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Place in Tainan, Taiwan

Tainan metropolitan area
Downtown Tainan
Tainan metropolitan area in yellow
Coordinates: 23°00′N 120°13′E / 23.000°N 120.217°E / 23.000; 120.217
Country	Taiwan
Major Cities	Tainan
Area
• Metro	601.89 km (232.39 sq mi)
Population
• Metro	1,359,898
• Metro density	2,259.35/km (5,851.7/sq mi)

Tainan metropolitan area (Chinese: 臺南都會區; pinyin: Táinán Dūhuì Qū) is the urban area of Tainan City in southern Taiwan.

Definition

According to the definition of metropolitan areas formerly used by the government, Tainan metropolitan area includes the following areas:

Tainan City (core city)		Kaohsiung City
Anding District Annan District Anping District Cigu District East District Guanmiao District	Gueiren District North District Rende District South District West Central District Yongkang District	Hunei District Qieding District

However, since the merger of Tainan City and the former Tainan County, the term is no longer in official usage.

Cities (3)	Keelung Hsinchu Chiayi
Counties (13)	Hsinchu Yilan Miaoli Changhua Nantou Yunlin Chiayi Pingtung Taitung Hualien Penghu Kinmen Lienchiang

Districts under special municipalities / cities
Cities / townships under counties

The provinces are merely retained as nominal entities within the constitutional structure, as they have no governing power following the formal dissolution of the provincial administrative organs in 2018. Cities and counties are de facto regarded as the principal constituent divisions of the ROC.
- Sarah Shair-Rosenfield (November 2020). "Taiwan Combined" (PDF). The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Retrieved 29 May 2021.

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