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Keelung (基隆 Pinyin : Jīlóng, Wade-Giles : Chi-lung) is a county-level city of Taiwan Province , Republic of China . Located in the northeastern of the island and bordering Taipei County , it is Taiwan 's second largest seaport (after Kaohsiung ). Keelung is nicknamed "The Rainy Port" (雨港).
History
Keelung was first inhabited by the Ketagalan , a tribe of Taiwanese aborigine .
Rooster Cage" (雞籠), named after a local mountain of such a shape. Another theory suggests that the characters were transcription of a Ketagalan placename. The characters were changed in 1875 (Qing Dynasty ) to mean "The Base that Prospers".
Japanese Occupation. Keelung became a town in Keelung District, Taipei Prefecture in 1920 and was upgraded to a city of Taipei Prefecture in 1924. Coal mining peaked in 1968.
Administration Keelung administers seven districts :
Hanzi Tongyong Wade-Giles Pinyin 中正區 Jhongjhen Chung-chen Zhongzhen 中山區 Jhongshan Chung-shan Zhongshan 仁愛區 Ren-ai Jen-ai Ren’ai 信義區 Sinyi Hsin-yi Xinyi 安樂區 Anle An-le Anle 暖暖區 Nuannuan Nuan-nuan Nuannuan 七堵區 Cidu Ch'i-tu Qidu
Population
Keelong Harbour in the morning/ taken by timo/ 2004
700 households (1840) 9,500 (1897) 58,000 (1924) 100,000 (1943) 92,000 (1944): decrease due to Allied air bombings 130,000 (1948): 28,000 Mainlander influx 330,000 (1971) 347,828 (late 1990s)
External links Harbor Bureau (http://www.klhb.gov.tw/e_index.html ) (bilingual) Official site (http://www.klcg.gov.tw ) (in Traditional Chinese )
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