Taiwan
Southern Taiwan
Taiwan Province

Tainan

Tainan, in , is the oldest city in . Tainan is famous for its temples, historic buildings and snack food. It may be even more under-appreciated compared to the current capital, but is well worth a stop on a round-island trip for a quintessentially Taiwanese experience for both stomach and soul.
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  • Type: City with 1,890,000 residents
  • Description: city in southern Taiwan
  • Also known as: “Fucheng”, “Hú-siânn”, “Nanying”, “T’ai-nan”, “Tâi-lâm”, “Tai-wan”, “Tainan City”, “Tainan, Taiwan”, “Thaiwan”, and “Thòi-nàm”
  • Neighbors: and

Places of Interest

Highlights include Chihkan Tower and National Museum of Taiwan Literature.

Park
Photo: Koika, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Fort Provintia or Providentia, also known as , was a Dutch outpost on Formosa at a site now located in , Tainan, .

Museum
Photo: 阿文, CC BY 3.0.
The is a museum located in Tainan, Taiwan. Operated by Taiwan's Ministry of Culture, the museum researches, catalogs, preserves, and exhibits literary artifacts, and is also the first national literature museum in .

Government office
The is the elected municipal council of Tainan City, Republic of China that the council is composed of 57 councilors elected from Single non-transferable vote for four-year terms to oversees the Tainan City Government.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include N. District and Zhongxi District.

Suburb
Photo: 338km, CC BY 3.0.
North District is a district home to 126,446 people located in Tainan, .

Suburb
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West Central District is a district located in the center of Tainan City, . It is home to 76,983 people.

Suburb
Photo: Cmglee, CC BY-SA 3.0.
is a district of Tainan, . In March 2012, it was named one of the Top 10 Small Tourist Towns by the Tourism Bureau of Taiwan. It is home to 64,408 people according to the 2020 census.

Tainan

Latitude
22.9912° or 22° 59′ 28″ north
Longitude
120.185° or 120° 11′ 6″ east
Population
1,890,000
Elevation
26 metres (85 feet)
IATA airport code
TNN
United Nations Location Code
TW TNN
Open location code
7QJ2X5RM+FX
Open­Street­Map ID
node 3014041771
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
1668355
Wiki­data ID
Q140631
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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Zhuang—“Tainan” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “Tainan”
  • Arabic: “تاينان”
  • Armenian: “Թայնան”
  • Asturian: “Tainan”
  • Balinese: “Kota Tainan”
  • Basque: “T´ai-nan”
  • Basque: “Tainan”
  • Belarusian: “Тайнань”
  • Bengali: “তাইনান”
  • Bulgarian: “Тайнан”
  • Catalan: “Tainan”
  • Cebuano: “Tainan”
  • Chinese: “Tâi-lâm-chhī”
  • Chinese: “Táinán Shì”
  • Chinese: “Táinán”
  • Chinese: “南瀛”
  • Chinese: “台南”
  • Chinese: “台南市”
  • Chinese: “府城”
  • Chinese: “臺南”
  • Chinese: “臺南市”
  • Croatian: “Tainan”
  • Czech: “Tchaj-nan”
  • Danish: “Tainan City”
  • Danish: “Tainan”
  • Dutch: “Tainan (stad)”
  • Dutch: “Tainan”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “تاينان”
  • Esperanto: “Tajnan”
  • Esperanto: “Tajnano”
  • Finnish: “Tainan”
  • French: “Tai-Onan”
  • French: “Tainan City”
  • French: “Tainan”
  • French: “Thainan”
  • Galician: “Tainan”
  • Gan Chinese: “台南市”
  • Gan Chinese: “臺南市”
  • German: “Tainan”
  • German: “TW-TNN”
  • Greek: “Ταϊνάν”
  • Gujarati: “તાઈનાન”
  • Gujarati: “તૈનન”
  • Hakka Chinese: “Thòi-nàm-sṳ”
  • Hakka Chinese: “Thòi-nàm”
  • Hausa: “Tainan”
  • Hebrew: “טאינאן”
  • Hindi: “ताइनान”
  • Hindi: “तैनान”
  • Hungarian: “Tajnan”
  • Icelandic: “Taínan”
  • Indonesian: “Kota Tainan”
  • Indonesian: “Tainan”
  • Irish: “Tainan”
  • Italian: “Tainan”
  • Japanese: “南瀛”
  • Japanese: “南都”
  • Japanese: “台南”
  • Japanese: “台南市”
  • Japanese: “府城”
  • Japanese: “臺南市”
  • Japanese: “鳳凰城”
  • Kannada: “ತೈನೆನ್”
  • Kashmiri: “تاینان”
  • Korean: “대남”
  • Korean: “대남시”
  • Korean: “타이난 시”
  • Korean: “타이난시”
  • Ladin: “Tainan”
  • Latin: “Tainan”
  • Latvian: “Tainana”
  • Latvian: “Tainaņa”
  • Literary Chinese: “台南市”
  • Literary Chinese: “臺南市”
  • Lithuanian: “Tainanas”
  • Luxembourgish: “Tainan”
  • Macedonian: “Тајнан”
  • Malay: “Tainan”
  • Maltese: “Tainan”
  • Marathi: “ताईनान”
  • Min Dong Chinese: “Dài-nàng”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Hú-siâⁿ”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Hú-siânn”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Lâm-êng”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Lâm-îng”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Tâi-lâm Chhī”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Tâi-lâm-chhī”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Tâi-lâm-tshī”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “台南”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “台南市”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “府城”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “臺南”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “臺南市”
  • Mingrelian: “ტაინანი”
  • Mongolian: “Тайнань”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Tainan”
  • Norwegian: “Tainan”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Tainan”
  • Persian: “تاینان”
  • Polish: “Tainan”
  • Polish: “Tajnan”
  • Portuguese: “Cidade de Tainan”
  • Portuguese: “Tai-wan”
  • Portuguese: “Tainan”
  • Quechua: “T’aynam”
  • Quechua: “Taynam”
  • Romanian: “Tainan”
  • Russian: “Тайнань”
  • Sakizaya: “Tay-nan”
  • Scots: “Tainan”
  • Serbian: “Тајнан”
  • Silesian: “Tainan”
  • Sinhala: “ටයිනන්”
  • Sinhala: “ටයිනාන්”
  • Slovak: “Tainan”
  • Slovak: “Tchaj-nan”
  • Slovenian: “Tajnan”
  • Spanish: “Ciudad de Tainan”
  • Spanish: “T’ainan”
  • Spanish: “Tainan City”
  • Spanish: “Tainan”
  • Swedish: “Tainan”
  • Tamil: “டைனான்”
  • Telugu: “టాయినాన్”
  • Thai: “ไถหนัน”
  • Thai: “ไถหนาน”
  • Thai: “นครไถหนาน”
  • Turkish: “Tainan”
  • Uighur: “Teynen shehiri”
  • Uighur: “تەينەن شەھىرى”
  • Ukrainian: “Тайнань”
  • Urdu: “تاینان”
  • Venetian: “Tainan”
  • Vietnamese: “Đài Nam”
  • Vietnamese: “Thành phố Đài Nam”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Tainan City”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Tainan”
  • Wu Chinese: “台南市”
  • Wu Chinese: “臺南市”
  • Yue Chinese: “南”
  • Yue Chinese: “南市”
  • Yue Chinese: “南瀛”
  • Yue Chinese: “南都”
  • Yue Chinese: “台南”
  • Yue Chinese: “台南市”
  • Yue Chinese: “府城”
  • Yue Chinese: “臺南”
  • Yue Chinese: “臺南市”
  • Yue Chinese: “鳳凰城”
  • Zhuang: “Daiznanz”
  • “臺南市”

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