Taiwan
Names and codes: GeoNames, CC BY 4.0 · Refresh date not recorded · Sources and licenses
Codes and identifiers
- ISO alpha-2
- TW
- ISO alpha-3
- TWN
- ISO numeric
- 158
- FIPS 10-4
- TW
- GeoNames ID
- 1668284
Key facts
- Capital
- Taipei
- Area
- 35,980 km²
- Population
- 23,451,837
- Currency
- Dollar (TWD)
- Calling code
- +886
- Top-level domain
- .tw
- Official languages
- zh-TW,zh,nan,hak
Continent
- Name
- Asia
- Code
- AS
- In this dataset
- 51 countries
Location
- Latitude
- 24
- Longitude
- 121
The API call behind this page
Request
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" \
"https://geosearch.dev/v1/countries/TW?fields=iso_code,iso3_code,name,capital,population,area_sq_km,currency_code,continent_code"Response
{
"data": {
"area_sq_km": 35980,
"capital": "Taipei",
"continent_code": "AS",
"currency_code": "TWD",
"iso3_code": "TWN",
"iso_code": "TW",
"name": "Taiwan",
"population": 23451837
}
}Formatted for reading. The API returns the same JSON on one line.
Other endpoints for this country
/v1/countries/TW/regions/v1/cities?country=TW/v1/postal-codes?country=TW/v1/timezones?country=TW
Name in other languages
- Arabic
- تايوان
- Chinese
- 台湾
- English
- Taiwan
- French
- Taïwan
- German
- Taiwan
- Hindi
- ताइवान
- Italian
- Taiwan
- Japanese
- 台湾
- Korean
- 대만
- Portuguese
- Taiwan
- Russian
- Тайвань
- Spanish
- Taiwán
- Total language variants
- 200
The API returns any of them with ?lang=.
Time zones
| IANA ID | UTC offset | DST offset |
|---|---|---|
| Asia/Taipei | UTC+08:00 | UTC+08:00 |
Postal code format
- Format
- #####
- Pattern
^(\d{5})$
First-level administrative regions
- Taiwan
- Kaohsiung
- Taipei
- Fukien
4 of 4 shown, largest first
Largest cities
| City | Population |
|---|---|
| Taipei | 7,871,900 |
| New Taipei City | 4,004,367 |
| Taichung | 2,850,285 |
| Kaohsiung | 2,737,660 |
| Tainan | 1,856,642 |
| Banqiao | 551,221 |
| Taoyuan | 475,798 |
| Hsinchu | 453,536 |
| Keelung | 362,487 |
| Fengshan | 356,463 |
Coverage in this dataset
- Cities
- 16,102
- First-level regions
- 4
- Postal codes
- 0
- Name languages
- 200
- Boundary polygon
- Not in this dataset
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