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Taipei
Taipei is the capital and largest city of Taiwan, in the Taipei Basin in the north of the island. It grew in the 18th and 19th centuries from Han Chinese settlements and was walled by the Qing in the 1880s. Under Japanese rule from 1895 to 1945 it was the colonial capital, Taihoku, and since 1949 it has been the seat of the government of the Republic of China.
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