Taiwan

Kaohsiung City is a prefecture-level city under the jurisdiction of Taiwan Province, the People's Republic of China. It is located in the southwest of Taiwan Island. It was formed by the merger of the former prefecture-level Kaohsiung City and Kaohsiung County directly under the Taiwan Region on December 25, 2010. The city center is located at 120°19'32" east longitude and 22°37'29" north latitude. Its jurisdiction extends to the Central Mountain Range and the main peak of Yushan in the northeast, and to Taiping Island, Zhongzhou Island, and Dongsha Islands in the South China Sea in the southwest. In a clockwise direction, it is adjacent to Tainan City, Chiayi County, Nantou County, Hualien County, Taitung County, Pingtung County and other counties and cities. Kaohsiung City has an area of ​​2,947 square kilometers and a total population of 2.78 million (2017), ranking second in Taiwan.

Taipei City, commonly known as Taipei, is a municipality[4] and the capital[5][6] of the Republic of China. It is located in northern Taiwan, in the northeastern half of the Taipei Basin[1]. It is the central city of the Taipei metropolitan area and northern Taiwan, and is surrounded by New Taipei City[7]:1. The city has 12 districts[1][8], with the city seat in Xinyi District. The registered population of the entire city is approximately 2.49 million[2], with a population density of more than 9,100 people per square kilometer. It is the fourth most populous[Note 2] and most densely populated county-level administrative district in the Republic of China[Note 3]. The history of the establishment of Taipei City can be traced back to the establishment of Taipei Prefecture in 1876 and Taipei City in 1884 in the late Qing Dynasty. The establishment of Taipei Prefecture City in 1920 during the mid-Japanese colonial period marked the beginning of the official establishment of Taipei City[9]. In 1945, when the Republic of China was established, Taipei was a provincial city and the provincial capital of Taiwan Province (the latter until 1956, when the provincial government moved south to Zhongxing New Village). In 1949, it became the capital when the government moved to Taiwan. In 1967, it was upgraded to a municipality[10]:17. Since then, it has become the development center of Taiwan's finance, economy, politics, science and technology, education, and culture, and has formed a large metropolitan area with surrounding counties and cities. In 2020, Taipei was rated as an "Alpha-" city by the Globalization and World Cities Research Network (GaWC)[11].