A place to build a dream on Taitung, with an area of 3500 square kilometers, has a population of only 240,000, for an average of 70 or so per square kilometer. That's not very many compared to more than 9700 in Taipei.
面積三千五百多平方公里的台東，人口只有二十四萬多人，平均每平方公里只有七十人，和台北市的九千七百多人相較，顯得非常稀疏。