Editing Taipei (section)

===Post-WW2 under ROC===
[[File:Taipei_2012_3_amk.jpg|thumb|left|upright|[[Taipei 101]] is a landmark and tourist attraction in Taipei.]]
[[File:Chiang Kai-shek memorial amk.jpg|thumb|200px|The [[National Chiang Kai-shek Memorial Hall]] is a national monument, landmark, and tourist attraction in Taipei.]]
[[File:美國總統艾森豪於1960年6月訪問臺灣台北時與蔣中正總統-2.jpg|thumb|With President [[Chiang Kai-shek]], U.S. President [[Dwight D. Eisenhower]] waved to a crowd during his visit to Taipei in June 1960.]]

Upon the Japanese defeat following the nuclear bomb destruction of [[Hiroshima]] and [[Nagasaki]], and its consequent surrender in August 1945, the [[Kuomintang]] (Chinese Nationalist Party) [[Retrocession of Taiwan|assumed control]] of Taiwan. Subsequently, Taipei was established as a [[Provincial city (Taiwan)|provincial city]] and a temporary Office of the [[Taiwan Province]] Administrative Governor was established in it.{{sfnp|Marsh|1996|p=85}} In 1947 the [[Kuomintang]] (KMT) government under [[Chiang Kai-shek]] declared island-wide [[martial law in Taiwan]] as a result of the [[28 February Incident]], which began with incidents in Taipei but led to an island-wide crackdown on the local population by forces loyal to Chiang. Two years later, on 7 December 1949, Chiang and the Kuomintang forces were forced to flee mainland China after the defeat by Communist revolutionaries. The KMT-led national government that fled to Taiwan declared Taipei to be the provisional capital of a continuing Republic of China.<ref name="ng">{{cite book |last=Ng |first=Franklin |title=The Taiwanese Americans |publisher=Greenwood Publishing Group |year=1998 |page=10 |isbn=0-313-29762-2}}</ref><ref name="bbctimeline-retreat">{{cite news |url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/static/in_depth/asia_pacific/2000/taiwan_elections2000/1949_1955.stm |title=Taiwan Timeline – Retreat to Taiwan |year=2000 |work=BBC News |access-date=13 July 2009 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090624190413/http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/static/in_depth/asia_pacific/2000/taiwan_elections2000/1949_1955.stm |archive-date=24 June 2009 |url-status=live}} Taipei has never been declared the official capital but Kuomintang loyalists today generally regard it as such. In 2004 elementary textbook references stating "Nanjing is the capital of the Republic of China" were replaced with "Taipei is the location of the central government of the Republic of China."</ref>

Taipei [[Military dependents' village|expanded greatly]] in the decades after 1949, and as approved on 30 December 1966, by the [[Executive Yuan]], Taipei was declared a [[special municipality (Taiwan)|special municipality]] on 1 July 1967.<ref name="tcghistory" /> In the following year, Taipei City expanded again by annexing [[Shilin District|Shilin]], [[Beitou District|Beitou]], [[Neihu District|Neihu]], [[Nangang District, Taipei|Nangang]], [[Jingmei]], and [[Muzha District|Muzha]]. At that time, the city's total area increased fourfold by absorbing several outlying towns and villages and the population increased to 1.56 million people.<ref name="tcghistory" />

The city's population, which had reached one million in the early 1960s, also expanded rapidly after 1967, exceeding two million by the mid-1970s. Although growth within the city itself gradually slowed thereafter{{sfnp|Marsh|1996|p=85}} — its population had become relatively stable by the mid-1990s – Taipei remained one of the world's most densely populated urban areas, and the population continued to increase in the region surrounding the city, notably along the corridor between Taipei and [[Keelung]].{{Original research inline|date=March 2023}}

In 1990, Taipei's 16 districts were consolidated into the current 12 districts.<ref name="yearbook">{{cite book |title=Republic of China Yearbook |publisher=Kwang Hwa Publishing Co. |year=2002 |page=120 |isbn=957-9227-35-7}}</ref> [[Wild Lily student movement|Mass democracy rallies]] that year in the [[Liberty Square (Taipei)|plaza]] around Chiang Kai-shek Memorial Hall led to an island-wide transition to multi-party [[democracy]], where legislators are chosen via regularly scheduled popular elections, during the presidency of [[Lee Teng-Hui]].{{Original research inline|date=March 2023}}