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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.
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.
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 ...
County/City English name Native name Type Population [a] Area (km 2) Population density (/km 2) Population 2010 [b] Population change [c] 65000010 New Taipei City: Banqiao District: 板橋區: District: 557,120: 23.14 24,076.06 554,596 +2,524 65000020 New Taipei City Sanchong District: 三重區: District: 386,236: 16.32 23,666.42 389,968 − ...
The 2007 amendment of Local Government Act states that a county or city with population over two million may grant some extra privileges in local autonomy that was designed for special municipalities. This type of counties are often called quasi-municipalities (準直轄市). Taipei County was the first division
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 ...
Tainan County (1945–2010), now part of Tainan special municipality; the county seat was located at Xinying City; Taipei County (1945–2010), now New Taipei special municipality; the county seat was located at Banqiao City; Taoyuan County (1950–2014), now Taoyuan special municipality; the county seat was located at Taoyuan City (county ...
The following is a list of administrative divisions of the Republic of China (Taiwan), including 6 special municipalities and 2 nominal provinces [a] as the de jure first-level administrative divisions. 11 counties and 3 cities were nominally under the jurisdiction of the Taiwan Province, and 2 additional counties being part of the ROC's Fujian Province.