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Tainan City
Special municipality
Clockwise from top: Downtown Tainan, Statue of Yoichi Hatta, THSR Tainan Station, Dan zai noodles, Fort Provintia, Beehive firework in Yanshuei.
Clockwise from top: Downtown Tainan, Statue of Yoichi Hatta, THSR Tainan Station, Dan zai noodles, Fort Provintia, Beehive firework in Yanshuei.
Flag of Tainan City
Flag
Official logo of Tainan City
Etymology: pinyin: Táinán; literally "Taiwan south"
Nickname(s): 
The Phoenix City (鳳凰城), The Prefecture City (府城), Nanying (南瀛)
Location of Tainan City
Country  Republic of China (Taiwan)
Seat Anping, Xinying
Districts
Government
 • Body
  • Tainan City Government
  • Tainan City Council
Area
 • Special municipality 2,191.65 km2 (846.20 sq mi)
 • Urban
259 km2 (100 sq mi)
Area rank 7 out of 22
Population
 (October 2019)
 • Special municipality 1,881,204
 • Rank 6 of 22
 • Density 858.3506/km2 (2,223.118/sq mi)
 • Urban
1,205,000
 • Urban density 4,653/km2 (12,050/sq mi)
Time zone UTC+8 (National Standard Time)
Postal code
700-745
Area code(s) (0)6
ISO 3166 code TW-TNN
Bird Pheasant-tailed jacana
Flower Phalaenopsis
Tree Delonix regia
Website www.tainan.gov.tw/tainanE

Tainan City (Chinese: 台南市) is a city in Southern Taiwan. It is the fifth largest city after Taipei, Kaohsiung, New Taipei City and Taichung City.

Tainan was the capital of Taiwan in 1661 when Koxinga took the island from Dutch colonial rule. In 1684, the Qing Dynasty conquered Taiwan and created "Taiwan Fu" (the first local government in Taiwan). This was later renamed to "Tainan Fu" in 1885. Because it was the capital of Taiwan, Tainan is also called Fu-cheng (Government City). Tainan was also the capital of the Republic of Formosa.

Tainan is one of the oldest cities in Taiwan, with the Dutch port at An-ping (安平) in 1624. It is also one of Taiwan's cultural capitals, as it built the First Confucian School/Temple on the island. There are remains of the Northern and Southern gates of the old city, and other old monuments.

Tainan is the city with the most Buddhist and/or Taoist temples on Taiwan. Tainan City is surrounded by Tainan County to the north and east and the South China Sea to the west and south.

Districts

Tainan City once had six districts: Anping, Annan, East, West Central, South, and North districts. Annan district was originally the An-Shun township of Tainan County, and was added into Tainan City in 1946.

In December 25, 2010, it got merged with Tainan county, and upgraded into a special municipality. Its name remains Tainan City. Now the great Tainan City has 31 districts, and the central government want those districts incorporated into 10 to 12 districts in the future.

But people in every township are not very positive about this. Because people are afraid that their budget would be downsized while every administrative area become much larger. For the central and local city government, there is a long way to go.

Twin towns and sister cities

Tainan has 28 twin towns and sister cities worldwide. Tainan signed the agreements with 9 cities in the US between 1965 to 1991. They are:

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