Taiwan Solo Female Travel Safety Tips and Advice

On this page you will find first-hand, unbiased, and real safety tips, advice and reviews from women traveling solo, submitted directly from their personal experiences in the country.

Their opinions are unfiltered and submitted independently as part of the Solo Female Travel Safety Index, a ranking of 210 countries and regions based on how safe they are for women traveling solo.

The safety scores range from 1 to 4 with 1 being the safest and 4 being the most dangerous for solo female travelers.

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Taiwan Country data

We have compiled a few data points below that can help you better understand Taiwan and have more context when thinking about travel safety.

Official country name: Taiwan.

Etymology: "Tayowan" was the name of the coastal sandbank where the Dutch erected their colonial headquarters on the island in the 17th century; the former name "Formosa" means "beautiful" in Portuguese.

Capital: Taipei.

Independence / foundation: First inhabited by Austronesian people, Taiwan became home to Han immigrants beginning in the late Ming Dynasty (17th century). In 1895, military defeat forced China's Qing Dynasty to cede Taiwan to Japan, which then governed Taiwan for 50 years.

Taiwan came under Chinese Nationalist (Kuomintang, KMT) control after World War II. With the communist victory in the Chinese civil war in 1949, the Nationalist-controlled Republic of China government and 2 million Nationalists fled to Taiwan and continued to claim to be the legitimate government for mainland China and Taiwan based on a 1947 Constitution drawn up for all of China.

Population: 24 million.

Currency: Taiwan New Dollar (TWD)
1 USD = 31.13 - 31.38 TWD
1 EUR = 34.30 - 34.85 TWD

Time zone: UTC+8

Languages spoken: Mandarin (official), Taiwanese (Min Nan), Hakka dialects, approximately 16 indigenous languages.

Religions: Buddhist 35%, Taoist 33%, Christian 4%, folk religion (includes Confucian) approximately 11%, none or unspecified 18%.

Climate: Tropical and marine. There is a rainy season during the southwest monsoon from June to Augustand a persistent and extensive cloudiness all year.

Real GDP (ppp – purchasing power parity): $1.1 trillion.

Real GDP per capita (ppp): $47,800.

Main airports: Taiwan Taoyuan International Airport, Kaohsiung International Airport.

World heritage sites in Taiwan

There are over 1,100 world heritage sites spread across more than 165 countries. New ones are added every year, and some may be removed from the list for various reasons.

Number of UNESCO listed sites: 0.

Top world heritage sites:

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Interesting facts about Taiwan

- Taiwan is so small that you can drive around the whole island in about 8 hours.

- Garbage trucks play music quite loud and run through the town very slowly, so people can hear the music and come out to throw their trash into the trucks.

- Taiwan has the second fastest lift in the world. It's located in Taipei 101, Taiwan’s iconic tower, and travels at a high speed of 1,010 meters per minute.

Further reading: https://gmba.nycu.edu.tw/en/student-blog/fun-facts-about-taiwan/

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About the Solo Female Travel Safety Index

Safety matters to solo female travelers, you told us so in our annual Solo Female Travel Survey, where year after year, women prove that this is their most important concern when traveling solo.

We wanted to do something about it, so we built these country-specific pages where you can find reviews and scores for 7 key variables affecting the safety of women traveling solo.

How to use the Safety Index

On this page, you will find the country score and the personal opinions on safety of other women traveling solo.

You can sort the comments by:

• The level of experience traveling solo of the reviewer (beginner = <5 trips solo, Intermediate = 5 to 10 trips solo, Experienced = >10 trips solo).
• The age of the traveler.
• Whether they are a visitor or local.
• The date they were posted.

The safety scores range from 1 to 4 with 1 being the safest and 4 being the most dangerous for solo female travelers. 

Thus, the lower the score, the safer the country.

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