Keelung City
Keelung (pinyin: Jīlóng; Hokkien POJ: Ke-lâng), officially known as Keelung City, is a provincial city of Taiwan Province, Republic of China. It is in the northeastern part of the island. It is next to Taipei County. Nicknamed the Rainy Port for its frequent rain and maritime role, the city is Taiwan's second largest seaport (after Kaohsiung).
Keelung
基隆市 Kīrun, Ke-lung, Chilung | |
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Keelung City | |
Nickname: The Rainy Port (雨港) | |
Coordinates: 25°08′N 121°44′E / 25.133°N 121.733°E | |
Country | Taiwan (Republic of China) |
Region | Northern Taiwan |
Districts | 7[1] |
City seat | Zhongzheng District |
Government | |
• Mayor | Lin Yu-chang (DPP) |
• Deputy Mayor | Lin Yong-fa[2] |
Area | |
• Total | 132.7589 km2 (51.2585 sq mi) |
• Rank | 18 of 22 |
Population (2016)[3] | |
• Total | 371,878 |
• Rank | 16 of 22 |
• Density | 2,800/km2 (7,300/sq mi) |
Time zone | UTC+8 (National Standard Time) |
Postal code | 200–206 |
Area code | (0)32 |
ISO 3166 code | TW-KEE |
– Bird | Eagle |
– Flower | Common crepe myrtle |
– Tree | Formosan Sweet-gum |
English | Keelung/KLC |
Chinese | 基隆/基市 |
Website | klcg.gov.tw |
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History
changeEarly History
changeKeelung was first inhabited by the Ketagalan, a tribe of Taiwanese aborigine. The Spanish expedition to Formosa in the early 17th century was its first contact with the West; by 1624 the Spanish had built San Salvador de Quelung, a fort in Keelung serving as an outpost of the Manila-based Spanish East Indies.[4] The Spanish ruled it as a part of Spanish Formosa. From 1642 to 1661 and 1663–1668, Keelung was under Dutch control.[5][6] The Dutch East India Company took over the Spanish Fort San Salvador at Santissima Trinidad.
International relations
changeTwin towns – Sister cities
changeKeelung is twinned with:
- Bacolod and Davao City, Philippines
- Bikini Atoll, Marshall Islands
- Campbell, California, U.S.
- Corpus Christi, Texas, U.S.
- East London, South Africa
- Marrickville, New South Wales, Australia
- Miyakojima, Okinawa, Japan
- Rosemead, California, U.S.
- Salt Lake City, Utah, U.S.
- Sangju, North Gyeongsang, South Korea
- Thunder Bay, Ontario, Canada
- Yakima, Washington, U.S.
References
change- ↑ 1.0 1.1 "Geography". Keelung City Government. Retrieved 3 April 2019.
Keelung City is divided into seven districts, which are Zhongzheng District, Xinyi District, Ren-ai District, Zhongshan District, Anle District, Nuannuan District and Qidu District.{...}Ren-ai District is the smallest one.{...}Ren-ai District{...}
- ↑ "Deputy Mayor". Keelung City Government. Archived from the original on 27 December 2014. Retrieved 17 December 2016.
- ↑ 人口統計. www.klcg.gov.tw (in Chinese). Archived from the original on 29 May 2016. Retrieved 6 June 2016.
- ↑ Altares, Guillermo (12 November 2016). "Una excavación aporta una nueva visión de la colonización de Asia". El País (in Spanish). Archived from the original on 13 November 2016. Retrieved 13 November 2016.
- ↑ Twitchett, Denis Crispin (1978). The Cambridge history of China, Volume 2; Volume 8. Cambridge University Press. p. 46. ISBN 9780521243339. OCLC 613665518.
- ↑ "Ming Dynasty and Cheng Cheng kung's Era". Keelung City Government. Archived from the original on 25 May 2010. Retrieved 12 June 2010.
Other websites
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Data from Wikidata |
- Keelung City Government official website (in English)
- Keelung Harbor Bureau official website (in English)
- WorldStatesmen.org — Taiwan
- Geographic data related to Keelung City at OpenStreetMap