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Taoyuan City

Taoyuan
桃園市
Special municipality
Taoyuan
From left to right, top to bottom: China Airlines passenger plane on the Taoyuan International Airport, Taoyuan district , Yongan Fishing Port, HSR Taoyuan Station, Daxi Old Street of Baroque architecture, Shihmen Reservoir, Small Wulai Waterfall
From left to right, top to bottom: China Airlines passenger plane on the Taoyuan International Airport, Taoyuan district , Yongan Fishing Port, HSR Taoyuan Station, Daxi Old Street of Baroque architecture, Shihmen Reservoir, Small Wulai Waterfall
Flag of Taoyuan
Flag
Official logo of Taoyuan
Logo
Location of Taoyuan
Coordinates: 24°59′28.6″N 121°18′51.58″E / 24.991278°N 121.3143278°E / 24.991278; 121.3143278Coordinates: 24°59′28.6″N 121°18′51.58″E / 24.991278°N 121.3143278°E / 24.991278; 121.3143278
Country Taiwan
Region Northern Taiwan
Seat Taoyuan District
Districts
Government
 • Type Taoyuan City Government
 • Mayor Cheng Wen-tsan (DPP)
 • Deputy Mayor Chiu Tai-san
Area
 • Special municipality 1,220.95 km2 (471.41 sq mi)
 • Urban 1,140 km2 (440 sq mi)
Area rank 14 of 22
Population (2016)
 • Special municipality 2,116,988
 • Rank 5 of 22
 • Density 1,700/km2 (4,500/sq mi)
 • Urban 8,500,000
 • Urban density 7,500/km2 (19,000/sq mi)
Time zone National Standard Time (UTC+8)
Postal code 320-338
ISO 3166 code TW-TAO
Bird Formosan blue magpie (Urocissa caerulea)
Flower Peach blossom
Tree Peach tree
Website www.tycg.gov.tw (English)
Taoyuan, Taiwan
Traditional Chinese 桃園市
Simplified Chinese 桃园市

Taoyuan (Chinese: 桃園市; pinyin: Táoyuán Shì), is a special municipality in northwestern Taiwan, neighboring New Taipei, Hsinchu County, and Yilan County. Taoyuan District is the seat of the municipal government and that which, along with Zhongli District, forms a large metropolitan area. Taoyuan developed from a satellite city of Taipei metropolitan area to be the fourth-largest metropolitan area, and fifth-largest populated city in Taiwan. Since commuting to the Taipei metropolitan area is easy, Taoyuan has seen the fastest population growth of all cities in Taiwan.

"Taoyuan" means "peach garden," since the area used to have many peach blossom trees. The city is home to many industrial parks and tech company headquarters. Taipei Taoyuan International Airport, which serves the capital, Taipei and the rest of northern Taiwan, is located in this city.

The city of Taoyuan has been elevated to special municipality status since 2014 from the original Taoyuan County. At the same time, the former county-controlled city of Taoyuan was also promoted to Taoyuan District within the new municipality.

In ancient times, the Taoyuan plateau was the home of the Taiwanese plains aborigines. In prehistory, the Ketagalan people settled in Nankan (). In the early years of Dutch colonization, Spanish colonization, and Zheng He of the Ming Dynasty, there were no large-scale cultivation or industrial activities. During the Qing era, a number of people from Fujian Province and Guangdong province began to immigrate into present-day Taoyuan to develop and farm the land. They planted peach trees, which, when fully bloomed in spring, were so beautiful that the people named the land Toahong (Chinese: 桃仔園; pinyin: Táozǐyuán; Pe̍h-ōe-jī: Thô-á-hn̂g; literally: "peach orchard").


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