Keelung City

基隆市
Kīrun, Ke-lung, Chilung
基隆市 Kīrun, Ke-lung, Chilung
City
	Keelung City
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	Coordinates: 25°08′N 121°44′E / 25.133°N 121.733°ECoordinates: 25°08′N 121°44′E / 25.133°N 121.733°E
Country	Taiwan (Republic of China)
Region	Northern Taiwan
Districts	7
City seat	Zhongzheng District
Government
• Mayor	Lin Yu-chang (DPP)
• Deputy Mayor	Lin Yong-fa
Area
• Total	132.7589 km2 (51.2585 sq mi)
• Rank	18 of 22
Population (2016)
• Total	371,878
• Rank	16 of 22
• Density	2,801.153/km2 (7,254.953/sq mi)
Time zone	UTC+8 (National Standard Time)
Postal code	200–206
ISO 3166 code	TW-KEE
– Bird	Eagle
– Flower	Common crepe myrtle
– Tree	Formosan Sweet-gum
English	Keelung/KLC
Chinese	基隆/基市
Website	klcg.gov.tw

Keelung (pinyin: Jīlóng; Hokkien POJ: Ke-lâng), officially known as Keelung City, is a provincial city of Taiwan Province, Republic of China. It is in the northeastern part of the island. It is next to Taipei County. Nicknamed the Rainy Port for its frequent rain and maritime role, the city is Taiwan's second largest seaport (after Kaohsiung).

History

Keelung was first inhabited by the Ketagalan, a tribe of Taiwanese aborigine. The Spanish expedition to Formosa in the early 17th century was its first contact with the West; by 1624 the Spanish had built San Salvador de Quelung, a fort in Keelung serving as an outpost of the Manila-based Spanish East Indies.^[4] The Spanish ruled it as a part of Spanish Formosa. From 1642 to 1661 and 1663–1668, Keelung was under Dutch control.^[5]^[6] The Dutch East India Company took over the Spanish Fort San Salvador at Santissima Trinidad.

Keelung is twinned with:

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↑ "Deputy Mayor". Keelung City Government. Archived from the original on 27 December 2014. Retrieved 17 December 2016.
↑ 人口統計. www.klcg.gov.tw (in 中文). Archived from the original on 29 May 2016. Retrieved 6 June 2016.
↑ Altares, Guillermo (12 November 2016) (in es). Una excavación aporta una nueva visión de la colonización de Asia. http://cultura.elpais.com/cultura/2016/11/12/actualidad/1478959382_298788.html. Retrieved 13 November 2016.
↑ Twitchett, Denis Crispin (1978). The Cambridge history of China, Volume 2; Volume 8. Cambridge University Press. p. 46. ISBN 9780521243339. OCLC 613665518.
↑ "Ming Dynasty and Cheng Cheng kung's Era". Keelung City Government. Archived from the original on 25 May 2010. Retrieved 12 June 2010.

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基隆市 Kīrun, Ke-lung, Chilung
City
Keelung City

Flag Logo


Coordinates: 25°08′N 121°44′E / 25.133°N 121.733°E / 25.133; 121.733Coordinates: 25°08′N 121°44′E / 25.133°N 121.733°E / 25.133; 121.733
Country	Taiwan (Republic of China)
Region	Northern Taiwan
Districts	7^[1]
City seat	Zhongzheng District
Government
• Mayor	Lin Yu-chang (DPP)
• Deputy Mayor	Lin Yong-fa^[2]
Area
• Total	132.7589 km² (51.2585 sq mi)
• Rank	18 of 22
Population (2016)^[3]
• Total	371,878
• Rank	16 of 22
• Density	2,801.153/km² (7,254.953/sq mi)
Time zone	UTC+8 (National Standard Time)
Postal code	200–206
ISO 3166 code	TW-KEE
– Bird	Eagle
– Flower	Common crepe myrtle
– Tree	Formosan Sweet-gum
English	Keelung/KLC
Chinese	基隆/基市
Website	klcg.gov.tw