Truro was named in 2006 as the top small city in the United Kingdom for increasing house prices, at 262% since 1996. There is a large demand for new housing in the city, and a call for inner city properties to be converted into flats or houses to encourage city centre living and to alleviate the dependence on cars.ruro was named in 2006 as the top small city in the United Kingdom for increasing house prices, at 262% since 1996. There is a large demand for new housing in the city, and a call for inner city properties to be converted into flats or houses to encourage city centre living and to alleviate the dependence on cars.
Together with the city of Keelung, they make up the Taipei Metropolitan Area, which has a total population of 7,046,811. Other major cities in Taiwan are Kaohsiung City (pop 2,778,918), Taichung City (pop 2,752,413) and Tainan City (pop 1,885,252). No other Taiwanese city has a population of more than 500,000 people.
Taishan also called Toishan (Chinese: å°å±±; pinyin: TaishÄn; TÃ¡ishÄn: jyutping toi4; Saan1: Taishanese [hoisan]) hÉÌisÄn is a coastal-county level city in Southern guangdong province in The'people S republic Of. chinahat war closed in on Taicheng, the capital of Taishan, in March 1941 when Japanese soldiers entered the township and killed nearly 280 people. On 17 April 1992, Taishan's status was upgraded from county (å¿) to county-level city (å¿çº§å¸).