Tainan, Taiwan

Tainan, Taiwan is a submarine cable landing point in Taiwan (coordinates 22.9972°, 120.1809°). It serves 1 submarine cable system, making it a single-cable landing in Taiwan's international connectivity infrastructure.

Tainan, officially Tainan City, is a special municipality in southern Taiwan, facing the Taiwan Strait on its western coast. Tainan is the oldest city on the island and commonly called the "prefectural capital" for its 263-year history as the capital of Taiwan under Dutch rule, the Kingdom of Tungning and later Qing dynasty rule until 1887. Tainan's complex history of comebacks, redefinitions and renewals inspired its popular nickname "the Phoenix City". Tainan was classified as a "Sufficiency"-level global city by the Globalization and World Cities Research Network in 2020, but no longer be classfied in 2022, 2024. Wikipedia

Connected submarine cables

Connectivity profile

From Tainan, Taiwan, international traffic can reach 1 countries through 1 cable system. Destinations include Taiwan. This location depends on a single cable system — a characteristic that makes it strategically sensitive to physical disruptions.

Monitoring status

No monitoring incidents were recorded on cables serving Tainan, Taiwan in the past 90 days — all connected systems remained within normal latency thresholds. Our monitoring network continuously samples latency from external probes to targets reachable via these cables.

About the cables

• Taiwan Penghu Kinmen Matsu No.3 (TPKM3) (2013) — Taiwan Penghu Kinmen Matsu No.3 (TPKM3) is a domestic submarine cable system within Taiwan, linking 10 landing points including Beigan, Taiwan, Dongyin, Taiwan, Huxi Township, Taiwan, Jincheng Township, Taiwan and others. It strengthens domestic network resilience in Taiwan by providing submarine connectivity between coastal and island communities. Read more →

Submarine cable data from TeleGeography. Geographic context from Wikipedia. Monitoring metrics updated continuously by GeoCables.