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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.
On 27 June 1994, the Taipei Rapid Transit Corporation (TRTC) was formed to oversee the operation of the Taipei Metro system. The Executive Yuan approved the initial network plan for the system on 27 May 1986. [ 6 ]
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 ...
The population of Taiwan is approximately 23.35 million as of April 2023. [1]Immigration of Han Chinese to the Penghu Islands started as early as the 13th century. The main island was inhabited by a diversity of Taiwanese indigenous peoples speaking Austronesian languages until Han settlement began in the early 17th century, around the time of the Ming–Qing transition, when workers were ...
Taipei Metro opened in 1996 and runs on an extensive network of both Multiple Unit for the high-capacity system as well as VAL for the medium-capacity system throughout the metropolitan area of Taipei. The metro system operates 6 lines consisting of 131 stations. [3] Kaohsiung Metro is a metro system that currently has two lines, the Red line ...
Recent report suggested that Taoyuan city is part of Taipei metropolitan area. [4] Taoyuan City witnessed the fastest population growth of Taiwan in the past few decades, [5] and since 2014 it has been promoted to a special municipality from county status. It has become the fourth largest metropolitan area in Taiwan.
Metro lines Metro stations Metro length Light rail lines Light rail stations Light rail length Taipei Metro: Taipei, New Taipei: 789.599 million (2019) 5 117 [a] 131.1 km (81 mi) — — — Kaohsiung Metro: Kaohsiung: 127.855 million (2018) 2 37 53.3 km (33 mi) 1 38 22.1 km (14 mi) Taoyuan Metro: Taoyuan, Taipei, New Taipei: 27.962 million ...