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Special municipality in Republic of China
Tainan City
臺南市[I]
Tâi-lâm
Special municipality
Clockwise from top: Downtown Tainan, statue of Yoichi Hatta, THSR Tainan Station, danzai noodles, Fort Provintia, beehive firework in Yanshuei
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Etymology: pinyin: Táinán; lit. 'Taiwan south'
Nickname(s):
The Phoenix City (鳳凰城),[1] The Prefecture City (府城), Nanying (南瀛)
Country
Republic of China (Taiwan)
Formed under Fort Zeelandia
1624
Capital of Kingdom of Tungning
1661
Tainan Prefecture
1895
Provincial city status
25 October 1945
Upgraded to special municipality and merger with Tainan County
25 December 2010
Seat
Anping, Xinying[2]
Districts
37
Xinying
Yanshuei
Baihe
Liouying
Houbi
Dongshan
Madou
Xiaying
Lioujia
Guantian
Danei
Jiali
Syuejia
Sigang
Cigu
Jiangjun
Beimen
Sinhua
Shanhua
Sinshih
Anding
Shanshan
Yujing
Nansi
Nanhua
Zuojhen
Rende
Gueiren
Guanmiao
Longci
Yongkang
East
South
North
Annan
Anping
West Central
Government
• Body
Tainan City Government
Tainan City Council
• Mayor
Huang Wei-cher (DPP)
Area
[3][4]
• Special municipality
2,191.65 km2 (846.20 sq mi)
• Urban
259 km2 (100 sq mi)
• Rank
7 out of 22
Population
(March 2023)[5]
• Special municipality
1,856,642
• Rank
6 of 22
• Density
850/km2 (2,200/sq mi)
• Urban
[6]
1,205,000
• Urban density
4,700/km2 (12,000/sq mi)
Time zone
UTC+8 (National Standard Time)
Postal code
700–745
Area code
(0)6
ISO 3166 code
TW-TNN
Bird
Pheasant-tailed jacana
Flower
Phalaenopsis
Tree
Delonix regia
Website
www.tainan.gov.tw/en/(in English)
Tainan City
Chinese name
Traditional Chinese
臺南市
Simplified Chinese
台南市
Transcriptions
Standard Mandarin
Hanyu Pinyin
Táinán Shì
Bopomofo
ㄊㄞˊ ㄋㄢˊ ㄕˋ
Gwoyeu Romatzyh
Tairnan Shyh
Wade–Giles
T'ai2-nan2 Shih4
Tongyong Pinyin
Táinán Shìh
MPS2
Táinán Shr̀
IPA
[tʰǎɪ.nǎn ʂɻ̩̂]
Hakka
Pha̍k-fa-sṳ
Thòi-nàm-sṳ
Southern Min
Hokkien POJ
Tâi-lâm-chhī
Tâi-lô
Tâi-lâm-tshī
Japanese name
Hiragana
たいなんし
Katakana
タイナンシ
Kyūjitai
臺南市
Shinjitai
台南市
Transcriptions
Revised Hepburn
Tainan-shi
Kunrei-shiki
Tainan-si
Tainan (/ˈtaɪˈnɑːn/),[7] officially Tainan City,[I] is a special municipality in southern Taiwan facing the Taiwan Strait on its western coast. Tainan is the oldest city on the island and commonly called the "prefectural capital"[II] for its over 260 years of history as the capital of Taiwan under the Dutch rule, the Kingdom of Tungning and later Qing dynasty rule until 1887. Tainan's complex history of comebacks, redefinitions and renewals inspired its popular nickname "the Phoenix City".[8] Tainan is classified as a "Sufficiency"-level global city by the Globalization and World Cities Research Network.[9]
As Taiwan's oldest urban area, Tainan was initially established by the Dutch East India Company (VOC) as a ruling and trading base called Fort Zeelandia during the Dutch colonial rule on the island. After Koxinga seized the Dutch fort in 1662, Tainan remained as the capital of the Tungning Kingdom ruled by House of Koxinga until 1683 and afterwards the capital of Taiwan Prefecture under the Qing dynasty until 1887, when the new provincial capital was first moved to present-day Taichung, and then to Taipei eventually. Following the cession of Taiwan, Tainan became the second capital of the short-lived Republic of Formosa from June to October in 1895 until the Capitulation of Tainan by the invading forces of Japanese empire. Under Japanese rule, the city was the seat of Tainan Prefecture. After the surrender of Japan in World War II, the Republic of China took control of Taiwan in 1945 and reorganized the city as a provincial city in Taiwan Province; a role that would remain in place until 2010 when the city was merged with nearby Tainan County into a new special municipality.
Tainan has been historically regarded as one of the oldest cities in Taiwan, and its former name, Tayouan, has been claimed to be the origin of the name "Taiwan". It is also one of Taiwan's cultural capitals, for its rich folk cultures including the famous local street food and traditional cuisine, extensively preserved Taoist rites and other living local traditions covering everything from child birth to funerals. The city houses the first Confucian school–temple in Taiwan, built in 1665,[10] the remains of the Eastern and Southern gates of the old city, and countless other historical monuments. Tainan claims more Buddhist and Taoist temples than any other city in Taiwan.
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^"Demographia World Urban Areas PDF (April 2016)" (PDF). Demographia. Archived (PDF) from the original on 3 May 2018. Retrieved 13 June 2016.
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^Chang, Winnie (April 1994). "Rise of the Phoenix?". Taiwan Today. Archived from the original on 2012-07-28. Retrieved 2012-01-10.
^"The World According to GaWC 2020". GaWC – Research Network. Globalization and World Cities. Archived from the original on 24 August 2020. Retrieved 31 August 2020.
^"Tainan Confucian Temple". Council for Cultural Affairs. Archived from the original on 2008-05-01. Retrieved 2008-08-19.
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