Images of Taipei, Keelung, Taoyuan, Yehliu and Tamsui. April and May 2024.
“Taipei has been the political centre of the island since 1887, when it first became the seat of Taiwan Province by the Qing dynasty until 1895 and again from 1945 to 1956 by the ROC government, with an interregnum from 1895 to 1945 as the seat of the Government-General of Taiwan during the Japanese rule.
“Before the city was founded by the Spanish Empire in 1626, then called La Santisima Trinidad, present-day Keelung was inhabited by Taiwanese indigenous peoples and was part of Spanish and Dutch colonial rule before being subsumed into the Qing dynasty in 1683 as part of Fujian.
“‘Taoyuan’ literally means ‘peach garden’ in Chinese, since the area used to have many peach trees. Formerly a county, Taoyuan became the latest new founding special municipality in 2014.
“Yehliu is a cape in Wanli District, New Taipei. A distinctive feature of the cape is the hoodoo stones that dot its surface. These shapes can be viewed at the Yehliu Geopark operated by the North Coast and Guanyinshan National Scenic Area administration.
“Tamsui is a seaside district in New Taipei City adjacent to the Tamsui River and overlooking the Taiwan Strait. The name of the district means ‘fresh water’ in Chinese.”
Ref: Wikipedia.
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