Keelung City

Keelung 基隆市 Kīrun, Ke-lung, Chilung
City
Keelung City
Top: A panoramic view of downtown Keelung and Keelung Port Second left: Main gate of Chung Cheng Park Second right: Start of Sun Yat-sen Freeway Third left: Northern coast of Keelung Third right: Keelung Port Bottom left: A pencil squid (Loliginidae)-style windmill in downtown Bottom right: Keelung Island
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Nickname:  The Rainy Port (雨港)
Coordinates: 25°08′N 121°44′E
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 km^2 (51.2585 sq mi)
• Rank	18 of 22
Population  (2016)[3]
• Total	371,878
• Rank	16 of 22
• Density	2,800/km^2 (7,300/sq mi)
Time zone	UTC+8 (National Standard Time)
Postal code	200–206
Area code	(0)32
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 City
Chinese name
Chinese	基隆市
Transcriptions Standard Mandarin Hanyu Pinyin Jīlóng Shì Bopomofo ㄐㄧ   ㄌㄨㄥˊ   ㄕˋ Gwoyeu Romatzyh Jilong Shyh Wade–Giles Chi¹-lung² Shih⁴ Tongyong Pinyin Jilóng Shìh Yale Romanization Jīlúng Shr̀ MPS2 Jīlúng Shr̀ IPA [tɕí.lʊ̌ŋ ʂɻ̩̂] Hakka Pha̍k-fa-sṳ Kî-lùng-sṳ Southern Min Hokkien POJ Ke-lâng-chhī Tâi-lô Ke-lâng-tshī
Taiwanese Hokkien Name
Chinese	雞籠市
Transcriptions Southern Min Hokkien POJ Ke-lâng-chhī/Koe-lâng-chhī
Japanese name
Kanji	基隆市
Kana	キールンし
Transcriptions Romanization Kīrun-shi

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

Early 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.

International relations

Twin towns – Sister cities

Keelung is twinned with:

• Bacolod and Davao City, Philippines
• Bikini Atoll, Marshall Islands
• Campbell, California, U.S.
• Corpus Christi, Texas, U.S.
• East London, South Africa
• Marrickville, New South Wales, Australia
• Miyakojima, Okinawa, Japan
• Rosemead, California, U.S.
• Salt Lake City, Utah, U.S.
• Sangju, North Gyeongsang, South Korea
• Thunder Bay, Ontario, Canada
• Yakima, Washington, U.S.

References

1. "Geography". Keelung City Government. Retrieved 3 April 2019. Keelung City is divided into seven districts, which are Zhongzheng District, Xinyi District, Ren-ai District, Zhongshan District, Anle District, Nuannuan District and Qidu District.{...}Ren-ai District is the smallest one.{...}Ren-ai District{...}
2. "Deputy Mayor". Keelung City Government. Archived from the original on 27 December 2014. Retrieved 17 December 2016.
3. 人口統計. www.klcg.gov.tw (in Chinese). Archived from the original on 29 May 2016. Retrieved 6 June 2016.
4. Altares, Guillermo (12 November 2016). "Una excavación aporta una nueva visión de la colonización de Asia". El País (in Spanish). Archived from the original on 13 November 2016. Retrieved 13 November 2016.
5. Twitchett, Denis Crispin (1978). The Cambridge history of China, Volume 2; Volume 8. Cambridge University Press. p. 46. ISBN 9780521243339. OCLC 613665518.
6. "Ming Dynasty and Cheng Cheng kung's Era". Keelung City Government. Archived from the original on 25 May 2010. Retrieved 12 June 2010.

Other websites

• Keelung City Government official website (in English)
• Keelung Harbor Bureau official website (in English)
• WorldStatesmen.org — Taiwan
• Geographic data related to Keelung City at OpenStreetMap