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Taipei Nangang Exhibition Center metro station

metro station in Taipei, Taiwan

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionAug 30, 2026
Entity authorityQ699465 ↗
Source-derived summary

Taipei Nangang Exhibition Center station (Chinese: 南港展覽館站; pinyin: Nángǎng zhǎnlǎnguǎn zhàn) is a metro station in Taipei, Taiwan served by Taipei Metro. It is a terminal station on both Wenhu line and Bannan line, and serves the Nangang, Neihu, and Xizhi districts.

Station overview

This is a three-level station, divided into an elevated and underground portion, each serving different lines. The elevated portion of the station serving the medium-capacity Wenhu line features an island platform and a platform elevator located on the west side of the concourse level. The station is 125 m (410 ft) long and 26 m (85 ft) wide, while the elevated platform is 93 m (305 ft) long. It is equipped with platform screen doors.

The station is a two-level, underground station high-capacity, and is also equipped with platform screen doors. It has an island platform and is 128 m (420 ft) long and 18.5 m (61 ft) meters wide. The station (serving the Blue Line eastern extension) passes through tunnels belonging to the Taiwan Railways Administration and Taiwan High Speed Rail before terminating at this station. The station is expected to serve as a transfer station for around 200,000 commuters per month.

Editorial summary

Begin with the source’s own compact description: “Taipei Nangang Exhibition Center metro station” is metro station in Taipei, Taiwan. The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through Taipei, Nangang and Exhibition, not as a finished interpretation.

Editorial reviewMost useful as a place-based finding aid connecting the present description to earlier jurisdictions, maps and built evidence. The current 197-word lead offers orientation but no explicit four-digit date, so chronology should not be assumed. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 2009. For this dossier, Taipei, Nangang and Exhibition is the immediate research focus.
Editorial analysis

Why this record matters

The phrase “metro station in Taipei, Taiwan” supplies a clear boundary for inquiry. It also exposes the unanswered questions: who defined that boundary, when it became stable and which sources sit outside it.

Evidence profile

The strongest evidence will usually combine a dated visual record with documents produced by the authority responsible for the place. The source revision retrieved here is dated Aug 30, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q699465. Authority coordinates are 25.055, 121.618. 2 of 2 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank.

Critical limits

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How to read it

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This entry incorporates text from “Taipei Nangang Exhibition Center metro station” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.