Taipei 101 was the tallest building in the world from 2004 to 2010 and holds a 660-tonne tuned mass damper.
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Taiwan
Republic of China (Taiwan) ยท ๅฐ็ฃ
Asia
ยท Eastern Asia
0Population
36.19Kkmยฒ of land
$47.82KGDP / person
TaipeiCapital
- ISO codes
- TW ยท TWN
- Density
- 651 /kmยฒ
- Languages
- Chinese
- Currency
- New Taiwan dollar (TWD)
- Dial code
- +886
- Internet domain
- .tw
- Time zones
- 1
- Coastline
- Has a coast
- Map centre
- 23.6520ยฐ N, 120.8680ยฐ E
- Demonym
- Taiwanese
- UN region
- Eastern Asia
- Economy
- Developed region: nonG7
- Income group
- High income: nonOECD
- Total GDP
- $1.13T
- Sovereignty
- Not independent ยท not a UN member
- Borders
- None
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By the numbers
How Taiwan stacks up against all 242 mapped countries.
Population
56th
of 242 ยท 0.31% of world population
Land area
137th
of 242 ยท 0.02% of world land
GDP per person
30th
richest of 242 by output per person
Population density
17th
most crowded of 242
Ten facts about Taiwan
The first is hand-written; the rest are worked out from this country's own figures.
Population is about 23,568,378 people, the 56th largest of the 242 countries mapped here - roughly 0.31 per cent of everyone alive.
Covers 36,193 kmยฒ, making it the 137th largest country here - about 3.9 times the size of Cyprus.
Population density is about 651 people per kmยฒ.
The capital is Taipei, at 25.04ยฐ N, 121.57ยฐ E, with a metropolitan population of about 6,900,273.
Has no land neighbours - it is an island nation, surrounded entirely by water.
Has its own coastline and direct access to the open sea.
Keeps a single time zone, Asia/Taipei.
The currency is the New Taiwan dollar (TWD, symbol $).
The official language is Chinese.
Local time
Live, from PHP's IANA database.
Asia/Taipei
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UTC+08:00
Cities
The largest places we hold coordinates for. Click a row to fly the map there.
1
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Taipei
Taipei City
25.0358ยฐ N, 121.5683ยฐ E
6.9M
2
Kaohsiung
Kaohsiung City
22.6333ยฐ N, 120.2666ยฐ E
2.77M
3
Taichung
Taichung City
24.1521ยฐ N, 120.6817ยฐ E
2.63M