a city in China, in the northern part of the island of Taiwan. Situated on the navigable Tanshui River. Capital of Taiwan Province. Population, 1.8 million (1971).
Taipei is the largest city and the chief economic center of the province. It is a hub for railroad and air transportation, with the international airports of Sungshan and T’aoyiian. Chilung (Kee-lung), with which Taipei forms a single transportation and industrial complex, is Taipei’s outer port. Taipei has various branches of industry, such as metallurgy and the production of cement, chemicals, wood products, and paper. The machine-building industry is represented by shipbuilding and electronics, and the perfume and pharmaceuticals industry by the processing of camphor and other products. Enterprises of the food industry include sugar refineries, tea factories, and vegetable, fruit, and fish canneries. Coal is mined on the outskirts of Taipei.
Taipei is the sea of the Kuomintang administration (as of 1979).