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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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Essential Destinations

Top destinations include Taiwan Taoyuan International Airport and Zhongshan.

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is the main international airport serving , particularly the northern region and Taipei. Located in , , approximately 40 km west of Taipei, the airport is the busiest and largest in Taiwan.

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and Songshan in Taipei are neighborhoods rich in arts and culture.

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Xinyi District or Sinyi District is considered the financial district of Taipei, . The district is also one of the shopping areas in Taipei, anchored by a number of department stores and malls.

Destinations to Discover

Explore places such as Zhongzheng and Yangmingshan National Park.

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District is a district in Taipei, . is located in the district. It is home to most of the national government buildings of .

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Yangmingshan National Park; Yáng Míng Shān Guójiā Gōngyuán) is a collection of peaks in , located to the northeast of Taipei.

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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.

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Shihlin is a northern district of Taipei, home to many museums and one of Taipei's largest night markets.

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District is the northernmost of the twelve districts of Taipei City, Taiwan. The historical spelling of the district is Peitou. The name originates from the Ketagalan word Kipatauw, meaning witch.

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District is a district of Taipei City, . means "inner lake." The older name originates from the Ketagalan word Tayour, meaning woman's head ornament.

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District is a district in Taipei, . It is the southernmost district of the twelve districts in Taipei. previously referred to the region south of the Taipei Basin.
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Places of Interest

Highlights include Chiang-kai-shek Memorial Hall and National Taiwan Museum.

Museum
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The is a national monument and tourist attraction erected in memory of Chiang Kai-shek, former President of the Republic of China.

Museum
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The , established in 1908, is the oldest museum in . It was founded by the colonial government during Taiwan's period of Japanese rule. The museum is located in , Taipei.

Railway station
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Taipei Main Station is a major metro and railway station in the capital Taipei, . It is served by Taipei Metro, the Taiwan High Speed Rail, and Taiwan Railway.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Yonghe and Zhonghe.

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, also spelled Yungho, is a district of . It is famous for its breakfast foods, notably soy milk. The museum of religion is the city's primary draw for tourists.

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or Jhonghe is a district in . It is a wide district that spans between on the west side and on the north side.

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District is a district in the western part of , . With an area of 16.32 km.

Taipei

Latitude
25.0287° or 25° 1′ 43″ north
Longitude
121.4956° or 121° 29′ 44″ east
Population
2,700,000
Elevation
5 metres (16 feet)
IATA airport code
TPE
United Nations Location Code
TW TPE
Open location code
7QQ32FHW+F7
Open­Street­Map ID
node 1147314253
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
1668341
Wiki­data ID
Q1867
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In Other Languages

From Achinese to Zulu—“Taipei” goes by many names.
  • Achinese: “Taipei”
  • Achinese: “Taipéi”
  • Afrikaans: “Taipei”
  • Albanian: “Taipei”
  • Amharic: “ታይፔ”
  • Arabic: “تايبي”
  • Arabic: “تايبيه”
  • Aragonese: “Taipei”
  • Armenian: “Թայբեյ”
  • Armenian: “Թայպեյ”
  • Arpitan: “Tayipèh”
  • Asturian: “Taipéi”
  • Atayal: “Taipei”
  • Atayal: “Taypey”
  • 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: “Tâi-pak-chhī”
  • Chinese: “北”
  • Chinese: “北市”
  • 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”
  • Dinka: “Taipei”
  • Dutch: “Taipei (stad)”
  • Dutch: “Taipei”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “تايبيه”
  • Esperanto: “Tajpeo”
  • Estonian: “Taipei”
  • Faroese: “Taipei”
  • Fiji Hindi: “Taipei”
  • Fijian: “Taipe”
  • Fijian: “Taipeh”
  • Finnish: “Taipei”
  • French: “Taibei”
  • French: “Taipei”
  • French: “Tanshoui”
  • French: “Tanshouï”
  • 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”
  • Hebrew: “טאיפי”
  • Hebrew: “טאיפיי”
  • Hindi: “ताइपे”
  • Hungarian: “Tajpej”
  • Iban: “Taipei”
  • 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 City”
  • Italian: “Taipei”
  • Jamaican Creole English: “Taipei”
  • Japanese: “たいぺい”
  • Japanese: “タイペイ”
  • 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: “Taibei”
  • Kazakh: “Taibiei qalasy”
  • Kazakh: “Taibiei”
  • Kazakh: “Taipiei qalasy”
  • Kazakh: “Taipiei”
  • Kazakh: “Тайбэй қаласы”
  • Kazakh: “Тайбэй”
  • Kazakh: “Тайпэй қаласы”
  • Khmer: “តៃប៉ិ”
  • Kinyarwanda: “Tayipeyi”
  • Kirghiz: “Тайбэй”
  • Korean: “타이베이 시”
  • Korean: “타이베이”
  • Korean: “타이베이시”
  • Korean: “타이뻬이”
  • Korean: “타이페이”
  • Korean: “태북 시”
  • Korean: “태북”
  • Korean: “태북시”
  • Ladin: “Taipei”
  • Ladino: “Taipei”
  • Lao: “ໄທເປ”
  • 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”
  • Mirandese: “Taipé”
  • Moksha: “Тайпэй”
  • Mongolian: “Тайбэй”
  • Moroccan Arabic: “طايپي”
  • Nepali: “ताइपेइ”
  • Newari: “ताइपेइ”
  • Northern Frisian: “Taipeh”
  • Northern Sami: “Taipei”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Taipei”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Taipei”
  • Norwegian: “Taipei”
  • Novial: “Taipei”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Taipei”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Taipèi”
  • Oriya: “ତାଇପେ”
  • Ossetian: “Тайбэй”
  • Paiwan: “Tai Pei”
  • Paiwan: “taihuku”
  • Paiwan: “Taipei”
  • Paiwan: “Tanshoui”
  • Pampanga: “Taipei”
  • Panjabi: “ਤਾਈਪਈ”
  • Panjabi: “ਤਾਈਪੇ”
  • Papiamento: “Taipei”
  • Persian: “تایپه”
  • Piemontese: “Taipei”
  • Pite Sami: “Taipei”
  • Polish: “Tajpej”
  • Portuguese: “Cidade das Azáleas”
  • Portuguese: “Cidade de Taipé”
  • Portuguese: “Cidade de Taipei”
  • Portuguese: “Taibei”
  • Portuguese: “Taipé”
  • Portuguese: “Taipei”
  • Pushto: “تایپي”
  • Quechua: “T’aypik”
  • Quechua: “Thaypiy”
  • Romanian: “orașul Taipei”
  • Romanian: “Taipei”
  • Russia Buriat: “Тайбэй”
  • Russian: “Тайбэй”
  • Rusyn: “Тайбей”
  • Sakizaya: “Taypak”
  • Sanskrit: “तैपेइ”
  • Santali: “ᱛᱟᱭᱯᱮ”
  • Sardinian: “Taipei”
  • Scots: “Taipei”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “Taipei”
  • Serbian: “Тајпеј”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Taipei”
  • Shona: “Taipei”
  • Sicilian: “Taipei”
  • Silesian: “Tajpej”
  • Sindhi: “تائيپي”
  • 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”
  • Talysh: “Tajbej”
  • Talysh: “Taybey”
  • Tamil: “டைபே”
  • Tamil: “டைப்பாய்”
  • Tamil: “தாய்பெய்”
  • Tatar: “Taybey”
  • Tatar: “Тайпей”
  • Telugu: “తాయిపెయ్”
  • Thai: “ไทเป”
  • Tibetan: “ཐའེ་པེ”
  • Tok Pisin: “Taipei”
  • Tornedalen Finnish: “Taipei”
  • Tosk Albanian: “Taipeh”
  • Turkish: “Taipei”
  • Turkmen: “Taýpeý”
  • Udmurt: “Тайпей”
  • Uighur: “تەيبېي شەھىرى”
  • Uighur: “تەيبېي”
  • 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 Armenian: “Թայփէյ”
  • 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”
  • Yiddish: “טאיפעי”
  • Yoruba: “Taipei”
  • Yue Chinese: “臺北”
  • Yue Chinese: “臺北市”
  • Zeeuws: “Taipei”
  • Zhuang: “Daizbaek”
  • Zulu: “i-Taipei”

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