Taipei
Special municipality and capital city of Taiwan
Also known as The City of Azaleas · Taipei City · Taibei · City of Taipei · Tanshoui · Tai Pei
- Country
- Taiwan(since 1945)
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Sources- 1.Stated in archINFORMRetrieved 2018-08-06
- 2.Stated in Geographic Names Server
- Taiwan(since 1945)
- Located in
- Taiwan(since 1945)
- Population
- 2,429,429(April 2026)
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- , 2,442,991(September 2025)
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Sources- 1.ris.gov.tw/info-popudata/app/awFastDownload/viewRetrieved 2025-11-09
- , 2,504,731(July 2024)
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- +57 more
- 2,429,429(April 2026)
- Area
- 271.7997 km²
- Elevation
- 10 m
- Head of government
- Chiang Wan-an(since 2022)
- , Ko Wen-je(2014–2022)
- , Hau Lung-pin(2006–2014)
- +3 more
- Founded
- July 1, 1967
- Postal code
- 100
Overview
Over time
Dated values recorded in Wikidata, each with its own source
All data
458 statements · 63% with external sources · numbers in brackets are citations
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- Basseterre
- Capital of
- Taiwan(since 1949)
- Taiwan Island
- Taiwan(1945–1967)
- Native label
- 台北市
- Tâi-pak-tshī script: Taiwanese Taigi Romanization System
- 臺北市
- Official name
- 臺北市
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- Тайбэй(since 1945)
- Тайхоку(1895–1945)
- Тайбэй(until 1895)
- 臺北市
- Tabular population
- Data:Taipei Population.tab
- Geoshape
- Data:Taiwan/Taipei City.map
- Number of households
- 1,082,550(April 2026)
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- 1,081,315(September 2025)
1
Sources- 1.ris.gov.tw/info-popudata/app/awFastDownload/viewRetrieved 2025-11-09
- 1,067,895(July 2024)
1
- 1,067,481(June 2024)
1
- 1,082,550(April 2026)
- Male population
- 1,143,395(April 2026)
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- 1,150,846(September 2025)
1
Sources- 1.ris.gov.tw/info-popudata/app/awFastDownload/viewRetrieved 2025-11-09
- 1,181,917(July 2024)
1
- 1,183,068(June 2024)
1
- 1,143,395(April 2026)
- Female population
- 1,286,034(April 2026)
1
- 1,292,145(September 2025)
1
Sources- 1.ris.gov.tw/info-popudata/app/awFastDownload/viewRetrieved 2025-11-09
- 1,322,814(July 2024)
1
- 1,323,699(June 2024)
1
- 1,286,034(April 2026)
- Social media followers
- 44,800(April 13, 2025) youtube channel id: UCdXe3J_zZGBF-ZHnck1sggw
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- 44,800(April 13, 2025) youtube channel id: UCdXe3J_zZGBF-ZHnck1sggw
- Peh-oe-ji
- Tâi-pak-chhī
On other databases
87 identifiers linking Taipei across the web's reference databases
- AllTrails trail IDtaiwan/taipei-city
- Apple Maps "auid" identifier9271372953656269003
- Arab Encyclopedia concept ID3801
- ArchINFORM location ID5192
- BabelNet ID00015627n
- Baidu Tieba name台北市
- BBC Things IDec0139ea-d126-45f6-a8f6-34f22aac94c9
- Bibliothèque nationale de France ID120773410
- Code of Household Registration and Conscription Information System (Taiwan)63000
- Curlie IDRegional/Asia/Taiwan/Localities/Taipei_City/
- Daum Encyclopedia IDb22t1707a
- Encyclopædia Britannica Online IDplace/Taipei
- Encyclopædia Universalis IDtaipei-taibei
- Facebook location ID110765362279102
- Facebook usernamehumansoftaipei
- FactGrid item IDQ92329
- FAST ID1202696
- FIPS 10-4 (countries and regions)TW03
- Freebase ID/m/0ftkx
- GeoNames ID1668341
- GitHub topictaipei
- GND ID4078134-3
- GNS Unique Feature ID-2637882
- Google Maps Customer ID4569523934508794592
- Google News topics IDCAAqIQgKIhtDQkFTRGdvSUwyMHZNR1owYTNnU0FtcGhLQUFQAQ
- Gran Enciclopèdia Catalana IDtaipei
- Gran Enciclopèdia Catalana ID (former scheme)0064956
- Great Norwegian Encyclopedia IDTaipei
- Great Russian Encyclopedia Online ID (2017)4179370
- Gynopedia IDTaipei
- Hrvatska enciklopedija ID60208
- IdRef ID086236873
- INaturalist place ID106960
- Interlingual Index IDi82772
- ISNI0000000115343194
- ISO 3166-2 codeTW-TPE
- J9U entity ID987007268866405171
- Japan Search name ID台北
- KBpedia IDTaipei
- Larousse IDimages/Taipei/1315178
- Le Figaro tag IDTaipei
- Lex IDTaipei
- Libraries Australia ID40107625
- Library of Congress Authorities IDn50010973
- Mapy.com IDosm&id=14070421
- Moegirlpedia ID台北
- MusicBrainz area IDd7089183-0ad8-42f1-b6e4-fff99ee6d1bf
- Namuwiki ID타이베이시
- National Library of Brazil ID000092431
- National Library of Israel ID (old)000129487
- National Library of Korea IDKSH2002041390
- National Library of Spain SpMaBN IDXX458739
- Naver Encyclopedia ID (pre-August 2026)1152001
- NDL Authority ID00640078
- NicoNicoPedia word article ID台北
- NL CR AUT IDge129149
- OmegaWiki Defined Meaning727975
- Online PWN Encyclopedia ID3984966
- OpenStreetMap relation ID1293250
- OpenWeatherMap city ID1668341
- Quora topic IDTaipei
- Reddit topic ID (obsolete)taipei
- RKD thesaurus ID43205
- Slovak National Library (VIAF) IDvtls012373445
- SNARC IDQ1371
- SPAP IDp/b0138f1c-9632-4e66-9748-510c8c8417e2
- SubredditTaipeiCity
- SVKKL authority ID0307611-Tchajpej-Tchajwan
- Treccani IDtaipei
- Treccani's Enciclopedia Italiana IDtaipei
- U.S. National Archives Identifier10044860
- UK Parliament thesaurus ID13182
- UN/LOCODETWTPE
- UVL group IDcity-taipei-tw
- VIAF cluster ID137173440
- Vikidia article IDit:Taipei
- Wellcome Collection concept IDzjap7uye
- Who's on First ID85679583
- WordNet 3.1 Synset ID08748728-n
- World Historical Gazetteer place ID12345961
- WorldCat Entities IDE39PBJbGRtMj8KTBy77bc3DQbd
- Yale LUX IDplace/266b910a-682a-423d-91ca-0a433f1247b3
- Yle topic ID18-202939
- YouTube channel IDUCdXe3J_zZGBF-ZHnck1sggw
- YSA IDY239422
- YSO ID239422
- Zhihu topic ID19610199
