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Tai⋅bei

[tahy-bey]
–noun Pinyin.
Taipei.

Tai⋅pei

[tahy-pey; Chin. tahy-bey]
–noun Wade-Giles.
a city in and the capital of Taiwan, in the N part. 2,100,000.
Also, Taibei; Older Spelling, Taipeh.
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Taipei [(teye-pay, teye-bay)]

Capital of Taiwan and largest city in the country, located in northern Taiwan.

Note: In 1949, Taipei became the headquarters of Chiang Kai-shek's Chinese Nationalists, who had been forced to flee mainland China.
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