New Taipei
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New Taipei Ceety (Cheenese: 新北市; pinyin: Xīnběi Shì[1]) is the maist muckle ceety o Taiwan. The aurie includes a substantial stretch o Taiwan's northren coastline an surroonds the Taipei Basin. New Taipei completely surroonds Taiwan's caipital ceety Taipei, an is bordered bi Taiwan Province in several directions: Keelung tae the northeast, Yilan Coonty tae the sootheast, an Taoyuan Coonty tae the soothwast.
New Taipei 新北 | |
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Special municipality | |
New Taipei City · 新北市 | |
Clockwise frae top: New Taipei Brig, Banqiao Destrict, Pingxi Line, Tamsui River, Jiufen, Shifen watterfaw | |
Coordinates: 25°00′40″N 121°26′45″E | |
Kintra | Republic o Cheenae |
Region | Northren Taiwan |
Ceety seat | Banqiao Destrict |
Govrenment | |
• Teep | New Taipei Ceety Govrenment |
• Mayor | Hou You-yi |
Area | |
• Special municipality | 2052.5667 km2 (792.5004 sq mi) |
Population (October 2010) | |
• Special municipality | 3,893,740 |
• Density | 1,900/km2 (4,900/sq mi) |
• Metro | 6,870,357 |
Population Rankit 1 o 22 | |
Time zone | UTC+8 (CST) |
Postal code | 207, 208, 220 – 224, 226 – 228, 231 – 239, 241 – 244, 247 – 249, 251 – 253 |
Area code(s) | (0)2 |
Destricts | 29 |
Website | English Chinese |
The metropolitan aurie (or tri-ceeties) o Taipei includes Taipei, New Taipei an Keelung |
New Taipei haed been admeenistered as Taipei Coonty (Cheenese: 臺北縣 or 台北縣) o Taiwan Province till its reorganization as a direct-controlled municipality on 25 December, 2010. Initially the offeecial Inglis version o the ceety's name wis Xinbei City.[2][3] The new mayor Eric Chu requestit the name New Taipei City as the offeecial Inglis renderin insteid.[4] The Meenistry o the Interior (MOI) approved the request on December 31.[5]