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Administrative divisions of Taiwan

Index Administrative divisions of Taiwan

Taiwan consists of provinces and special municipalities. [1]

80 relations: Changhua County, Chiayi, Chiayi County, Chinese characters, Chinese Civil War, Chinese postal romanization, County (Taiwan), County-controlled city, De facto, Democratic Progressive Party, District (Taiwan), Empire of Japan, Executive Yuan, Federal districts of Russia, Free area of the Republic of China, Fujian Province, Republic of China, Fujian Provincial Government, Fuzhou, Geography of Taiwan, Government of the Republic of China, Government Office, History of Taiwan, History of the administrative divisions of China (1912–49), History of the Republic of China, Hsinchu, Hsinchu County, Hualien County, ISO 3166-2:TW, Jincheng, Kinmen, Kaohsiung, Kaohsiung County, Keelung, Kinmen, Kuomintang, List of islands of Taiwan, Lukang, Changhua, Ma Ying-jeou, Mainland China, Matsu Islands, Miaoli County, Nantou County, New Taipei City, Pe̍h-ōe-jī, Penghu, Pingtung County, Pinyin, Political divisions of Taiwan (1895–1945), Political status of Taiwan, Pratas Islands, Provincial city (Taiwan), ..., Regions of England, Republic of China (1912–1949), Romanization, South China Sea Islands, Spatial planning, Special municipality (Taiwan), Taichung, Taichung County, Tainan, Tainan County, Taipei, Taiping Island, Taitung County, Taiwan, Taiwan Province, Taiwan Provincial Government, Taiwan under Japanese rule, Taiwanese indigenous peoples, Tamsui District, Taoyuan, Taiwan, Tongyong Pinyin, Toponymy, Township (Taiwan), Village (Taiwan), Wade–Giles, World War II, Wuqiu, Kinmen, Yilan County, Taiwan, Yunlin County, Zhongxing New Village. Expand index (30 more) »

Changhua County

Changhua County is the smallest county on the main island of Taiwan by area, and the fourth smallest in the country.

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Chiayi

Chiayi, officially known as Chiayi City and sometimes as Chia-I, is a provincial city located in the plains of southwestern Taiwan.

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Chiayi County

Chiayi County is a county in southwestern Taiwan surrounding but not including Chiayi City.

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Chinese characters

Chinese characters are logograms primarily used in the writing of Chinese and Japanese.

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Chinese Civil War

The Chinese Civil War was a war fought between the Kuomintang (KMT)-led government of the Republic of China and the Communist Party of China (CPC).

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Chinese postal romanization

Postal romanization was a system of transliterating Chinese place names developed by the Imperial Post Office in the early 1900s.

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County (Taiwan)

A county is an administrative division unit in Taiwan.

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County-controlled city

A county-controlled city, or county-administered city, is a unit of administrative division in Taiwan. Under the administrative structure of Taiwan, it is with the same level of a township or a district. Such cities are administrated by counties. It is also the lowest-level city of Taiwan, below a provincial city and a special municipality. There are 14 county-controlled cities currently.

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De facto

In law and government, de facto (or;, "in fact") describes practices that exist in reality, even if not legally recognised by official laws.

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Democratic Progressive Party

The Democratic Progressive Party (DPP), also known as Minjindang (MJD) is a liberal political party in the Taiwan and the dominant party in the Pan-Green Coalition as it is currently the majority ruling party, controlling both the presidency and the unicameral Legislative Yuan.

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District (Taiwan)

Districts are administrative subdivisions of Special municipalities and provincial cities of Taiwan.

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Empire of Japan

The was the historical nation-state and great power that existed from the Meiji Restoration in 1868 to the enactment of the 1947 constitution of modern Japan.

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Executive Yuan

The Executive Yuan is the executive branch of the government of the Republic of China on Taiwan.

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Federal districts of Russia

The federal districts (федера́льные округа́, federalnyye okruga) are groupings of the federal subjects of Russia.

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Free area of the Republic of China

The Free area of the Republic of China is a term used by the government of the Republic of China (ROC) to refer to the territories under its actual control.

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Fujian Province, Republic of China

Fujian, formerly romanized as Fukien or Fuchien (see other names below), is a streamlined province of the Republic of China (ROC).

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Fujian Provincial Government

The Fujian Provincial Government (FKPG) is the government that governs Fujian Province of the Republic of China.

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Fuzhou

Fuzhou, formerly romanized as Foochow, is the capital and one of the largest cities in Fujian province, China.

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Geography of Taiwan

Taiwan, formerly known as Formosa, is an island in East Asia; located some off the southeastern coast of mainland China across the Taiwan Strait.

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Government of the Republic of China

The Government of the Republic of China was formally established in 1912 in Nanking, with Sun Yat-sen as President of the Provisional Government of the Republic of China under the Provisional Constitution of the Republic of China.

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Government Office

Government Offices for the English Regions (GOs) were established in 1994 by the John Major administration.

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History of Taiwan

The history of Taiwan dates back tens of thousands of years to the earliest known evidence of human habitation on the island.

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History of the administrative divisions of China (1912–49)

The history of the administrative divisions of China between 1912 and 1949 refers to the administrative divisions under the Republic of China government control.

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History of the Republic of China

The History of the Republic of China begins after the Qing dynasty in 1912, when the formation of the Republic of China as a constitutional republic put an end to 4,000 years of Imperial rule.

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Hsinchu

Hsinchu officially known as Hsinchu City, is a provincial city in northern Taiwan.

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Hsinchu County

Hsinchu County is a county in north-western Taiwan.

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Hualien County

Hualien County has the largest area of all counties in Taiwan, and is located on the island's mountainous eastern coast.

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ISO 3166-2:TW

ISO 3166-2:TW is the entry for Taiwan in ISO 3166-2, part of the ISO 3166 standard published by the International Organization for Standardization (ISO), which defines codes for the names of the principal subdivisions (e.g., provinces or states) of all countries coded in ISO 3166-1.

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Jincheng, Kinmen

Jincheng Township is an urban township on the southwestern corner of the island of Kinmen (Quemoy).

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Kaohsiung

Kaohsiung City (Hokkien POJ: Ko-hiông; Hakka: Kô-hiùng; old names: Takao, Takow, Takau) is a special municipality located in southern-western Taiwan and facing the Taiwan Strait.

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Kaohsiung County

Kaohsiung County was a county in southern Taiwan between 1945 and 2010.

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Keelung

Keelung, officially known as Keelung City, is a major port city situated in the northeastern part of Taiwan.

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Kinmen

Kinmen or Quemoy (see also "Names" section below), officially Kinmen County, is a group of islands, governed by the Republic of China (ROC), which is located just off the southeastern coast of mainland China, including Great Kinmen, Lesser Kinmen, Wuqiu and several surrounding islets.

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Kuomintang

The Kuomintang of China (KMT; often translated as the Nationalist Party of China) is a major political party in the Republic of China on Taiwan, based in Taipei and is currently the opposition political party in the Legislative Yuan.

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List of islands of Taiwan

This is a list of islands of Taiwan, officially the Republic of China (ROC), classified into various island groups.

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Lukang, Changhua

Lukang or Lugang, is an urban township in northwestern Changhua County, Taiwan.

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Ma Ying-jeou

Ma Ying-jeou (born 13 July 1950), also spelled as Ma Yingjiu, is a Hong Kong-born Taipei-based politician who served as the eighteenth President of the Republic of China from 2008 to 2016 as well as sixth under the 1947 Constitution.

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Mainland China

Mainland China, also known as the Chinese mainland, is the geopolitical as well as geographical area under the direct jurisdiction of the People's Republic of China (PRC).

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Matsu Islands

The Matsu Islands (Fuzhou dialect: Mā-cū liĕk-dō̤ or less frequently,; Fuzhou dialect: 馬祖島 Mā-cū-dō̤) are a minor archipelago of 36 islands and islets in the East China Sea administered as Lienchiang County (連江縣;; Lièng-gŏng-gâing) under streamlined Fujian Province, Republic of China (ROC).

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Miaoli County

Miaoli County is a county in western Taiwan.

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Nantou County

Nantou County is the second largest county of Taiwan.

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New Taipei City

New Taipei City is a special municipality and the most populous city in Taiwan.

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Pe̍h-ōe-jī

Pe̍h-ōe-jī (abbreviated POJ, literally vernacular writing, also known as Church Romanization) is an orthography used to write variants of Southern Min Chinese, particularly Taiwanese Southern Min and Amoy Hokkien.

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Penghu

The Penghu or Pescadores Islands are an archipelago of 90 islands and islets in the Taiwan Strait.

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Pingtung County

Pingtung County is a county in Southern Taiwan known for its agriculture and tourism.

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Pinyin

Hanyu Pinyin Romanization, often abbreviated to pinyin, is the official romanization system for Standard Chinese in mainland China and to some extent in Taiwan.

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Political divisions of Taiwan (1895–1945)

Taiwan was under Japanese rule after the First Sino-Japanese War, as per the Treaty of Shimonoseki of 1895.

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Political status of Taiwan

The controversy regarding the political status of Taiwan, sometimes referred to as the Taiwan Issue or Taiwan Strait Issue, or from a Taiwanese perspective as the Mainland Issue, is a result of the Chinese Civil War and the subsequent split of China into the two present-day self-governing entities of the People's Republic of China (PRC; commonly known as China) and the Republic of China (ROC; commonly known as Taiwan).

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Pratas Islands

The Pratas Islands, also known as the Dongsha Islands and Tungsha Islands, are three atolls (Pratas Atoll, North Vereker Atoll and South Vereker Atoll) in the north of the South China Sea.

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Provincial city (Taiwan)

A provincial city is an administrative division unit in Taiwan.

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Regions of England

The regions of England, formerly known as the government office regions, are the highest tier of sub-national division in England.

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Republic of China (1912–1949)

The Republic of China was a sovereign state in East Asia, that occupied the territories of modern China, and for part of its history Mongolia and Taiwan.

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Romanization

Romanization or romanisation, in linguistics, is the conversion of writing from a different writing system to the Roman (Latin) script, or a system for doing so.

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South China Sea Islands

The South China Sea Islands consist of over 250 islands, atolls, cays, shoals, reefs, and sandbars in the South China Sea, none of which have indigenous people, few of which have any natural water supply, many of which are naturally under water at high tide, while others are permanently submerged.

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Spatial planning

Spatial planning systems refer to the methods and approaches used by the public and private sector to influence the distribution of people and activities in spaces of various scales.

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Special municipality (Taiwan)

A special municipality is an administrative division unit in Taiwan.

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Taichung

Taichung, officially known as Taichung City, is a special municipality located in center-western Taiwan.

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Taichung County

Taichung County was a county in central Taiwan between 1945 and 2010.

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Tainan

Tainan (Hokkien POJ: Tâi-lâm), officially Tainan City, is a special municipality of Taiwan, facing the Formosan Strait or Taiwan Strait in the west and south.

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Tainan County

Tainan County was a county in southern Taiwan between 1945 and 2010.

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Taipei

Taipei, officially known as Taipei City, is the capital and a special municipality of Taiwan (officially known as the Republic of China, "ROC").

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Taiping Island

Taiping Island, better known internationally as Itu Aba, and also known by various other names, is the largest of the naturally occurring Spratly Islands in the South China Sea.

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Taitung County

Taitung County is the third largest county in Taiwan, located on the island's eastern coast.

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Taiwan

Taiwan, officially the Republic of China (ROC), is a state in East Asia.

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Taiwan Province

Taiwan Province is one of the two administrative divisions of the Republic of China (ROC) that are officially referred to as "provinces".

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Taiwan Provincial Government

The Taiwan Provincial Government (TPG) is the provincial government that governs Taiwan Province of the Republic of China (ROC) which is one of the two provinces it controls, the other being the Fujian Province.

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Taiwan under Japanese rule

Taiwan under Japanese rule is the period between 1895 and 1945 in which the island of Taiwan (including the Penghu Islands) was a dependency of the Empire of Japan, after Qing China lost the First Sino-Japanese War to Japan and ceded Taiwan Province in the Treaty of Shimonoseki.

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Taiwanese indigenous peoples

Taiwanese indigenous peoples or formerly Taiwanese aborigines, Formosan people, Austronesian Taiwanese or Gaoshan people are the indigenous peoples of Taiwan, who number nearly 530,000 or 2.3% of the island's population, or more than 800,000 people, considering the potential recognition of Taiwanese Plain Indigenous Peoples officially in the future.

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Tamsui District

Tamsui also Danshui is a sea-side district in New Taipei, Taiwan.

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Taoyuan, Taiwan

Taoyuan City (Hokkien) is a special municipality in northwestern Taiwan, neighboring New Taipei City, Hsinchu County, and Yilan County.

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Tongyong Pinyin

Tongyong Pinyin was the official romanization of Mandarin Chinese in Taiwan between 2002 and 2008.

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Toponymy

Toponymy is the study of place names (toponyms), their origins, meanings, use, and typology.

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Township (Taiwan)

Townships are the third-level administrative subdivisions of counties of Taiwan, along with county-controlled cities.

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Village (Taiwan)

Villages are the fourth level administrative subdivisions of Taiwan.

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Wade–Giles

Wade–Giles, sometimes abbreviated Wade, is a Romanization system for Mandarin Chinese.

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World War II

World War II (often abbreviated to WWII or WW2), also known as the Second World War, was a global war that lasted from 1939 to 1945, although conflicts reflecting the ideological clash between what would become the Allied and Axis blocs began earlier.

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Wuqiu, Kinmen

Wuqiu/Wuchiou is a group of islands comprising two major islands, namely Greater Qiu Islet and Smaller Qiu Islet, in the Taiwan Strait.

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Yilan County, Taiwan

Yilan County is a county in northeastern Taiwan.

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Yunlin County

Yunlin County is a county in western Taiwan.

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Zhongxing New Village

Zhongxing New Village is located in Nantou City, Nantou County, Taiwan (ROC) and is the seat of government of Taiwan Province.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Administrative_divisions_of_Taiwan

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