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Platform of the Taipei City Hall Station on the Taipei Metro system. The Taipei–Keelung metropolitan area is served by routes of the Taiwan Railway (Western Trunk line, Yilan line, Pingxi line, Shen'ao line) which connects it with the majority of the inhabitated places on the island and the Taiwan High Speed Rail which connects the island’s ...
Metropolitan areas were recognized by the government of the Republic of China (Taiwan) until 2010. This was the definition of metropolitan areas used by the ROC central government. A metropolitan area is an economically and socially integrated area with one or more core cities. The population has to be over 300,000.
Taipei Metro [I] (also known as Taipei Mass Rapid Transit (MRT) [3] and branded as Metro Taipei) [4] is a rapid transit system operated by the Taipei Rapid Transit Corporation serving the capital Taipei and New Taipei City in Taiwan. It was the first rapid transit system to be built on the island. [5]
While Taipei City is home to 2,524,393 people (2022), the greater metropolitan area has a population of 7,047,559 people. [10] Even though the population of the city has been decreasing in recent years, the population of adjacent New Taipei has been increasing. The population loss, while rapid in its early years, was slowed by lower density ...
Population of urban areas: Taipei 8,605,000 Taichung 2,595,000 Kaohsiung 2,555,000 Tainan 1,195,000 Hsinchu 550,000 2018: 43 198 205 439 976 1064 [53] Land Area of urban areas Taipei 1,140 (km 2) Taichung 492 (km 2) Kaohsiung 363 (km 2) Tainan 259 (km 2) Hsinchu 117(km 2) 108 265 333 429 800 Urban Population Density Taipei 7,600 (per km 2)
Taipei [Taibei] (臺北) Taitung [Taidong] ... List of metropolitan areas by population; Historical. History of the administrative divisions of China (1912–1949)
Fertility rates have continued to decline. In 2010, Taiwan had a population growth of less than 0.2% and a fertility rate of only 0.9, the lowest rate ever recorded in that country. The population of Taiwan peaked at 23.6 million in 2019 and has been continuously decreasing ever since, raising fears of an aging population.
The largest metropolitan area is formed by Taipei (the capital), New Taipei City, and Keelung. With around 23.9 million inhabitants, Taiwan is among the most densely populated countries. Taiwan has been settled for at least 25,000 years. Ancestors of Taiwanese indigenous peoples settled the island around 6,000 years ago.