's ''Lucy'' (action/scifi/drama)
*Arvin Chen's ''Au Revoir Taipei'' (comedy)
*Chen Kuo-fu's ''Double Vision'' (horror/suspense)
*Chen Kuo-fu's ''The Personals'' (drama/romance)
*Jay Chou's ''Secret'' (romance)
*Leon Dai's ''No Puedo Vivir Sin Ti'' (drama)
*Hou Hsiao-hsien's ''Dust in the Wind'' (drama)
*Adam Kane and Will Tiao's ''Formosa Betrayed'' (political thriller)
*Andrew Lau's ''Young and Dangerous 2'' (Hong Kong studio, filmed on location in Taipei)
*Lau Kar-wing's ''The Dragon Family'' (Hong Kong studio, filmed in Hong Kong and Taipei) (Action){{Citation needed|reason=The claim that this was filmed in Taipei needs a reliable source. The Wikipedia article does not mention Taipei, nor do its references.|date=December 2016}}
*Ang Lee's ''Eat Drink Man Woman'' (drama)
*Lin Cheng-sheng's ''Betelnut beauty'' (drama/romance)
*Morgan Matthews's ''X+Y'' (drama)
*Doze Niu's ''Monga'' (drama/action)
*Shimoyama Ten, Yee Chin-yen & Zhang Yibai's ''About Love'' (Japanese studio, filmed on three cities in Asia: Taipei, [[Place:Tokyo|Tokyo]], and [[Place:Shanghai|Shanghai]])
*Takahisa Zeze's ''Moon Child'' (Japanese studio, filmed in Taipei, as the futuristic city of Mallepa) (drama)
*Johnnie To & Wai Ka-Fai's ''Turn Left, Turn Right'' (Hong Kong studio, filmed on location in Taipei)
*Tsai Ming-liang's ''Rebels of the Neon God'' (drama)
*Renpei Tsukamoto's ''One Missed Call 2'' (Japanese studio, filmed in Taipei and Jinguashi){{Citation needed |reason=The claim that this was filmed in Taipei needs a reliable source. |date=December 2016}}
*Wei Te-sheng's ''Cape No. 7'' (drama/comedy)
*Robert Wise's ''The Sand Pebbles'' (Hollywood studio, filmed in Taipei, Keelung, Tamsui and [[Place:Hong Kong|Hong Kong]]) (drama)
*John Woo's ''A Better Tomorrow'' (Hong Kong studio, filmed in Hong Kong and Taipei) (action)
*Wong Kar-wai's ''Happy Together'' ([[Place:Hong Kong|Hong Kong]] studio, filmed in three cities : [[Place:Buenos Aires|Buenos Aires]], Hong Kong, and Taipei)
*Kirk Wong's ''Crime Story'' (Hong Kong studio, filmed in Hong Kong, Taipei) (action)
*Edward Yang's ''Yi Yi'' (drama)
*Yee Chin-yen's ''Blue Gate Crossing'' (romance)
{{div col end}}

==Government==
[[File:Taipei_City_Hall_front_view_20050110.jpg|thumb|Taipei City Government]]
[[File:台北市議會.JPG|thumb|Taipei City Council]]

Taipei City is a special municipality which is directly under the Executive Yuan (Central Government). The mayor of Taipei City was an appointed position since Taipei's conversion to a centrally administered municipality in 1967 until the first public election was held in 1994.<ref>{{cite book |last=Kwok |first=R. Yin-Wang |title=Globalizing Taipei |publisher=Routledge |year=2005 |page=201 |isbn=0-415-35451-X}}</ref> The position has a four-year term and is elected by direct popular vote.  The first elected mayor was Chen Shui-bian of the Democratic Progressive Party. Ma Ying-jeou took office in 1998 for two terms, before handing it over to Hau Lung-pin who won the 2006 mayoral election on 9 December 2006.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9803E0DE1431F933A25751C1A9609C8B63 |title=Taiwan Leader's Party Wins in Mayoral Vote, but Recount Is Sought |newspaper=The New York Times |date=10 December 2006 |access-date=14 July 2009 |first=Keith |last=Bradsher |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120307103659/http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9803E0DE1431F933A25751C1A9609C8B63 |archive-date=7 March 2012 |url-status=live}}</ref> Both Chen Shui-bian and Ma Ying-Jeou went on to become President of the Republic of China. 
The incumbent mayor, Chiang Wan-an of Kuomintang, took office on 25 December 2022.

Based on the outcomes of previous elections in the past decade, the vote of the overall constituency of Taipei City shows a slight inclination towards the pro-KMT camp (the [[Social:Pan-Blue Coalition|Pan-Blue Coalition]]);<ref>{{cite news |url=http://www.taipeitimes.com/News/taiwan/archives/2006/12/10/2003339853 |title=Elections 2006: Election results a headache for Ma |newspaper=Taipei Times |date=10 December 2006 |access-date=10 August 2009 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080724140301/http://www.taipeitimes.com/News/taiwan/archives/2006/12/10/2003339853 |archive-date=24 July 2008 |url-status=live}}</ref> however, the pro-DPP camp (the Pan-Green Coalition) also has considerable support.<ref>{{cite news |url=http://www.taipeitimes.com/News/front/archives/2008/01/13/2003397019 |title=KMT wins two-thirds majority |newspaper=Taipei Times |date=13 January 2008 |access-date=10 August 2009 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080724064751/http://www.taipeitimes.com/News/front/archives/2008/01/13/2003397019 |archive-date=24 July 2008 |url-status=live}}</ref>

Ketagalan Boulevard, where the Presidential Office Building and other government structures are situated, is often the site of mass gatherings such as inauguration and national holiday parades, receptions for visiting dignitaries, political demonstrations,<ref>{{cite news |url=http://www.taipeitimes.com/News/front/archives/2006/09/11/2003327070 |title=Rain dampens enthusiasm for protest |newspaper=Taipei Times |date=11 September 2006 |access-date=10 August 2009 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080727000713/http://www.taipeitimes.com/News/front/archives/2006/09/11/2003327070 |archive-date=27 July 2008 |url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |url=http://www.taipeitimes.com/News/taiwan/archives/2008/08/30/2003421826 |title=Pro-localization groups stage rally on Ma's 100th day |newspaper=Taipei Times |date=30 August 2008 |access-date=10 August 2009 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080908053324/http://www.taipeitimes.com/News/taiwan/archives/2008/08/30/2003421826 |archive-date=8 September 2008 |url-status=live}}</ref> and public festivals.<ref>{{cite news |url=http://www.taipeitimes.com/News/taiwan/archives/2006/09/06/2003326391 |title=Clear Ketagalan ahead of Double Ten, Wang urges |newspaper=Taipei Times |date=6 September 2006 |access-date=10 August 2009 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110921051555/http://www.taipeitimes.com/News/taiwan/archives/2006/09/06/2003326391 |archive-date=21 September 2011 |url-status=live}}</ref>

===Garbage recycling===
Taipei City is also famous for its effort in garbage recycling, which has become such a good international precedent that other countries have sent teams to study the recycling system. After the Environmental Protection Administration (EPA) established a program in 1998 combining the efforts of communities, a financial resource named the Recycling Fund was made available to recycling companies and waste collectors. The EPA also introduced garbage recycling trucks, in effort to raise community recycling awareness, that broadcast classical music (specifically Beethoven's "Für Elise" and Tekla Bądarzewska-Baranowska's "A Maiden's Prayer") to announce its arrival to the community.<ref>{{Cite news |url=https://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/01/09/taiwan-garbage-trucks-music_n_1195020.html |title=Taiwan Garbage Trucks: Classical Music Accompanies Collection (VIDEO) |date=9 January 2012 |work=Huffington Post |access-date=8 June 2018 |language=en-US |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171005113810/http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/01/09/taiwan-garbage-trucks-music_n_1195020.html |archive-date=5 October 2017 |url-status=live}}</ref> Manufacturers, vendors and importers of recyclable waste pay fees to the Fund, which uses the money to set firm prices for recyclables and subsidize local recycling efforts. Between 1998 and 2008, the recycling rate increased from 6 percent to 32 percent.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://taiwanreview.nat.gov.tw/ct.asp?xItem=93434&ctNode=1337&mp=1 |title=Recycling: Taiwan's Way of Life |publisher=Taiwan Review |date=1 March 2010 |access-date=31 August 2010 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101206120553/http://taiwanreview.nat.gov.tw/ct.asp?xItem=93434&CtNode=1337&mp=1 |archive-date=6 December 2010}}</ref> This improvement enabled the government of Taipei to demonstrate its recycling system to the world at the Shanghai World Expo 2010.

===Administrative divisions===
Taipei City is divided up into 12 administrative districts ({{zh|labels=no |t=區 |p=qū}}).<ref>{{cite web |url=http://english.taipei.gov.tw/np.asp?ctNode=27185&mp=100002 |title=Administrative Districts |publisher=Taipei City Government |access-date=11 July 2010 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100715110737/http://english.taipei.gov.tw/np.asp?ctNode=27185&mp=100002 |archive-date=15 July 2010 |url-status=live}}</ref> Each district is further divided up into urban villages ({{lang|zh|里}}), which are further sub-divided up into neighborhoods ({{lang|zh|鄰}}). Xinyi District is the seat of the municipality where the Taipei City Government headquarters is located.
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!rowspan=2|Map!!colspan=5|District!!rowspan=2|Population<br /><small>(Jan. 2016)</small>
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!Name<ref name="map">{{cite web |url=https://english.gov.taipei/Content_List.aspx?n=02D12F5BE6C0FC93 |title=Administrative Districts |quote=There are 12 administrative districts in the Taipei City, including Songshan, Xinyi, Daan, Zhongshan, Zhongzheng, Datong, Wanhua,Wenshan, Nangang, Neihu, Shilin, and Beitou |access-date=22 June 2019 |website=Taipei City Government |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190327002914/https://english.gov.taipei/Content_List.aspx?n=02D12F5BE6C0FC93 |archive-date=27 March 2019 |url-status=dead}}</ref>!![[Social:Chinese characters|Chinese]]<ref name="govtp">{{cite web |url=https://www.gov.taipei/cp.aspx?n=1F076481DD9E556B |script-title=zh:臺北行政區 |trans-title=Taipei Administrative Divisions |access-date=30 March 2019 |date=20 February 2019 |publisher={{lang|zh-hant|臺北市政府全球資訊網}} |language=zh-hant|quote={{lang|zh-hant|現劃分12行政區，{...}北投區公所 士林區公所 中山區公所 內湖區公所 大同區公所 松山區公所 萬華區公所 中正區公所 大安區公所 信義區公所 南港區公所 文山區公所}}}}</ref>!![[Pinyin]]!![[Social:Wade–Giles|Wade–Giles]]!![[Social:Pe̍h-ōe-jī|Pe̍h-ōe-jī]]
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{{Image label|x=155|y=170|scale=450/750|text=<span style="color: white;">'''{{small|Beitou}}'''</span>}}
{{Image label|x=280|y=240|scale=450/750|text=<span style="color: black;">'''{{small|Shilin}}'''</span>}}
{{Image label|x=350|y=380|scale=450/750|text=<span style="color: black;">'''{{small|Neihu}}'''</span>}}
{{Image label|x=200|y=400|scale=450/750|text=<span style="color: black;">'''{{small|Zhongshan}}'''</span>}}
{{Image label|x=270|y=430|scale=450/750|text=<span style="color: black;">'''{{small|Song-<br />shan}}'''</span>}}
{{Image label|x=110|y=430|scale=450/750|text=<span style="color: black;">'''{{small|Datong}}'''</span>}}
{{Image label|x=155|y=505|scale=450/750|text=<span style="color: black;">'''{{small|Zhong-<br />zheng}}'''</span>}}
{{Image label|x=080|y=570|scale=450/750|text=<span style="color: black;">'''{{small|Wanhua}}'''</span>}}
{{Image label|x=210|y=560|scale=450/750|text=<span style="color: black;">'''{{small|Daan}}'''</span>}}
{{Image label|x=300|y=540|scale=450/750|text=<span style="color: black;">'''{{small|Xinyi}}'''</span>}}
{{Image label|x=390|y=545|scale=450/750|text=<span style="color: white;">'''{{small|Nangang}}'''</span>}}
{{Image label|x=290|y=660|scale=450/750|text=<span style="color: black;">'''{{small|Wenshan}}'''</span>}}
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</div>
|Beitou
|{{lang|zh-Hant-TW|北投區}}||Běitóu||Pei-t'ou||{{linktext|Pak-tâu}}
|align=right|257,922||align=right|56.8216||112
|-
|Daan <small>(Da-an, Da'an)</small>
|{{lang|zh-Hant-TW|大安區}}||Dà'ān||Ta-an||{{linktext|Tāi-an}}
|align=right|312,909||align=right|11.3614||106
|-
|Datong
|{{lang|zh-Hant-TW|大同區}}||Dàtóng||Ta-t'ung||{{linktext|Tāi-tông}}
|align=right|131,029||align=right|5.6815||103
|-
|Nangang <small>(Nankang)</small>
|{{lang|zh-Hant-TW|南港區}}||Nángǎng||Nan-kang||{{linktext|Lâm-káng}}
|align=right|122,296||align=right|21.8424||115
|-
|Neihu
|{{lang|zh-Hant-TW|內湖區}}||Nèihú||Nei-hu||{{linktext|Lāi-ô͘}}
|align=right|287,726||align=right|31.5787||114
|-
|Shilin
|{{lang|zh-Hant-TW|士林區}}||Shìlín||Shih-lin||{{linktext|Sū-lîm}}
|align=right|290,682||align=right|62.3682||111
|-
|Songshan
|{{lang|zh-Hant-TW|松山區}}||Sōngshān||Sung-shan||{{linktext|Siông-san}}
|align=right|209,689||align=right|9.2878||105
|-
|Wanhua
|{{lang|zh-Hant-TW|萬華區}}||Wànhuá||Wan-hua||{{linktext|Báng-kah}}
|align=right|194,314||align=right|8.8522||108
|-
|Wenshan
|{{lang|zh-Hant-TW|文山區}}||Wénshān||Wen-shan||{{linktext|Bûn-san}}
|align=right|275,433||align=right|31.5090||116
|-
|Xinyi
|{{lang|zh-Hant-TW|信義區}}||Xìnyì||Hsin-yi||{{linktext|Sìn-gī}}
|align=right|229,139||align=right|11.2077||110
|-
|Zhongshan
|{{lang|zh-Hant-TW|中山區}}||Zhōngshān||Chung-shan||{{linktext|Tiong-san}}
|align=right|231,286||align=right|13.6821||104
|-
|Zhongzheng
|{{lang|zh-Hant-TW|中正區}}||Zhōngzhèng||Chung-cheng||{{linktext|Tiong-chèng}}
|align=right|162,549||align=right|7.6071||100
|}

===City planning===
The city is characterized by straight roads and public buildings of grand Western architectural styles.<ref name="jones">{{cite book |last=Jones |first=Ian |title=City Museums and City Development |publisher=Rowman & Littlefield |year=2008 |page=102 |isbn=978-0-7591-1180-6}}</ref> The city is built on a square grid configuration; however, these blocks are huge by international standards with {{cvt|500|m|2|abbr=on}} sides. The area in between these blocks is infilled with lanes and alleys, which provide access to quieter residential or mixed-use development. Other than a citywide {{cvt|30|km/h|mph|abbr=on}} speed limit, there is little uniform planning within this "hidden" area; therefore, lanes (perpendicular to streets) and alleys (parallel with streets, or, conceptually, perpendicular to lanes) spill out from the main controlled-access highways. These minor roads are not always perpendicular and sometimes cut through the block diagonally.

Although development began in the western districts of the city (still considered the cultural heart of Taipei) due to trade, the eastern districts have become the focus of recent development projects. Many of the western districts have become targets of urban renewal initiatives.<ref name="jones" />

==Transportation==
[[File:Wende Station platform.jpg|thumb|Platform of Wende Station on the Taipei Metro system.]]
[[Engineering:Public transport|Public transport]] accounts for a substantial portion of different modes of transport in Taiwan, with Taipei residents having the highest utilization rate at 34.1%.<ref name="pubtrans">{{cite web |url=http://news.asiaone.com/News/Latest%2BNews/Asia/Story/A1Story20100206-197064.html |title=Only 13% using Taiwan's public transport |publisher=The China Post/Asia News Network |date=6 February 2010 |access-date=8 February 2010 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110927205100/http://news.asiaone.com/News/Latest%2BNews/Asia/Story/A1Story20100206-197064.html |archive-date=27 September 2011 |url-status=dead}}</ref> Private transport consists of [[Engineering:Scooter (motorcycle)|motor scooters]], private cars, taxi cabs, and [[Engineering:Bicycle|bicycle]]s. Motor-scooters often weave between cars and occasionally through oncoming traffic. Respect for traffic laws, once scant, has improved with deployment of traffic cameras and increasing numbers of police roadblocks checking riders for alcohol consumption and other offenses.

Taipei Main Station serves as the comprehensive hub for the subway, bus, conventional rail, and high-speed rail.<ref name="tpctoday">{{cite web |url=http://english.taipei.gov.tw/TCG/index.jsp?categid=36&recordid=600 |title=Taipei City Today |date=17 August 2004 |publisher=Taipei City Government |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131104064528/http://english.taipei.gov.tw/TCG/index.jsp?categid=36&recordid=600 |archive-date=4 November 2013 |url-status=dead |access-date=11 August 2009}}</ref> A [[Contactless smart card|contactless smartcard]], known as EasyCard, can be used for all modes of public transit as well as several retail outlets. It contains credits that are deducted each time a ride is taken.<ref>{{cite web |title=Metro Tickets |publisher=Taipei Rapid Transit Corporation |url=http://www.trtc.com.tw/e/service.asp?catid=%E4%B9%98%E8%BB%8A%E6%8C%87%E5%8D%97&small=%E8%BB%8A%E7%A5%A8%E7%A8%AE%E9%A1%9E |access-date=14 July 2009 |archive-url=https://archive.today/20080822071721/http://www.trtc.com.tw/e/service.asp?catid=%E4%B9%98%E8%BB%8A%E6%8C%87%E5%8D%97&small=%E8%BB%8A%E7%A5%A8%E7%A8%AE%E9%A1%9E |archive-date=22 August 2008}}</ref> The EasyCard is read via MIFARE panels on buses and in MRT stations, and it does not need to be removed from one's wallet or purse.

===Metro===
Taipei's public transport system, the Taipei Metro (commonly referred to as the MRT), incorporates a metro and [[Engineering:Light rail|light rail]] system based on advanced [[Engineering:Véhicule Automatique Léger|VAL]] and Bombardier technology. There are currently six metro lines that are organized and labeled in three ways: by color, line number and depot station name. In addition to the rapid transit system itself, the Taipei Metro also includes several public facilities such as the Maokong Gondola, underground shopping malls, parks, and public squares. Modifications to existing railway lines to integrate them into the metro system are underway.

In 2017 a rapid transit line was opened to connect Taipei with Taiwan Taoyuan International Airport and Zhongli District. The new line is part of the new Taoyuan Metro system.

On 31 January 2020, Hitachi Rail Corporation officially commissioned Phase 1 of the Circular line which took place at Shisizhang station. The Circular line is a 15.4&nbsp;km driverless rail system. The Circular line offered free rides beginning in February 2020 for passengers to test the route.<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://railway-news.com/hitachi-rail-taipei-metro-circular-line/ |title=Hitachi Rail Commissions Phase 1 of Taipei Metro Circular Line |date=2020-02-03 |website=Railway-News |access-date=2020-03-03 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200301052706/https://railway-news.com/hitachi-rail-taipei-metro-circular-line/ |archive-date=1 March 2020 |url-status=dead}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |url=https://focustaiwan.tw/society/202002250014 |title=Free rides on MRT Circular Line to end Saturday - Focus Taiwan |website=focustaiwan.tw |language=zh-Hant-TW |access-date=2020-03-03 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200303022214/https://focustaiwan.tw/society/202002250014 |archive-date=3 March 2020 |url-status=dead}}</ref>

[[File:East 1 gate, TRA Taipei Station 20081004.jpg|thumb|Taipei Main Station front]]

===Rail===
Beginning in 1983, surface rail lines in the city were moved underground as part of the Taipei Railway Underground Project.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.rrb.gov.tw/04100.aspx?id=1&lan=en |title=Taipei Main Station Project |publisher=Railway Reconstruction Bureau, Ministry of Transportation and Communications |access-date=23 February 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131209014703/http://www.rrb.gov.tw/04100.aspx?id=1&lan=en |archive-date=9 December 2013 |url-status=live}}</ref> The [[Company:Taiwan High Speed Rail|Taiwan High Speed Rail]] system opened in 2007. The bullet trains connect Taipei with the west coast cities of New Taipei, Taoyuan, Hsinchu, Taichung, Chiayi, and Tainan before terminating at Zuoying (Kaohsiung) at speeds that cut travel times by 60% or more from what they normally are on a bus or conventional train.<ref>{{cite web |title=CHAPTER 13 Transportation and Telecommunications |work=Republic of China Yearbook 2008 |publisher=ROC Government Information Office |url=http://www.gio.gov.tw/taiwan-website/5-gp/yearbook/ch13.html |access-date=14 July 2009 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20091213032158/http://www.gio.gov.tw/taiwan-website/5-gp/yearbook/ch13.html |archive-date=13 December 2009}}</ref> The Taiwan Railways Administration also runs passenger and freight services throughout the entire island.

===Bus===
An extensive city bus system serves metropolitan areas not covered by the metro, with exclusive bus lanes to facilitate transportation.<ref name="tpctoday" /> Riders of the city metro system are able to use the EasyCard for discounted fares on buses, and vice versa. A unique feature of the Taipei bus system is the joint venture of private transportation companies that operate the system's routes while sharing the fare system. This route is in sharp contrast to bus systems in the U.S. which are mostly public entities. Several major intercity bus terminals are located throughout the city, including the Taipei Bus Station and Taipei City Hall Bus Station.<ref>{{cite news |url=http://www.taipeitimes.com/News/taiwan/archives/2010/05/24/2003473719/print |title=Traffic chaos expected in Xinyi |newspaper=Taipei Times |date=24 May 2010 |access-date=11 July 2010 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111201204445/http://www.taipeitimes.com/News/taiwan/archives/2010/05/24/2003473719/print |archive-date=1 December 2011 |url-status=live}}</ref>
[[File:Taipei Songshan Airport 1st Terminal Building 20090926.JPG|thumb|Taipei Songshan Airport]]

===Airports===
Most scheduled international flights are served by Taoyuan International Airport in nearby Taoyuan City. Taipei Songshan Airport, at the heart of the city in the Songshan District, serves domestic flights and scheduled flights to Haneda Airport in [[Place:Tokyo|Tokyo]], Gimpo International Airport in [[Place:Seoul|Seoul]], and about 15 destinations in the {{wipe|China}}. Songshan Airport is accessible by the Taipei Metro Neihu Line; Taoyuan International Airport is accessible by the Taoyuan Airport MRT.

===Ticketing===
In 1994, following the rapid development of Taipei, a white paper for transport policies expressed the strong objective of creating a transport system for the people of Taipei to accommodate the burgeoning city's needs. In 1999, they chose Mitac consortium, which Thales-Transportation Systems is part of. Thales was then selected again in 2005 to deploy an upgrade of Taipei's public transport network with an end-to-end and fully contactless automatic fare collection solution that integrates 116 metro stations, 5,000 buses and 92 car parks.{{citation needed|date=December 2016}}

==Education==
[[File:臺灣總督府臺北醫院.jpg|thumb|''West Site'' of National Taiwan University Hospital]]

Taipei is home to the campuses of 24 universities and Academia Sinica, Taiwan's national academy which supports the Taiwan International Graduate Program:

{|
|-
|  style="vertical-align:top; width:65%;"|
*Academia Sinica (1928/1949)
*National Taiwan University (1928)
*National Chengchi University (1927)
*National Defense Medical Center (1902)
*National Defense University (1906)
*National Taipei University (1949)
*National Taipei University of Business (1917)
*National Taipei University of Education (1895)
*National Taipei University of Nursing and Health Science (1947)
*National Taiwan University of Science and Technology (1974)
*National Taipei University of Technology (1912)
*National Taiwan College of Performing Arts (1957)
*National Taiwan Normal University (1922/1946)
*National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University (1975)
*Taipei National University of the Arts (1982)
*University of Taipei (2013)
| valign="top" |
*Tamkang University (1950)
*Soochow University (1900)
*Chinese Culture University (1962)
*Ming Chuan University (1957)
*Shih Hsin University (1956)
*Shih Chien University (1958)
*Taipei Medical University (1960)
*Tatung University (1956)
*China University of Technology (1965)
|}

National Taiwan University (NTU or ''Tai-Da'') was established in 1928 during the period of Japanese colonial rule. NTU has produced many political and social leaders in Taiwan. Both pan-blue and pan-green movements in Taiwan are rooted on the NTU campus. The university has six campuses in the greater Taipei region (including New Taipei) and two additional campuses in Nantou County. The university governs farms, forests, and hospitals for educational and research purposes. The main campus is in Taipei's Da-An district, where most department buildings and all the administrative buildings are located. The College of Law and the College of Medicine are located near the Presidential Office Building. The National Taiwan University Hospital is a leading international center of medical research.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.ntu.edu.tw/english/about+ntu/location/ntumap.htm |title=National Taiwan University – About NTU |date=6 August 2007 |access-date=27 July 2009}}{{Dead link|date=July 2018 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref>

National Taiwan Normal University (NTNU or ''Shi-Da'') likewise traces its origins to the Japanese colonial period. Founded as Taihoku College in 1922 and organized as a teacher training institution by the Kuomintang in 1946, NTNU has since developed into a comprehensive international university. The university boasts especially strong programs in the humanities and international education. Worldwide it is perhaps best known as home of the Mandarin Training Center, a program that offers Mandarin language training each year to over a thousand students from scores of countries throughout the world.  The main campus, in Taipei's Daan district near MRT Guting Station, is known for its historic architecture. The Shida market area surrounding this campus takes its name from the school's acronym.

==Sports==
[[File:Taipei Mini-Big Egg 02.jpg|thumb|Taipei Arena]]
[[File:Tianmubaseballstadium01.jpg|thumb|Tianmu Baseball Stadium]]

Wei Chuan Dragons of Taiwan's Chinese Professional Baseball League is a professional baseball team based in Taipei.<ref>{{cite web |title=Dragons |url=https://en.cpbl.com.tw/team?ClubNo=AAA |website=CPBL |publisher=Chinese Professional Baseball League |access-date=1 January 2023 |archive-date=1 January 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230101211935/https://en.cpbl.com.tw/team?ClubNo=AAA |url-status=live }}</ref> The Taipei Highwealth team of the Popcorn League is also based in Taipei, co-sponsored by the Taipei City Government and Highwealth Construction.

Taipei also has two professional basketball teams, the TaiwanBeer HeroBears of the T1 League<ref>{{cite web |title=關於T1 |url=https://t1league.basketball/about |publisher=T1 League |access-date=1 January 2023 |archive-date=1 January 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230101200130/https://t1league.basketball/about |url-status=live }}</ref> and the Taipei Fubon Braves of the P. League+.<ref>{{cite web |title=關於 P. League+ |url=https://pleagueofficial.com/about |publisher=P. League+ |access-date=1 January 2023 |archive-date=20 January 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220120141412/https://pleagueofficial.com/about |url-status=live }}</ref>

===Major sporting events===
Below is a selected list of recent sporting events hosted by the city:
*2004 FIFA Futsal World Championship
*2006 Women's Baseball World Cup
*2007 Baseball World Cup
*2009 Asian Judo Championships
*2009 Summer Deaflympics
*2013 Badminton Asia Championships
*2015 WBSC Premier12
*2016 IIHF Women's Challenge Cup of Asia Division I
*2017 Summer Universiade
*2019 Asian Men's Club Volleyball Championship
*2022 U-23 Baseball World Cup (co-hosted with Taichung and Yunlin)
*2023 Asian Men's Volleyball Challenge Cup
*2023 IKF World Korfball Championship 	
*2023 U-18 Baseball World Cup (Co-hosted with Taichung)
*2024 World Junior Figure Skating Championships
*2025 Summer World Masters Games (co-host with New Taipei City)
*Taipei Marathon (annual): The marathon is one of the two World Athletics Label Road Races in Taiwan, being categorized as an Elite Label Road Race. The other race is the New Taipei City Wan Jin Shi Marathon, categorized as a Gold Label Road Race.<ref>{{cite web |title=World Athletics Label Road Races |url=https://worldathletics.org/competitions/world-athletics-label-road-races/calendar-results |website=World Athletics |access-date=10 July 2023}}</ref>

The Taipei Arena is located at the site of the former Taipei Municipal Baseball Stadium (demolished in 2000), with a capacity of over 15,000. It was opened on 1 December 2005 and has since held more art and cultural activities (such as live concerts) than sporting events, which it was originally designed for.<ref>{{Cite news |script-title=zh:又來了 小巨蛋沒有LED計分器 |url=http://news.chinatimes.com/2007Cti/2007Cti-News/2007Cti-News-Content/0,4521,11051203+112007031500296,00.html |archive-url  =https://web.archive.org/web/20070318012556/http://news.chinatimes.com/2007Cti/2007Cti-News/2007Cti-News-Content/0,4521,11051203+112007031500296,00.html |url-status=dead |archive-date=18 March 2007 |work=China Times |date=14 March 2007 |language=zh}}</ref> The Chinese Taipei Ice Hockey League plays out of the auxiliary arena.

Taipei Dome and Tianmu Baseball Stadium are the major baseball venues in Taipei. The Taipei Dome, which has the capacity to house 40,071 seats, is estimated to finish construction by the end of 2023.<ref>{{cite web |last1=Duncan |first1=DeAeth |title=Taipei Dome to open before end of 2023 |url=https://www.taiwannews.com.tw/en/news/4871417 |website=Taiwan News |date=22 April 2023 |access-date=10 July 2023}}</ref>

Taipei Municipal Stadium is a multipurpose stadium that hosts football and track and field events, as well as concerts, both live and prerecorded.<ref name="MyUser_Https:_December_12_2020c">{{cite web |url=https://www.taipeitimes.com/News/lang/archives/2020/06/05/2003737626 |title=Mayday keeps promise by staging online concert in May 五月天遵守「五月之約」 線上全球開唱 - Taipei Times |newspaper=Https |date=5 June 2020 |access-date=December 12, 2020 |archive-date=9 November 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201109015123/https://www.taipeitimes.com/News/lang/archives/2020/06/05/2003737626 |url-status=live }}</ref> Originally built in 1956, it was demolished and reconstructed in 2009.<ref>{{cite news |script-title=zh:台北聽奧主場館 明正式啟用 |url=http://www.libertytimes.com.tw/2009/new/jul/22/today-sp3.htm |work=Liberty Times |date=22 July 2009 |language=zh |access-date=5 December 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120615172207/http://www.libertytimes.com.tw/2009/new/jul/22/today-sp3.htm |archive-date=15 June 2012 |url-status=live}}</ref>

===Youth baseball===
In 2010, a Taipei baseball team—Chung-Ching Junior Little League—won the Junior League World Series. The achievement came after winning the Asia-Pacific Region, then defeating the Mexico Region and Latin America Region champions to become the International champion, and finally defeating the U.S. champion (Southwest Region), Rose Capital East LL (Tyler, Texas), 9–1.<ref>{{cite news |title=Taiwan wins Junior League World Series |url=https://taiwantoday.tw/news.php?unit=10,23,45,10&post=16988 |access-date=24 February 2019 |agency=Taiwan Today |publisher=Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Republic of China (Taiwan) |date=23 August 2010 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190224174030/https://taiwantoday.tw/news.php?unit=10,23,45,10&post=16988 |archive-date=24 February 2019 |url-status=live}}</ref> Taiwan's Little League World Series international team has won 17 championships, the most wins in the league.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.littleleague.org/series/history/divisions/llbbhistory.htm |title=Little League Baseball |website=www.littleleague.org |access-date=26 July 2017 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071017034525/http://www.littleleague.org/series/history/divisions/llbbhistory.htm |archive-date=17 October 2007}}</ref>

==Media==
[[File:Taiwan TVBS Nangang Building.JPG|thumb|TVBS-G produces programs mainly from their Nangang building in Taipei City.]]

As the capital, Taipei City is the headquarters for many television and radio stations in Taiwan and the center of some of the country's largest newspapers.

===Television===
Television stations located in Taipei include the CTS Education and Culture, CTS Recreation, CTV MyLife, CTV News Channel, China Television, Chinese Television System, Chung T'ien Television, Dimo TV, Eastern Television, Era Television, FTV News, Follow Me TV, Formosa TV, Gala Television, Public Television Service, SET Metro, SET News, SET Taiwan, Sanlih E-Television, Shuang Xing, TTV Family, TTV Finance, TTV World, TVBS, TVBS-G, TVBS-NEWS, Taiwan Broadcasting System, Videoland Television Network and Taiwan Television.

===Newspapers===
Newspapers include ''Apple Daily'', ''Central Daily News'', ''The China Post'', ''China Times'', ''DigiTimes'', ''Kinmen Daily News'', ''Liberty Times'', ''Mandarin Daily News'', ''Matsu Daily'', ''Min Sheng Bao'', ''Sharp Daily'', ''Taipei Times'', ''Taiwan Daily'', ''Taiwan News'', ''Taiwan Times'' and ''United Daily News''.

==International relations==
Taipei was a member of the Asian Network of Major Cities 21 before its dissolvement.

===Twin towns and sister cities===
Taipei is twinned with:<ref name="Taipei sisters">[http://www.edunet.taipei.gov.tw/attach/The%2045%20Sister%20Cities%20list.doc Taipei Sister city list] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140410023801/http://www.edunet.taipei.gov.tw/attach/The%2045%20Sister%20Cities%20list.doc |date=10 April 2014 }} Taipei City Council</ref><ref name="TaipeiTwin">{{cite web |url=http://www.tcc.gov.tw/en/cp.aspx?n=81569D74DD82C7DB |title=Taipei City Council |access-date=20 October 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161023112126/http://www.tcc.gov.tw/en/cp.aspx?n=81569D74DD82C7DB |archive-date=23 October 2016 |url-status=live}}</ref>

==== United States ====
{{Div col|colwidth=20em}}
*{{flagdeco|USA}} Houston, {{wipe|Texas}}, United States (1961)
*{{flagdeco|USA}} {{wipe|San Francisco}}, {{wipe|California}}, United States (1970)
*{{flagdeco|USA}} Guam, United States (1973)
*{{flagdeco|USA}} Cleveland, OH, United States (1975)<ref name="Cleveland sisters">{{cite web |url=http://www.sister-cities.org/interactive-map/Cleveland,%20Ohio |title=Sister Cities International (SCI) |publisher=Sister-cities.org |access-date=21 April 2013 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150613003251/http://www.sister-cities.org/interactive-map/Cleveland%2C%20Ohio |archive-date=13 June 2015}}</ref>
*{{flagdeco|USA}} [[Place:Indianapolis|Indianapolis]], {{wipe|Indiana}}, United States (1978)
*{{flagdeco|USA}} Marshall, {{wipe|Texas}}, United States (1978)
*{{flagdeco|USA}} Atlanta, GA, United States (1979)
*{{flagdeco|USA}} {{wipe|Los Angeles}}, {{wipe|California}}, United States (1979)
*{{flagdeco|USA}} Phoenix, AZ, United States (1979)<ref name="Phoenix sisters">{{cite web |url=http://www.phoenixsistercities.org |title=Phoenix Sister Cities |access-date=6 August 2013 |publisher=Phoenix Sister Cities |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130724085207/http://www.phoenixsistercities.org/ |archive-date=24 July 2013}}</ref>
*{{flagdeco|USA}} Oklahoma City, OK, United States (1981)
*{{flagdeco|USA}} Boston, {{wipe|Massachusetts}}, United States (1996)
*{{flagdeco|USA}} Dallas, {{wipe|Texas}}, United States (1996)<ref name="Dallas sisters">{{cite web |url=http://www.dallas-ecodev.org/international/sister-cities/ |title=Sister Cities |publisher=Dallas-ecodev.org |access-date=23 May 2010 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100528113422/http://www.dallas-ecodev.org/international/sister-cities |archive-date=28 May 2010}}</ref>
{{div col end}}

==== Outside United States ====
{{Div col|colwidth=20em}}
*{{flagdeco|TGO}} [[Place:Lomé|Lomé]], Togo (1966)
*{{flagdeco|PHL}} [[Place:Manila|Manila]], Philippines (1966)
*{{flagdeco|BEN}} Cotonou, Benin (1967)
*{{flagdeco|PHL}} [[Place:Quezon City|Quezon City]], Philippines (1968)<ref name="QuezonCityGovPH-SisterCities">{{cite web |title=Sister Cities |url=http://quezoncity.gov.ph/index.php/quezon-city-business-district/350-sister-cities |website=The Local Government of Quezon City |access-date=9 April 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171001010801/http://quezoncity.gov.ph/index.php/quezon-city-business-district/350-sister-cities |archive-date=1 October 2017}}</ref>
*{{flagdeco|KOR}} [[Place:Seoul|Seoul]], South Korea (1968)<ref name="Seoul twinnings2">{{cite web |url=http://english.seoul.go.kr/gover/cooper/coo_02sis.html |title=International Cooperation: Sister Cities |access-date=26 January 2008 |work=Seoul Metropolitan Government |publisher=seoul.go.kr |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071210175055/http://english.seoul.go.kr/gover/cooper/coo_02sis.html |archive-date=10 December 2007}}</ref><ref name="Seoul twinnings">{{cite web |url=http://english.seoul.go.kr/gtk/cg/cityhall.php?pidx=6 |archive-url=https://archive.today/20120325052520/http://english.seoul.go.kr/gtk/cg/cityhall.php?pidx=6 |url-status=dead |archive-date=25 March 2012 |title=Seoul -Sister Cities [via WayBackMachine] |access-date=23 August 2013 |work=Seoul Metropolitan Government (archived 2012-04-25)}}</ref>
*{{flagdeco|DOM}} [[Place:Santo Domingo|Santo Domingo]], Dominican Republic (1970)
*{{flagdeco|SAU}} Jeddah, Saudi Arabia (1978)
*{{flagdeco|AUS}} Gold Coast, Queensland, Australia (1982)
*{{flagdeco|ZAF}} [[Place:Johannesburg|Johannesburg]], South Africa (1982)
*{{flagdeco|ZAF}} [[Place:Pretoria|Pretoria]], South Africa (1983)
*{{flagdeco|MWI}} [[Place:Lilongwe|Lilongwe]], Malawi (1984)
*{{flagdeco|CRC}} [[Place:San José, Costa Rica|San José]], Costa Rica (1984)
*{{flagdeco|FRA}} Versailles, France (1986)
*{{flagdeco|PRY}} [[Place:Asunción|Asunción]], Paraguay (1987)
*{{flagdeco|PAN}} [[Place:Panama City|Panama City]], Panama (1989)
*{{flagdeco|NIC}} [[Place:Managua|Managua]], Nicaragua (1992)
*{{flagdeco|SLV}} [[Place:San Salvador|San Salvador]], El Salvador (1993)
*{{flagdeco|POL}} [[Place:Warsaw|Warsaw]], Masovian Voivodeship, Poland (1995)<ref name="Warsaw">{{cite web |url=http://um.warszawa.pl/v_syrenka/new/index.php?dzial=aktualnosci&ak_id=3284&kat=11 |title=Miasta partnerskie Warszawy |work=um.warszawa.pl |publisher=Biuro Promocji Miasta |date=4 May 2005 |access-date=29 August 2008 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071011111033/http://um.warszawa.pl/v_syrenka/new/index.php?dzial=aktualnosci&ak_id=3284&kat=11 |archive-date=11 October 2007}}</ref>
*{{flagdeco|RUS}} Ulan-Ude, Buryatia, Russia (1996)
*{{flagdeco|SEN}} [[Place:Dakar|Dakar]], Senegal (1997)
*{{flagdeco|GMB}} [[Place:Banjul|Banjul]], Gambia (1997)
*{{flagdeco|GNB}} [[Place:Bissau|Bissau]], Guinea-Bissau (1997)
*{{flagdeco|SWZ}} [[Place:Mbabane|Mbabane]], Eswatini (1997)
*{{flagdeco|MGL}} [[Place:Ulaanbaatar|Ulaanbaatar]], Mongolia (1997)
*{{flagdeco|MEX}} San Nicolás, Nuevo León, Mexico (1997)
*{{flagdeco|BOL}} [[Place:La Paz|La Paz]], Bolivia (1997)
*{{flagdeco|GTM}} [[Place:Guatemala City|Guatemala City]], Guatemala (1998)
*{{flagdeco|LBR}} [[Place:Monrovia|Monrovia]], Liberia (1998)
*{{flagdeco|LTU}} [[Place:Vilnius|Vilnius]], Lithuania (1998)
*{{flagdeco|MHL}} [[Place:Majuro|Majuro]], Marshall Islands (1999)
*{{flagdeco|LAT}} [[Place:Riga|Riga]], Latvia (2001)<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.riga.lv/EN/Channels/Riga_Municipality/Twin_cities_of_Riga/default.htm |title=Twin cities of Riga |publisher=Riga City Council |access-date=27 July 2009 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081204021323/http://www.riga.lv/EN/Channels/Riga_Municipality/Twin_cities_of_Riga/default.htm |archive-date=4 December 2008 |url-status=live}}</ref>
*{{flagdeco|BUR}} [[Place:Ouagadougou|Ouagadougou]], Burkina Faso (2008)
*{{flagdeco|KOR}} Daegu, South Korea (2010)
*{{flagdeco|ECU}} [[Place:Quito|Quito]], Ecuador (2015/2016)
*{{flagdeco|LCA}} [[Place:Castries|Castries]], St. Lucia (2015/2016)
*{{flagdeco|BLZ}} [[Place:Belmopan|Belmopan]], Belize (2019)
*{{flagdeco|CZE}} [[Place:Prague|Prague]], Czech Republic (2020)<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://thediplomat.com/2019/12/whats-behind-the-prague-taipei-sister-city-ties/ |title=What's Behind the Prague-Taipei Sister City Ties? |website=thediplomat.com |access-date=12 January 2020 |archive-date=27 December 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191227063234/https://thediplomat.com/2019/12/whats-behind-the-prague-taipei-sister-city-ties/ |url-status=live }}</ref>
*{{flagdeco|PER}} [[Place:Lima|Lima]], Peru (2020)
{{div col end}}

===Partner cities===
*{{flagdeco|US}} Anchorage, [[Earth:Alaska|AK]], United States (1997)<ref name="TaipeiTwin"/>
*{{flagdeco|JPN}} Yokohama, Kanagawa, Japan (2006)
*{{flagdeco|NZL}} [[Place:Wellington|Wellington]], New Zealand (2015)<ref>{{cite web |title=International Sister Cities |url=https://www.tcc.gov.tw/en/cp.aspx?n=13702 |website=Taipei City Council |access-date=25 February 2022 |archive-date=21 June 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220621183320/https://www.tcc.gov.tw/en/cp.aspx?n=13702 |url-status=live }}</ref>

===Friendship cities===
*{{flagdeco|AUS}} Perth, Western Australia, Australia (1999)<ref name="TaipeiTwin"/>
*{{flagdeco|KOR}} Gyeonggi-do, South Korea (2000)
*{{flagdeco|US}} Orange County, {{wipe|California}}, United States (2000)<ref name="TaipeiTwin"/>
*{{flagdeco|MYS}} George Town, Penang, Malaysia (2009)
*{{flagdeco|FIN}} [[Place:Helsinki|Helsinki]], Finland (2012)<ref name="TaipeiTwin"/>

==In popular culture==
*Taipei's name is used in a professional wrestling match named the "Taipei Deathmatch" in which the wrestlers' fists are taped and dipped into glue and in broken and crushed glass, allowing shards to stick to their fists. This match can be won by pinfall, submission or escape.<ref name=taip>{{cite book |title=Hardcore History: The Extremely Unauthorized Story of ECW |author=Scott E. Williams |pages=65 |publisher=Sports Publishing LLC |year=2007 |isbn=978-1-59670-021-5 |title-link=Hardcore History}}</ref>
*Writer Tao Lin's 2013 novel is titled ''Taipei'' and takes place in both New York City and Taipei, where the protagonist Paul's parents were born and live. In the novel, the character named Paul gets married and then visits Taipei with his new wife. They take MDMA and LSD and film a mock documentary on "Taiwan's first McDonald's."<ref>{{Cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2013/06/05/books/taipei-by-tao-lin.html |title=A Literary Mind, Under the Spell of Drugs and a MacBook |newspaper=The New York Times |date=4 June 2013 |last1=Garner |first1=Dwight |access-date=17 July 2020 |archive-date=29 September 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200929041755/https://www.nytimes.com/2013/06/05/books/taipei%2Dby%2Dtao%2Dlin.html |url-status=live }}</ref> The novel was made into a movie titled ''High Resolution'', starring Justin Chon and Ellie Bamber.<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.imdb.com/title/tt4286760/ |title=High Resolution (2018) - IMDb |website=[[Social:IMDb|IMDb]] |access-date=17 July 2020 |archive-date=27 January 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210127113139/https://www.imdb.com/title/tt4286760/ |url-status=live }}</ref>

==Gallery==
<gallery mode="packed">
File:Minquan_Bridge2017_TAIWAN.jpg|Taipei panoramic view
File:A03-28.jpg|Dadaocheng
File:EntranceChiangKaiShek.JPG|the main entrance of Chiang Kai-shek Memorial Hall
File:Taipei_101_2008_NewYear_Firework.jpg|New year fireworks at Taipei 101
File:Taiwan 2009 Taipei Presidential Palace FRD 7172.jpg|Presidential Office Building from Ketagalan Boulevard
File:西門紅樓01.jpg|Red House Theater
File:北投文物館(原佳山旅館).jpg|Beitou Museum
File:Grand Hotel Taipei View from Minsheng Community Center 20140930.jpg|Grand Hotel Taipei
File:DaZhiBridge2_byJaojao.JPG|Dazhi Bridge
File:dansui.jpg|Dadaocheng Wharf, Taipei
File:Taipei_Baoan_Temple.jpg|Bao-an Temple
File:指南宮凌霄寶殿.jpg|Zhinan Temple
File:101.typhoon.altonthompson.jpg|A typhoon makes landfall in Taipei City
File:ZhiShanGardenTaipei.jpg|Zhishan Garden at the National Palace Museum
File:Ximending Side Alley at Night.jpg|Ximending at night
File:Taipei_Story_House_20100718a.jpg|Taipei Story House (Yuanshan Mansion)
File:2010 07 21240 6773 Da'an District, Taipei, Daan Park, Washingtonia filifera, Taiwan.JPG|Daan Park
File:2010 07 20770 6691 Da'an District, Taipei, Daan Park, Taiwan.jpg|Daan Park
</gallery>
{{Geographic Location
|North  = [[File:Flag of New Taipei City.svg|25px|border|New Taipei city flag]] New Taipei City
|West   = [[File:Flag of New Taipei City.svg|25px|border|New Taipei city flag]] New Taipei City
|Centre = [[File:Flag of Taipei City.svg|25px|border|Taipei city flag]] Taipei City
|East   = [[File:Flag of New Taipei City.svg|25px|border|New Taipei city flag]] New Taipei City
|South  = [[File:Flag of New Taipei City.svg|25px|border|New Taipei city flag]] New Taipei City
}}

==See also==
*Taipei-Keelung Metropolitan Area
*List of districts of Taipei by area
*List of districts of Taipei by population
*List of districts of Taipei by population density
*List of schools in Taipei
*Taipei Community Services Center (offers support services to the international community)

== Notes ==
=== Words in native languages ===
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===Other===
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==References==
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==Further reading==
*{{cite journal |author=Li, Jie |author2=Xingjian Liu |author3=Jianzheng Liu |author4=Weifeng Li |title=City profile: Taipei |journal=Cities |volume=55 |date=June 2016 |pages=1–8 |doi=10.1016/j.cities.2016.03.007}}

==External links==
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20060515194626/http://www.tcc.gov.tw/eng/index.htm Taipei City Council]
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