(1999 pop. 760,000). Located on the coastal edge of the fertile Jianan Plateau, Tainan is the oldest Chinese settlement on Taiwan and the island's fourth largest city. Until the late nineteenth century, Tainan served as the political, cultural,...

Tainan City (traditional Chinese: 臺南; Hanyu Pinyin: Táinán; Wade-Giles: T'ai-nan; Pe̍h-ōe-jī: Tâi-lâm; literally "Southern Taiwan") is the fourth largest city in Taiwan after Taipei, Kaohsiung, and Taichung. It is officially administrated as...