City
Taipei
Capital of Taiwan
What guided this image
- Landmarks
- Taipei; National Chiang Kai-shek Memorial Hall; Grand Hotel; Longshan Temple; Keelung River; Elephant Mountain; Qing
- Viewpoint
- Favor the classic elevated viewpoint from the ridges of Elephant Mountain (Xiangshan) looking west over the Taipei Basin, showing subtropical fern trees and boulders in the foreground, Taipei 101 and the Xinyi district in the middle-ground, and the vast urban basin backed by the gentle blue-gray ridges of Yangmingshan.
- Palette
- Green should be the predominant color, especially in the steep forested slopes of Elephant Mountain and Yangmingshan, riverside parklands, and tree-lined boulevards.
- Guarded against
- Not Hong Kong, Tokyo, or a generic Asian megacity
Population7,871,900Wikidata: 2,704,810
Coordinates25.05°N, 121.53°E
Elevation10 m
Area272 km²
Time zoneAsia/TaipeiUTC+8
Solar noon11:54clock runs 0.1 h behind the sun
Through the Earth
Dig straight through the Earth from Taipei and you surface nearest to El Espinillo, Argentina — 11 km from the exact antipodal point.
Nearest cities in the atlas
| New Taipei City | TW | 7 km |
| Taichung | TW | 132 km |
| Fuzhou | CN | 249 km |
| Putian | CN | 257 km |
| Tainan | TW | 265 km |
| Quanzhou | CN | 297 km |
| Kaohsiung | TW | 297 km |
| Jinjiang | CN | 300 km |
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