Sports
Kaohsiung has Southern Taiwan region's most comprehensive sports facilities, as well as the country's largest stadium.Kaohsiung National Stadium( the Main Stadium of 2009 World Games) and Kaohsiung Arena as the representative of sports facilities in Kaohsiung. National Stadium is Taiwan's largest international-class stadium, Maximum capacity is 55,000 seats.
Kaohsiung hosted the 2009 World Games, Nearly 6,000 athletes, officials, coaches, referees and others from 103 countries participated in the 2009 Kaohsiung World Games. Kaohsiung in 2007, 2009 and 2011 for three consecutive years, the number of gold medals and total medals of the National Games were the first place in the country.
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