New Taipei

New Taipei Ceety (Cheenese: 新北市; pinyin: Xīnběi Shì) is the maist muckle ceety o Taiwan. The aurie includes a substantial stretch o Taiwan's northren coastline an surroonds the Taipei Basin. New Taipei completely surroonds Taiwan's caipital ceety Taipei, an is bordered bi Taiwan Province in several directions: Keelung tae the northeast, Yilan Coonty tae the sootheast, an Taoyuan Coonty tae the soothwast. New Taipei haed been admeenistered as Taipei Coonty (Cheenese: 臺北縣 or 台北縣) o Taiwan Province till its reorganization as a direct-controlled municipality on 25 December, 2010. Initially the offeecial Inglis version o the ceety's name wis Xinbei City. The new mayor Eric Chu requestit the name New Taipei City as the offeecial Inglis renderin insteid. The Meenistry o the Interior (MOI) approved the request on December 31. Demographics Ower 80% o New Taipei's residents live in the 10 destricts that wur umwhile coonty-controlled ceeties (Banqiao, Luzhou, Sanchong, Shulin, Tucheng, Xizhi, Xindian, Xinzhuang, Yonghe, an Zhonghe), which accoont for ane-saxt o the aurie. 28.80% o the residents moved intae the aurie frae Taipei Ceety (台北市). Govrenment an infrastructur Municipal admeenistration New Taipei controls 29 destricts (區). The sub-ceety entities consists o 1,017 veelages (里), which in turn are dividit intae 21,683 neighborhuids (鄰). (Juin 2008) See an aa: Admeenistrative diveesions o the Republic o Cheenae Naitional govrenment The Aviation Safety Cooncil, the aircraft accident investigation body o the ROC, is heidquartered in Xindian Destrict, New Taipei. Sister communities Cincinnati, Ohio, USA Miami-Dade Coonty, Florida, USA Transportation The aurie is served bi Taiwan High Speed Rail through the Banqiao Station. The Taiwan Railway Administration's Yilan Line runs through Gongliao, Shuangxi and Ruifang. The Western Line runs through Xizhi, Banqiao, Shulin and Yingge. The Pingxi Line connects Pingxi to Ruifang. The Taipei Metro serves the aurie through the Danshui Line in Danshui, the Zhonghe Line in Yonghe an Zhonghe, the Luzhou Line in Sanchong an Luzhou, the Xindian Line in Xindian, an the Bannan Line frae Banqiao on oot. The aurie's air traffic needs tae be served bo Taipei Taoyuan Internaitional Airport in neighborin Taoyuan Coonty an Songshan Airport in Taipei. Nicht mercats Quotit frae Tourism Bureau, MOTC, R.O.C. Archived 2011-07-20 at the Wayback Machine Tourist attractions New Taipei haes a wide range o historical, natural an cultural attractions. Historical attractions include Fort Santo Domingo an Qing dynasty remnants in Danshui an the auld minin touns o Jiufen, Jinguashi an Jingtong in the east. The maist famous temple is the Zushi Temple in Sanxia. Sanxia an aa contains the historic Minquan Street. There are numerous notable museums, such as Yingge's Ceramics Museum, Yonghe's Museum of World Religions, Bali's Shisanhang Museum of Archaeology, Pinglin's Pinglin Tea Museum an the Ju Ming Museum at Jinshan. Natural attractions include the Wulai an Shifen waterfaws, Wulai hot springs, hoodoo geological formations at the Yehliu seacoast, an hikin in Guanyinshan, Wulai, Pingxi an the northeast coast. Popular beaches include Fulong an Baishawan. See an aa Taipei Leet o ceeties in Taiwan References Freemit airtins Taipeipedia Archived 2011-09-24 at the Wayback Machine - a ceety wiki for foreigners http://www.tpc.gov.tw/ Archived 2012-01-03 at the Wayback Machinehttp://foreigner.tpc.gov.tw/web/Home Archived 2011-01-03 at the Wayback Machine Travel guide tae New Taipei frae Wikivoyage Tourism Bureau o New Taipei Ceety Archived 2010-12-17 at the Wayback Machine