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Taipei City

This is Taipei City center.

On the card, you can see "Taipei 1-0-1" skyscraper. It is the tallest skyscraper in the world, 508 meters. 1-0-1 has also the fastest elevators in the world. They take people to the observatory deck in about 35 sec. It is called 1-0-1 for some reasons, 101% perfection – 1 percent above perfection, 101 is a binary code symbolizing Taiwan's technology, and Taipei 1-0-1 has 101 stories.

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