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By the end of 2009, one in ten people in Taipei was over 65 years of age. [59] Residents who had obtained a college education or higher accounted for 43.48% of the population, and the literacy rate stood at 99.18%. [57] Like the rest of Taiwan, Taipei is composed of four major ethnic subgroups: Hoklos, Waishengren, Hakkas, and aborigines. [57]
According to the World Health Organization (WHO), since 1993, Taiwan has reached the threshold of an aging society. It was estimated the percentage of people over 65 was 8%. [24] The CEPD estimated that the percentage of people 65 years or older will be over 20% in 2025, which means Taiwan will soon become a "super aged society". [25]
The Taipei–Keelung metropolitan area (Chinese: 臺北基隆都會區; pinyin: Táiběi-Jīlóng Dūhùiqū) also commonly known as Greater Taipei Area (Chinese: 大臺北地區; pinyin: Dà Táiběi Dìqū) is the largest metropolitan area in Taiwan. It is composed of 3 administrative divisions: Taipei, New Taipei City and Keelung.
Taipei: 1962-04-01: 2010-12-25: Became a district in special municipality of New Taipei: Banqiao: 板橋市: Pang-kiô-chhī: Taipei: 1972-07-01: 2010-12-25: Became a district in special municipality of New Taipei: Yonghe: 永和市: Éng-hô-chhī: Taipei: 1979-01-01: 2010-12-25: Became a district in special municipality of New Taipei: Zhonghe ...
More than 200,000 people live on this 6 km 2 (2.3 sq mi) island. Paris , France Bnei Brak , Israel Taipei , Taiwan Note: links for each country go to the relevant list of cities, when available.
Taiwan, [II] [i] officially the Republic of China (ROC), [I] [j] is a country [27] in East Asia. [m] The main island of Taiwan, also known as Formosa, lies between the East and South China Seas in the northwestern Pacific Ocean, with the People's Republic of China (PRC) to the northwest, Japan to the northeast, and the Philippines to the south.
A delegation of Chinese officials led by a deputy Shanghai mayor arrived in Taipei on Monday for an annual city-to-city forum, a rare visit happening at a time of heightened Taiwan-China military ...
New Taipei City was known as Taipei County before its promotion to special municipality status in 2010. The name of the new municipality (新北市, literally "New Northern City") was at first rendered in English as Xinbei City via pinyin romanization, [6] [7] but both candidates for the city's first mayoral election opposed the name.