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Geography of Taiwan. Taiwan is mostly mountainous in the east, with gently sloping plains in the west. The Penghu Islands appear in the Taiwan Strait to the west of the main island. Taiwan, officially the Republic of China (ROC), is an island country in East Asia. The island of Taiwan, formerly known as Formosa, makes up 99% of the land area of ...
Taiwan actually operates under various names as a result of its contested statehood: it refers to itself officially as the Republic of China (or ROC), invoking the state which governed the mainland until the Chinese Civil War and takeover of power by the Communist Party of China in 1949, and today’s mainland China (officially the People’s Republic of China, or PRC) calls it Chinese Taipei, but internationally it is most commonly called Taiwan (the name of the state’s largest island).
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Taiwan Details. Taiwan. jpg [417 kB, 526 x 700] Taiwan map showing major cities of this island in the Western Pacific Ocean. Usage.
Neighbors: New Taipei. Categories: capital city, special municipality, big city, Capital of Republic of China (Taiwan), enclave and locality. Location: Northern Taiwan, Taiwan, East Asia, Asia. View on OpenStreetMap. Latitude. 25.0287° or 25° 1' 43" north. Longitude. 121.4956° or 121° 29' 44" east.
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