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Taiwan, officially the Republic of China (ROC), is a country in East Asia. It is located at the junction of the East and South China Seas in the northwestern Pacific Ocean, with the People's Republic of China (PRC) to the northwest, Japan to the northeast, and the Philippines to the south. The territories controlled by the ROC … See more
Name of the island
In his Daoyi Zhilüe (1349), Wang Dayuan used "Liuqiu" as a name for the island, or the part of it closest to Penghu. Elsewhere, the name was used for the Ryukyu Islands in general or See moreThe land controlled by the ROC consists of 168 islands with a combined area of 36,193 square kilometres (13,974 sq mi). The main island, known historically as Formosa, makes up … See more
Government
The government of the Republic of China was founded on the 1947 Constitution of the ROC See moreThe quick industrialization and rapid growth of Taiwan during the latter half of the 20th century has been called the "Taiwan Miracle". … See more
Pre-colonial period
Taiwan was joined to the Asian mainland in the Late Pleistocene, until sea levels rose about 10,000 years ago. Human remains and See moreThe political and legal statuses of Taiwan are contentious issues. The People's Republic of China (PRC) claims that Taiwan is Chinese … See more
The Republic of China Armed Forces takes its roots in the National Revolutionary Army, which was established by Sun Yat-sen in 1924 in Guangdong with … See more
Wikipedia text under CC-BY-SA license WEBTâi-oân le̍k-sú. The history of the island of Taiwan dates back tens of thousands of years to the earliest known evidence of human habitation. …
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