Tainan City (臺南市) is a ceety in soothren Taiwan, the fift lairgest efter New Taipei, Taipei, Kaohsiung, an Taichung. It wis a provincial municipality o Taiwan Province, the ceety merged wi the adjacent Tainan Coonty tae form a single direct-controlled municipality in December 2010. It is surroondit bi the Taiwan Strait tae the wast an sooth. Tainan's complex history o comebacks, redefinitions an renewals inspired its popular nickname "Ceety o the Phoenix."