Tainan

Tainan, in , is the oldest city in . Tainan is famous for its temples, historic buildings and snack food, and is well worth a visit 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: “Cidade de Tainan”, “Ciudad de Tainan”, “Fucheng”, “Hú-siâⁿ”, “Hú-siânn”, “Lâm-êng”, “Lâm-îng”, “Nanying”, “T’ai-nan”, “T’ainan”, “T´ai-nan”, “Tâi-lâm”, “Tâi-lâm Chhī”, “Tai-Onan”, “Tai-wan”, “Táinán”, “Tainan (stad)”, “Tainan City”, “Tainan, Taiwan”, “Thainan”, “Thaiwan”, “Thành phố Đài Nam”, “Thòi-nàm”, “TW-TNN”, “تەينەن شەھىرى”, “तैनान”, “તાઈનાન”, “ටයිනාන්”, “นครไถหนาน”, “대남”, “대남시”, “부성”, “南”, “南市”, “南瀛”, “南都”, “府城”, and “鳳凰城”
  • Neighbors: and

Places of Interest

Highlights: Chihkan Tower and National Museum of Taiwan Literature.

Park
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Fort Provintia or Providentia, also known as , was a Dutch outpost on Formosa at a site now located in , Tainan, .

Museum
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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 .

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The Duiyue Gate or Laoshi City Gate and Laogu Stone Urn City Wall is a historical gate in , Tainan, .

Places in the Area

Nearby places include N. District and Zhongxi District.

Suburb
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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
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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
UN/LOCODE
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: “Tainan”
  • Belarusian: “Тайнань”
  • Bengali: “তাইনান”
  • Bulgarian: “Тайнан”
  • Catalan: “Tainan”
  • Cebuano: “Tainan”
  • Chinese: “Táinán Shì”
  • Chinese: “台南市”
  • Chinese: “臺南”
  • Chinese: “臺南市”
  • Croatian: “Tainan”
  • Czech: “Tchaj-nan”
  • Danish: “Tainan”
  • Dutch: “Tainan”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “تاينان”
  • Esperanto: “Tajnan”
  • Esperanto: “Tajnano”
  • Finnish: “Tainan”
  • French: “Tainan”
  • Galician: “Tainan”
  • Gan Chinese: “台南市”
  • Gan Chinese: “臺南市”
  • German: “Tainan”
  • Greek: “Ταϊνάν”
  • Gujarati: “તૈનન”
  • Hakka Chinese: “Thòi-nàm-sṳ”
  • Hausa: “Tainan”
  • Hebrew: “טאינאן”
  • Hindi: “ताइनान”
  • Hungarian: “Tajnan”
  • Icelandic: “Taínan”
  • Indonesian: “Kota Tainan”
  • Indonesian: “Tainan”
  • Irish: “Tainan”
  • Italian: “Tainan”
  • Japanese: “台南”
  • Japanese: “台南市”
  • Kannada: “ತೈನೆನ್”
  • Kashmiri: “تاینان”
  • Korean: “타이난 시”
  • Korean: “타이난시”
  • Ladin: “Tainan”
  • Latin: “Tainan”
  • Latvian: “Tainana”
  • Latvian: “Tainaņa”
  • 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: “Tâi-lâm-chhī”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Tâi-lâm-tshī”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “臺南市”
  • Mingrelian: “ტაინანი”
  • Mongolian: “Тайнань”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Tainan”
  • Norwegian: “Tainan”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Tainan”
  • Persian: “تاینان”
  • Polish: “Tainan”
  • Portuguese: “Tainan”
  • Quechua: “T’aynam”
  • Quechua: “Taynam”
  • Romanian: “Tainan”
  • Russian: “Тайнань”
  • Sakizaya: “Tay-nan”
  • Scots: “Tainan”
  • Serbian: “Тајнан”
  • Silesian: “Tainan”
  • Sinhala: “ටයිනන්”
  • Slovak: “Tainan”
  • Slovak: “Tchaj-nan”
  • Slovenian: “Tajnan”
  • Spanish: “Tainan”
  • Swedish: “Tainan”
  • Tamil: “டைனான்”
  • Telugu: “టాయినాన్”
  • Thai: “ไถหนัน”
  • Thai: “ไถหนาน”
  • Turkish: “Tainan”
  • Uighur: “Teynen shehiri”
  • Ukrainian: “Тайнань”
  • Urdu: “تاینان”
  • Venetian: “Tainan”
  • Vietnamese: “Đài Nam”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Tainan”
  • Wu Chinese: “台南市”
  • Yue Chinese: “臺南”
  • Zhuang: “Daiznanz”
  • “臺南市”

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