Taipei
Taipei is the national capital of the Republic of China, otherwise known as Taiwan. Sitting in the northern part of the island in a basin between the Yangming Mountains and the Central Mountains, Taipei serves as the island's financial, cultural, and governmental center.Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 2.0.
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Popular Destinations
Taiwan Taoyuan International Airport
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Taoyuan International Airport, officially Taiwan Taoyuan International Airport is an international airport situated in Taoyuan City which serves the entire northern Taiwan region including the capital city Taipei.
East District
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Xinyi District or Sinyi District includes Taipei 101, Taipei International Convention Center, Taipei World Trade Center, Sun Yat-sen Memorial Hall and various shopping malls and entertainment venues.
Zhongshan
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Zhongshan and Songshan in Taipei are neighborhoods rich in arts and culture.
Destinations
Zhongzheng
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Zhongzheng District is a district in Taipei, Taiwan. Taipei Main Station is located in the district.
Yangmingshan National Park
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Yangmingshan National Park; Yáng Míng Shān Guójiā Gōngyuán) is a collection of peaks in Taiwan, located to the northeast of Taipei.
Shilin
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Shihlin is a northern district of Taipei, home to many museums and one of Taipei's largest night markets.
Old Taipei
If you want to feel the real heartbeat of Taipei, one that is far removed from the skyscrapers and shopping malls of East Taipei, then Datong and Wanhua in West Taipei are the places to go.Wenshan
Wenshan District is a district in Taipei, Taiwan. It is the southernmost district of the twelve districts in Taipei.Photo: jumping5566, CC BY 2.0.
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Notable Places in the Area
Chiang-kai-shek Memorial Hall
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The Chiang Kai-shek Memorial Hall is a national monument and tourist attraction erected in memory of Chiang Kai-shek, former President of Taiwan.
Lungshan Temple
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Bangka Lungshan Temple is a Chinese folk religious temple in Wanhua District, Taipei, Taiwan.
T’ai-pei Station
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Taipei Main Station is a major metro and railway station in the capital Taipei, Taiwan.
Localities in the Area
Yonghe
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Yonghe, also spelled Yungho, is a district of New Taipei.
Zhonghe
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Zhonghe or Jhonghe is a district in New Taipei. It is a wide district that spans between Banqiao on the west side and Yonghe on the north side.
Taipei
- Type: City with 2,700,000 residents
- Description: special municipality and capital city of Taiwan
- Neighbors: New Taipei
- Categories: capital city, special municipality, big city, million city, Capital of Republic of China (Taiwan), enclave and locality
- Location: Northern Taiwan, Taiwan, East Asia, Asia
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Latitude
25.0287° or 25° 1' 43" northLongitude
121.4956° or 121° 29' 44" eastPopulation
2,700,000Elevation
10 metres (33 feet)IATA airport code
TPEUnited Nations Location Code
TW TPEOpen Location Code
7QQ32FHW+F7OpenStreetMap ID
node 1147314253OpenStreetMap Feature
place=cityGeoNames ID
1668341Wikidata ID
Q1867Taipei Satellite Map
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Also Known As
- Achinese: Taipéi
- Afrikaans: Taipei
- Albanian: Taipei
- Amharic: ታይፔ
- Arabic: Taipei
- Arabic: تايبي
- Arabic: تايبيه
- Aragonese: Taipei
- Armenian: Թայբեյ
- Armenian: Թայբէյ
- Armenian: Թայպեյ
- Arpitan: Tayipèh
- Asturian: Taipéi
- Atayal: Taipei
- Atayal: Taypey
- Azerbaijani: Taybey
- Azerbaijani: Taypey
- Balinese: Taipéi
- Bashkir: Тайбэй
- Basque: Taipei
- Belarusian: Тайбэй
- Bengali: টাইপেই
- Bengali: তাইপে
- Bosnian: Taipei
- Breton: Taipei
- Bulgarian: Тайпе
- Bulgarian: Тайпей
- Burmese: ထိုင်ပေမြို့
- Catalan: Taipei
- Cebuano: Taipei (ulohang dakbayan)
- Cebuano: Taipei
- Central Bikol: Taipei
- Central Kurdish: تایپێ
- Chechen: Тайбэй
- Chinese: Pan-ch’iao-chen
- Chinese: Pan-ch’iao-chieh
- Chinese: Pan-ch’iao
- Chinese: Táiběi Shì
- Chinese: Tâi-pak-chhī
- Chinese: T’ai-pei-hsien
- Chinese: T’ai-pei
- Chinese: T’ai-pei Shih
- Chinese: 北市
- Chinese: 台北, 台灣
- Chinese: 台北
- Chinese: 台北市
- Chinese: 杜鵑花城
- Chinese: 臺北, 臺灣
- Chinese: 臺北
- Chinese: 臺北市
- Chuvash: Тайбэй
- Croatian: Taipei
- Czech: Tchaj-pej
- Dagbani: Taipei
- Danish: Taipei
- Dimli (individual language): Taipei
- Dutch: Taipei (stad)
- Dutch: Taipei
- Egyptian Arabic: تايبيه
- English: City of Taipei
- English: Taibei
- English: Taipei City
- English: The City of Azaleas
- Esperanto: Tajpeo
- Estonian: Taipei
- Faroese: Taipei
- Fiji Hindi: Taipei
- Fijian: Taipe
- Fijian: Taipeh
- Finnish: Taipei
- French: Taibei
- French: Taipei
- Galician: Taipei
- Gan Chinese: 臺北
- Gan Chinese: 臺北市
- Georgian: ტაიბეი
- German: Taipeh
- Greek: Ταϊπέι
- Guarani: Taipéi
- Gujarati: તાયપેઈ
- Haitian: Taypè
- Hakka Chinese: Thòi-pet-sṳ
- Hausa: Taipei
- Hausa: Thòi-pet-sṳ
- Hebrew: טאיפי
- Hebrew: טאיפיי
- Hindi: ताइपे
- Hungarian: Tajpej
- Icelandic: Taípei
- Ido: Taipei
- Iloko: Taipei
- Inari Sami: Taipei
- Indonesian: Kota Taipei
- Indonesian: Taipei
- Interlingua: Taipei
- Interlingue: Taipei
- Irish: Taipei
- Italian: Tai Pei
- Italian: Taipei
- Italian: Taipei City
- Jamaican Creole English: Taipei
- Japanese: たいほく
- Japanese: 北
- Japanese: 北市
- Japanese: 台北
- Japanese: 台北市
- Japanese: 臺北
- Japanese: 臺北市
- Javanese: Taipei
- Kalaallisut: Taipei
- Kannada: ತೈಪೆ
- Kazakh: Тайбэй
- Kazakh: Тайбэй қаласы
- Kazakh: Тайпэй қаласы
- Kinyarwanda: Tayipeyi
- Kirghiz: Тайбэй
- Korean: 타이베이
- Korean: 타이베이 시
- Korean: 타이베이시
- Korean: 타이뻬이
- Korean: 타이페이
- Korean: 태북
- Korean: 태북 시
- Korean: 태북시
- Ladin: Taipei
- Ladino: Taipei
- Lao: Taipei
- Latin: Taipeia
- Latin: Taipeium
- Latvian: Taibei
- Latvian: Taibeja
- Latvian: Taipeja
- Ligurian: Taipei
- Limburgan: Taipei
- Literary Chinese: 北市
- Literary Chinese: 台北
- Literary Chinese: 台北市
- Literary Chinese: 臺北
- Literary Chinese: 臺北市
- Lithuanian: Taibėjus
- Lithuanian: Taipėjus
- Lombard: Taipei
- Lule Sami: Taipei
- Luxembourgish: Taipeh
- Macedonian: Тајпеј
- Malagasy: Taipei
- Malay: Taipei
- Malayalam: തായ്പെയ്
- Maltese: Belt ta' Taipei
- Maltese: Taipei
- Maltese: Tajpej
- Marathi: ताइपेइ
- Marathi: तैपे
- Mazanderani: تایپه
- Min Dong Chinese: Dài-báe̤k
- Min Nan Chinese: Tâi-pak-chhī
- Min Nan Chinese: 臺北市
- Minangkabau: Taipei
- Mingrelian: ტაიბეი
- Moksha: Тайпэй
- Mongolian: Тайбэй
- Moroccan Arabic: طايپي
- Nepali: ताइपेइ
- Newari: ताइपेइ
- Northern Frisian: Taipeh
- Northern Sami: Taipei
- Norwegian: Taipei
- Norwegian Bokmål: Taipei
- Norwegian Nynorsk: Taipei
- Novial: Taipei
- Occitan (post 1500): Taipei
- Oriya: ତାଇପେ
- Ossetian: Тайбэй
- Paiwan: taihuku
- Pampanga: Taipei
- Panjabi: ਤਾਈਪਈ
- Panjabi: ਤਾਈਪੇ
- Papiamento: Taipei
- Persian: تایپه
- Piemontese: Taipei
- Pite Sami: Taipei
- Polish: Tajpej
- Portuguese: Cidade das Azáleas
- Portuguese: Cidade de Taipei
- Portuguese: Cidade de Taipé
- Portuguese: Taibei
- Portuguese: Taipei
- Portuguese: Taipé
- Pushto: تایپي
- Quechua: T'aypik
- Romanian: Taipei
- Russia Buriat: Тайбэй
- Russian: Тайбэй
- Sakizaya: Taypak
- Sanskrit: तैपेइ
- Santali: ᱛᱟᱭᱯᱮ
- Sardinian: Taipei
- Scots: Taipei
- Scottish Gaelic: Taipei
- Serbian: Тајпеј
- Serbo-Croatian: Taipei
- Shona: Taipei
- Sicilian: Taipei
- Silesian: Tajpej
- Sinhala: තායිපේ
- Skolt Sami: Taipei
- Slovak: Tchaj-pej
- Slovenian: Tajpej
- Somali: Taipei
- South Azerbaijani: تایپه
- Southern Sami: Taipei
- Spanish: Taipei
- Spanish: Taipéi
- Swahili: Taipei
- Swedish: Taipei
- Swiss German: Taipeh
- Tagalog: Taipei
- Tajik: Тайбэй
- Tajik: Тайпей
- Tamil: டைபே
- Tamil: டைப்பாய்
- Tamil: தாய்பெய்
- Tatar: Taybey
- Tatar: Тәйбей
- Telugu: తాయిపెయ్
- Thai: ไทเป
- Tibetan: ཐའེ་པེ
- Tok Pisin: Taipei
- Tornedalen Finnish: Taipei
- Tosk Albanian: Taipeh
- Turkish: Taipei
- Turkmen: Taýpeý
- Udmurt: Тайпей
- Uighur: تەيبېي
- Uighur: تەيبېي شەھىرى
- Ukrainian: Тайбей
- Ume Sami: Taipei
- Urdu: تائپے
- Urdu: تائی پے
- Uzbek: Taypey
- Venetian: Taipei
- Veps: Taibei
- Vietnamese: Đài Bắc
- Volapük: Táiběi
- Waray (Philippines): Taipei
- Welsh: Taipei
- Western Armenian: Թայբէյ
- Western Frisian: Taipei
- Western Panjabi: تائیپے
- Western Panjabi: ٹاۓپی
- Wu Chinese: 台北
- Wu Chinese: 台北市
- Wu Chinese: 臺北
- Wu Chinese: 臺北市
- Yakut: Тайпэй
- Yiddish: טאאיפי
- Yoruba: Taipei
- Yue Chinese: 臺北
- Yue Chinese: 臺北市
- Zeeuws: Taipei
- Zhuang: Daizbaek
- Pan Kiao
- Taibei Shi
- Taibei Shih
Popular Destinations in Northern Taiwan
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