Taipei

Taipei is the capital of Taiwan and a major global city. Located in the north of the island, nestled in a basin between the Yangming and Central Mountains, Taipei serves as the financial, cultural, and political heart of Taiwan.
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  • …has 2,490,000 residents
  • …lies at an elevation of 420 metres (1,378 feet)
  • Also known as
    “Chinese Taipei”
    “Taipei County”
    “Taipei, China”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Wanggu and Lingjiao railway station.
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railway station is a railway station located in , New Taipei, . is situated 6 km north of Taipei.
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is a railway station located in , New Taipei, . is situated 6 km northwest of Taipei.
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railway station is located in , New Taipei, . is situated 6 km north of Taipei.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Pingxi and Pinglin.
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District, is a rural district in New Taipei, .
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is a district of .
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District is a rural district in the eastern part of , .

Taipei

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Latitude
24.9847° or 24° 59′ 5″ north
Longitude
121.7843° or 121° 47′ 4″ east
Open location code
7QP3XQMM+VP
Geo­Names ID
7280290

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In Other Languages

From Amharic to Yakut—“Taipei” goes by many names.
  • Amharic: “ታይፔ”
  • Arabic: “تايبيه”
  • Armenian: “Թայբեյ”
  • Arpitan: “Tayipèh”
  • Azerbaijani: “Taipei”
  • Belarusian: “Горад Тайбэй”
  • Bengali: “টাইপেই”
  • Bengali: “তাইপে”
  • Bulgarian: “Тайпей”
  • Burmese: “ထိုင်ပေမြို့”
  • Central Kurdish: “تایپێ”
  • Chinese: “中国台北”
  • Chinese: “中國臺北”
  • Chinese: “臺北市”
  • Czech: “Tchaj-pej”
  • Esperanto: “Tajpeo”
  • French: “Taipei”
  • Georgian: “ტაიბეი”
  • German: “Taipeh”
  • Greek: “Ταϊπέι”
  • Haitian: “Taypè”
  • Hakka Chinese: “Thòi-pet-sṳ”
  • Hausa: “Taipei”
  • Hebrew: “טאיפיי”
  • Hindi: “ताइपे”
  • Hungarian: “Tajpej”
  • Icelandic: “Taípei”
  • Indonesian: “Kota Taipei”
  • Japanese: “台北市”
  • Javanese: “Taipei”
  • Kazakh: “Тайбэй”
  • Kinyarwanda: “Tayipeyi”
  • Kirghiz: “Тайбэй”
  • Korean: “타이베이 시”
  • Latin: “Taipeium”
  • Latvian: “Taibei”
  • Lithuanian: “Taipėjus”
  • Luxembourgish: “Taipeh”
  • Macedonian: “Тајпеј”
  • Malay: “Taipei”
  • Malayalam: “തായ്‌പെയ്”
  • Marathi: “ताइपेइ”
  • Min Dong Chinese: “Dài-báe̤k”
  • Mongolian: “Тайбэй”
  • Oromo: “Taipei”
  • Ossetian: “Тайбэй”
  • Panjabi: “ਤਾਈਪਈ”
  • Persian: “تایپه”
  • Polish: “Tajpej”
  • Portuguese: “Taipé”
  • Pushto: “تايپې”
  • Russian: “Тайбэй”
  • Serbian: “Тајпеј”
  • Slovak: “Tchaj-pej”
  • Slovenian: “Tajpej”
  • Somali: “Taipei”
  • Spanish: “Taipéi”
  • Swahili: “Taipei”
  • Tajik: “Тайбэй”
  • Tamil: “தாய்பெய்”
  • Tatar: “Тайбэй”
  • Thai: “ไทเป”
  • Tibetan: “ཐའེ་པེ”
  • Uighur: “تەيبېي شەھىرى”
  • Ukrainian: “Тайбей”
  • Urdu: “تائی پے”
  • Uzbek: “Taipei”
  • Vietnamese: “Đài Bắc”
  • Western Panjabi: “ٹاۓپی”
  • Yakut: “Тайпэй”

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