Keelung

Keelung 基隆市 Kīrun, Ke-lung, Chilung
City
Keelung City
Top: skyline of downtown Keelung Second left: Dawulun Fort Second right: night view of downtown Keelung Third left: Zhengbin Fishing Port Colorful House Third right: Keelung Maritime Plaza and Keelung Main Station Bottom left: Keelung Outer Harbor and Keelung Islet Bottom right: Heping Island Park
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Nickname:  The Rainy Port (雨港)
Location in Taiwan
Coordinates: 25°08′N 121°44′E / 25.133°N 121.733°E / 25.133; 121.733
Country	Republic of China (Taiwan)
Province	Taiwan Province (streamlined)
Region	Northern Taiwan
Districts	7[1]
Founded as La Santisima Trinidad	1626
Part of Taihoku Prefecture	17 April 1895
Provincial city status	11 November 1945
City seat	Zhongzheng District
Government
• Body	Keelung City Government Keelung City Council
• Mayor	George Hsieh (KMT)
Area
• Total	132.7589 km2 (51.2585 sq mi)
• Rank	18 of 22
Population  (October 2023)[2]
• Total	362,487
• Rank	16 of 22
• Density	2,700/km2 (7,100/sq mi)
Time zone	UTC+8 (National Standard Time)
Postal code	200–206
Area code	(0)32
ISO 3166 code	TW-KEE
– Bird	Eagle
– Flower	Common crepe myrtle
– Tree	Formosan Sweet-gum
English	Keelung/KLC
Chinese	基隆/基市
Website	www.klcg.gov.tw/en/Default/Index

Keelung (/kiːˈlʊŋ/ kee-LUUNG;^[3] Taiwanese: Ke-lâng), Chilung or Jilong (/dʒiːˈlʊŋ/ jee-LUUNG;^[3] pinyin: Jīlóng), officially known as Keelung City, is a major port city situated in the northeastern part of Taiwan. With 361,082 inhabitants, the city forms a part of the Taipei–Keelung metropolitan area with its neighboring New Taipei City and Taipei.

Before the city was founded by the Spanish Empire in 1626, then called La Santisima Trinidad, present-day Keelung was inhabited by Taiwanese indigenous peoples and was part of Spanish and Dutch colonial rule before being subsumed into the Qing dynasty in 1683 as part of Fujian. The city became a flashpoint of the First Opium War and the Keelung Campaign in the Sino-French War between the Qing and the French Third Republic.^[4] After Taiwan was detached from Fujian in 1887, the city became part of the Empire of Japan in 1895 following the First Sino-Japanese War. During the Japanese era, the city was known as Kirun first as a town of Taihoku Prefecture, then became a district in 1920 and finally a city in 1924.

After World War II in 1945, the Republic of China, which overthrew the Qing empire, reestablished Keelung as a provincial city of Taiwan Province, which would later become streamlined from 1998. Nicknamed the Rainy Port for its frequent rain and maritime role, the city is Taiwan's second largest seaport (after Kaohsiung) and the 7th largest in the world by 1984.