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Taipei WTC Nangang EXPO Hall |
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| Region | Eastern Taipei | ||
| Director | Jiang Qing-Hui (江慶輝) | ||
| Area ■ Total |
Ranked 5th of 12 21.8424 km² |
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| Population ■ Total ■ Density |
Ranked 12th of 12 112,743 5,152/km² |
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| Villages (里; li) | 19 | ||
| Neighborhoods (鄰; lin) | 423 | ||
| ROC zip code | 115 | ||
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| Traditional Chinese | 南港區 | ||||||||||||||
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Nangang District (Chinese: 南港區; pinyin: Nángǎng Qū) is a southeastern district of Taipei. It is the seat of the Academia Sinica, Taipei World Trade Center Nangang Exhibition Hall, and Nankang Software Park (NKSP).
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The following placenames are romanized in Hanyu Pinyin, with Wade-Giles in parentheses, which is the legacy standard spelling:
Nangang was settled in 1735 by Fujianese, especially in the present villages of Nangang, Sanchong, and Dongxin. Until Japanese rule, the placename was Great Jia'na Fortress, Nangang-Sanchong Port (大加吶堡南港三重埔). Nangang, literally "Southern Port", refers to its position on Keelung River.
In 1920, Nangang was part of Neihu Hamlet, Qixing Prefecture, Taipei District (台北州七星郡內湖庄). In December 1945, the administrative levels were changed to Neihu Township, Qixing District, Taipei County (台北縣七星區內湖鄉). July 6 the following year, as proposed by Que Shankeng (闕山坑), Nangang was separated into its own township. In 1967, it became a district of Taipei.
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