New Taipei

English

Etymology

c. 2008, calque of Chinese 新北 (Xīnběi) as New +‎ Taipei, officially adopted in 2010.

Proper noun

New Taipei

1. A special municipality in northern Taiwan
   • 2014 September 12, “Deadly New Taipei blaze: arson suspected”, in Focus Taiwan‎^[2], archived from the original on 03 October 2022, Society‎^[3]:

     Arson has not been ruled out in a fire that broke out Friday in Yungho, New Taipei, causing one death and 24 injuries, the city's fire department said that day.

   • 2018 November 24, Tzu-ti Huang, “Taiwan elections: KMT candidate wins race for New Taipei mayor”, in Taiwan News‎^[4], archived from the original on 24 November 2018:

     In what has been seen as a fiercely contested match, Hou faced stiff competition from Su, a veteran politician in Taiwan, who proved his mettle governing at the local level as the magistrate of Taipei County for two terms between 1997 and 2004. Taipei County was upgraded to the status as a special municipality in 2010 and renamed New Taipei.

   • 2019, International Housing Market Experience and Implications for China (Routledge Studies in International Real Estate)‎^[5], →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC:

     Housing prices have started to fall by about 5-10% since the beginning of 2015, and the house price-to-income ratios in Taipei and New Taipei are 14.9 and 12.43, respectively.

   • 2020, “Taipei records hottest June day in 124 years”, in huaxia, editor, Xinhua News Agency‎^[6], archived from the original on 06 January 2021:

     The mercury soared past 36 degrees Celsius at midday in the cities of New Taipei, Taichung and Kaohsiung, as well as the counties of Hsinchu and Changhua.

   • 2022 September 4, Huizhong Wu, “Military reserves, civil defense worry Taiwan as China looms”, in AP News‎^[7], archived from the original on 05 September 2022‎^[8]:

     In July, the New Taipei city government organized a large-scale drill with its disaster services and the Defense Ministry. Included for the first time was urban warfare, such as how first responders would react to an attack on a train station or a port.

   • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:New Taipei.

Synonyms

• New Taipei City
• (historical) Taipei (County)
• Xinbei

Translations

special municipality in northern Taiwan

• Afrikaans: Nieu-Taipei
• Chinese:

  Hakka: 新北 (Sîn-pet)

  Hokkien: 新北 (Sin-pak)

  Mandarin: 新北 (zh) (Xīnběi)

• French: Nouveau Taipei f
• German: Neu-Taipeh n
• Indonesian: Taipei Baru
• Japanese: 新北 (しんほく, Shinhoku)
• Korean: 신베이시 (sinbeisi)
• Vietnamese: Tân Bắc (新北)

Further reading

• New Taipei at Google Ngram Viewer