Table 3.
Numbers of institutions and their practicing dentists in different levels of hospitals, dentists in clinics, and overall dentists in different regions of Taiwan by city and county in October 2019.
| Region of Taiwan | City or countya | Medical center |
Regional hospital |
District hospital |
Total hospitals |
Clinic dentists | Overall dentists | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Institutions | Dentists | Institutions | Dentists | Institutions | Dentists | Institutions | Dentists | ||||
| Northern | |||||||||||
| Taipei City | 9 | 550 | 11 | 159 | 10 | 19 | 30 | 728 | 2576 | 3304 | |
| New Taipei City | 2 | 51 | 7 | 132 | 4 | 15 | 13 | 198 | 2399 | 2597 | |
| Keeling City | 0 | 0 | 2 | 18 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 22 | 162 | 184 | |
| Taoyuan City | 1 | 80 | 7 | 39 | 5 | 43 | 13 | 162 | 1016 | 1178 | |
| Hsinchu City | 0 | 0 | 2 | 32 | 4 | 14 | 6 | 46 | 276 | 322 | |
| Hsinchu County | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 4 | 6 | 238 | 244 | |
| Central | |||||||||||
| Miaoli County | 0 | 0 | 2 | 7 | 1 | 5 | 3 | 12 | 163 | 175 | |
| Taichung City | 4 | 142 | 9 | 57 | 6 | 10 | 19 | 209 | 1738 | 1947 | |
| Changhua County | 2 | 54 | 3 | 48 | 6 | 20 | 11 | 122 | 452 | 574 | |
| Nantou County | 0 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 4 | 24 | 5 | 27 | 134 | 161 | |
| Yunlin County | 0 | 0 | 4 | 13 | 2 | 3 | 6 | 16 | 159 | 175 | |
| Southern | |||||||||||
| Chiayi City | 0 | 0 | 3 | 40 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 41 | 188 | 229 | |
| Chiayi County | 0 | 0 | 2 | 19 | 1 | 3 | 3 | 22 | 82 | 104 | |
| Tainan City | 2 | 123 | 6 | 66 | 3 | 12 | 11 | 201 | 926 | 1127 | |
| Kaohsiung City | 3 | 191 | 7 | 74 | 11 | 36 | 21 | 301 | 1535 | 1836 | |
| Pingtung County | 0 | 0 | 4 | 15 | 3 | 4 | 7 | 19 | 193 | 212 | |
| Penghu County | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 35 | 36 | |
| Eastern | |||||||||||
| Yilan County | 0 | 0 | 3 | 32 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 33 | 150 | 183 | |
| Hualien County | 1 | 22 | 2 | 11 | 5 | 5 | 8 | 38 | 109 | 147 | |
| Taitung County | 0 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 4 | 6 | 59 | 65 | |
| Offshore islands | |||||||||||
| Kinmen County | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 19 | 19 | |
| Lienchiang County | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 3 | 3 | 6 | |
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There are six municipalities in Taiwan: Taipei City, New Taipei City, Taoyuan City, Taichung City, Tainan City, and Kaohsiung City.