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Taichung City
台中市
File:Taichung City flag.gif File:Taichung City seal.png
City flag City seal

Abbreviation: Central City (中市)

City nickname: The cultural city

Capital DistrictWest Dist. (西區)
Region Central Taiwan
MayorJason Hu (胡志強)

Area

Ranked 18 of 25

 - Total
 - % water

163.4256 km²
?%

Population

Ranked 9 of 25

 - Total (May 2004)
 - Density

1,114,080
6205/km²

Districts: 8
City flower:?
City tree:Dita bark (Alstonia Scholaris)
City bird:Little egret (Egretta garzetta)


Taichung (台中, Hanyu Pinyin: Táizhōng, Wade-Giles: T'ai-chung, Taiwanese POJ: Tâi-tiong) is a city located in west-central Taiwan with a population of just over one million people, making it the third largest city on the island, after Taipei and Kaohsiung. The city's name is Chinese for "Central Taiwan." Taichung City (台中市) is administratively a municipality of Taiwan Province of the Republic of China. It is surrounded completely by Taichung County.

Taichung is home to Chung-hsing University (中興大學), Fengchia University (逢甲大學), Providence University (靜宜大學), and Tunghai University (東海大學).

Taichung is famous for Taiyang Bing (Suncakes). Taichung's Chun Shui Tang teahouse (春水堂) is where pearl milk tea was invented. The city is also the birthplace of actress/singer Vivian Hsu.


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Administrative divisions of Taiwan
Special municipalities (6)
"Provinces [zh]"
Cities (3)
Counties (13)
Districts under special municipalities / cities
Cities / townships under counties		List of townships/cities and districts in Taiwan
  • The provinces are merely retained as nominal entities within the constitutional structure, as they have no governing power following the formal dissolution of the provincial administrative organs in 2018. Cities and counties are de facto regarded as the principal constituent divisions of the ROC.
    • Sarah Shair-Rosenfield (November 2020). "Taiwan Combined" (PDF). The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Retrieved 29 May 2021.
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