Taipei 101 Taiwan

The 101 storey building, which has a height of 508m, is designed to withstand the typhooon winds and earthquake tremors common in its area of the Asia Pacific.Taipei, officially known as Taipei City is the capital of the democratic industrialized island nation officially known as the Republic of China (Taiwan). Situated at the northern tip of the country, Taipei is located on the Tamsui River; it is about 25 km (16 mi) southwest of Keelung, a port city on the Pacific Ocean. It lies in the Taipei Basin, an ancient lakebed bounded by the two relatively narrow valleys of the Keelung and Xindian rivers, which join to form the Tamsui River along the citys western border. The city proper is home to an estimated 2,618,772 people. Taipei, New Taipei, and Keelung together form the Taipei Keelung metropolitan area with a population of 6,900,273. They are administered under three municipal governing bodies. Taipei sometimes refers to the whole metropolitan area, while Taipei City refers to the city proper. Taipei City proper is surrounded on all sides by New Taipei.