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- 1912 establishments in China
- Countries and territories where Chinese is an official language
- East Asian countries
- Former Japanese colonies
- Northeast Asian countries
- Republic of China
- States and territories established in 1912
- States with limited recognition
- Taiwan placenames originating from Formosan languages
Acer Inc.
Acer Inc. is a Taiwanese multinational company that produces computer hardware and electronics, headquartered in Xizhi District, New Taipei City, Taiwan.
Additional Articles of the Constitution of the Republic of China
The Additional Articles of the Constitution of the Republic of China are the revisions and amendments to the original constitution of the Republic of China to "meet the requisites of the nation prior to national unification", taking into account the democratic reforms and current political status of Taiwan.
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Administrative divisions of Taiwan
Taiwan (Republic of China) is divided into multi-layered statutory subdivisions.
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Agence France-Presse
Agence France-Presse (AFP) is a French international news agency headquartered in Paris, France.
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Agriculture
Agriculture encompasses crop and livestock production, aquaculture, fisheries, and forestry for food and non-food products.
Air defense identification zone
An air defense identification zone (ADIZ) is a region of airspace in which a country tries to identify, locate, and control aircraft in the interest of national security.
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Aiyu jelly
Aiyu jelly (or; or simply), known in Amoy Hokkien as ogio, and as ice jelly in Singapore, is a jelly made from the gel from the seeds of the awkeotsang creeping fig found in Taiwan and East Asian countries of the same climates and latitudes.
Al Jazeera Media Network
Al Jazeera Media Network (AJMN; The Peninsula) is a private-media conglomerate headquartered at Wadi Al Sail, Doha, funded in part by the government of Qatar.
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Allies of World War II
The Allies, formally referred to as the United Nations from 1942, were an international military coalition formed during World War II (1939–1945) to oppose the Axis powers.
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American Institute in Taiwan
The American Institute in Taiwan (AIT) is the ''de facto'' embassy of the United States of America in Taiwan.
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Amis people
The Amis (Amis, Ami, Pangcah; Muqami), also known as the Pangcah (which means 'people' and 'kinsmen'), are an indigenous Austronesian ethnic group native to Taiwan.
Ang Lee
Ang Lee (born October 23, 1954) is a Taiwanese filmmaker.
Anping District
Anping District is a district of Tainan, Taiwan.
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Anti-Secession Law
The Anti-Secession Law is a law of the People's Republic of China, passed by the 3rd Session of the 10th National People's Congress.
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ANZUS
The Australia, New Zealand, United States Security Treaty (ANZUS or ANZUS Treaty) is a 1951 collective security agreement initially formed as a trilateral agreement between Australia, New Zealand, and the United States; and from 1986 an agreement between New Zealand and Australia, and separately, Australia and the United States, to co-operate on military matters in the Pacific Ocean region, although today the treaty is taken to relate to conflicts worldwide.
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Armed Forces & Society
Armed Forces & Society is a quarterly peer-reviewed academic publication that publishes articles and book reviews on a wide variety of topics including civil–military relations, military sociology, veterans, military psychology, military institutions, conflict management, peacekeeping, conflict resolution, military contracting, terrorism, gender related issues, military families and military ethics.
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Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation
Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) is an inter-governmental forum for 21 member economies in the Pacific Rim that promotes free trade throughout the Asia-Pacific region.
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Asian Development Bank
The Asian Development Bank (ADB) is a regional development bank established on 19 December 1966, which is headquartered in 6 ADB Avenue, Mandaluyong, Metro Manila 1550, Philippines.
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Association football
Association football, more commonly known as football or soccer, is a team sport played between two teams of 11 players each, who primarily use their feet to propel a ball around a rectangular field called a pitch.
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Association for Relations Across the Taiwan Straits
The Association for Relations Across the Taiwan Straits (ARATS;; often abbreviated as) is a united front organization set up by the Taiwan Affairs Office of the People's Republic of China for handling technical and business matters with Taiwan.
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Asus
ASUSTeK Computer Inc. (stylized as ASUSTeK or ASUS) is a Taiwanese multinational computer, phone hardware and electronics manufacturer headquartered in Beitou District, Taipei, Taiwan.
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Atayal people
The Atayal, also known as the Tayal and the Tayan, are a Taiwanese indigenous people.
Australia (continent)
The continent of Australia, sometimes known in technical contexts by the names Sahul, Australia-New Guinea, Australinea, Oceania, or Meganesia to distinguish it from the country of Australia, is located within the Southern and Eastern hemispheres.
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Australian National University
The Australian National University (ANU) is a public research university and member of the Group of Eight, located in Canberra, the capital of Australia.
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Austronesian languages
The Austronesian languages are a language family widely spoken throughout Maritime Southeast Asia, parts of Mainland Southeast Asia, Madagascar, the islands of the Pacific Ocean and Taiwan (by Taiwanese indigenous peoples).
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Badminton
Badminton is a racquet sport played using racquets to hit a shuttlecock across a net.
Banners of Inner Mongolia
A banner ("khoshun" in Mongolian) is an administrative division of the Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region in China, equivalent to a county-level administrative division.
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Baseball
Baseball is a bat-and-ball sport played between two teams of nine players each, taking turns batting and fielding.
Baseball in Taiwan
Baseball is a major sport in Taiwan that is often characterized as the national sport.
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Basketball
Basketball is a team sport in which two teams, most commonly of five players each, opposing one another on a rectangular court, compete with the primary objective of shooting a basketball (approximately in diameter) through the defender's hoop (a basket in diameter mounted high to a backboard at each end of the court), while preventing the opposing team from shooting through their own hoop.
Battle of Hainan Island
The Battle of Hainan Island occurred in 1950, during the final phase of the Chinese Civil War.
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BBC
The British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) is a British public service broadcaster headquartered at Broadcasting House in London, England.
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BBC News
BBC News is an operational business division of the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) responsible for the gathering and broadcasting of news and current affairs in the UK and around the world.
Beiding Island
Beiding Island (Dodd Island, Pei-ting Tao, Beiding Dao, United States National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency) (pinyin: Běidìng Dǎo) is an island located east of Greater Kinmen in Jinhu Township, Kinmen County, Fujian Province, Republic of China (Taiwan). On September 8, 1978, a butchers group from Jinhu visited Dongding Island and Beiding Island to bring gifts to the soldiers there.
Beipu uprising
The Beipu Incident, or the Beipu Uprising, in 1907 was the first instance of an armed local uprising against the Japanese rule of the island of Taiwan.
Beiyang government
The Beiyang government was the internationally recognized government of the Republic of China between 1912 and 1928, based in Beijing. Taiwan and Beiyang government are 1912 establishments in China.
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Black gold (politics)
Black gold is a term used in Taiwan to refer to political corruption, underworld politics and political violence.
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Black Sabbath
Black Sabbath were an English rock band formed in Birmingham in 1968 by guitarist Tony Iommi, drummer Bill Ward, bassist Geezer Butler and vocalist Ozzy Osbourne.
Bloomberg Businessweek
Bloomberg Businessweek, previously known as BusinessWeek (and before that Business Week and The Business Week), is an American monthly business magazine published 12 times a year.
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Blue Sky with a White Sun
The Blue Sky with a White Sun is the national emblem of the Republic of China that covers the period of history in Mainland China and Taiwan.
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Book of Documents
The Book of Documents, or the Classic of History, is one of the Five Classics of ancient Chinese literature.
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Book of Sui
The Book of Sui is the official history of the Sui dynasty, which ruled China in the years AD 581–618.
Brill Publishers
Brill Academic Publishers, also known as E. J. Brill, Koninklijke Brill, Brill, is a Dutch international academic publisher of books and journals.
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Brokeback Mountain
Brokeback Mountain is a 2005 American neo-Western romantic drama film directed by Ang Lee and produced by Diana Ossana and James Schamus.
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Bubble tea
Bubble tea (also known as pearl milk tea, bubble milk tea, tapioca milk tea, boba tea, or boba) is a tea-based drink that originated in Taiwan in the early 1980s.
Buddhism
Buddhism, also known as Buddha Dharma and Dharmavinaya, is an Indian religion and philosophical tradition based on teachings attributed to the Buddha, a wandering teacher who lived in the 6th or 5th century BCE.
Buddhism in Taiwan
Buddhism is one of the major religions of Taiwan. Taiwanese people predominantly practice Mahayana Buddhism, Confucian principles, Taoist tradition and local practices.
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Bunun people
The Bunun (Bunun: Bunun), also historically known as the Vonum, are a Taiwanese indigenous people.
BWF World Ranking
The BWF World Ranking is the official ranking of the Badminton World Federation for badminton players who participate in tournaments sanctioned by Badminton World Federation.
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BWF World Tour
The BWF World Tour is a Grade 2 badminton tournament series, sanctioned by Badminton World Federation (BWF).
Calendar era
A calendar era is the period of time elapsed since one epoch of a calendar and, if it exists, before the next one.
Cape Eluanbi
Cape Eluanbi or Oluanpi, also known by other names, is the southernmost point on the island of Taiwan.
Capitalism
Capitalism is an economic system based on the private ownership of the means of production and their operation for profit.
Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
The Carnegie Endowment for International Peace (CEIP) is a nonpartisan international affairs think tank headquartered in Washington, D.C., with operations in Europe, South and East Asia, and the Middle East as well as the United States.
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Cash crop
A cash crop, also called profit crop, is an agricultural crop which is grown to sell for profit.
Catholic Church
The Catholic Church, also known as the Roman Catholic Church, is the largest Christian church, with 1.28 to 1.39 billion baptized Catholics worldwide as of 2024.
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Central Cross-Island Highway
The Central Cross-Island Highway or Provincial Highway 8 is one of three highway systems that connect the west coast with the east of Taiwan.
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Central Epidemic Command Center
The Central Epidemic Command Center (CECC) is an agency of the (NHCC).
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Central Intelligence Agency
The Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), known informally as the Agency, metonymously as Langley and historically as the Company, is a civilian foreign intelligence service of the federal government of the United States tasked with gathering, processing, and analyzing national security information from around the world, primarily through the use of human intelligence (HUMINT) and conducting covert action through its Directorate of Operations.
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Central News Agency (Taiwan)
The Central News Agency (CNA) is Taiwan's semi-official wire service.
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Centre pour l'Édition Électronique Ouverte
The Centre pour l'Édition Électronique Ouverte (CLEO, Cléo), based in Marseille, France, is overseen by Aix-Marseille University, the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, School for Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences, and University of Avignon and the Vaucluse.
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Charlotte Hu
Ching-Yun "Charlotte" Hu is a Taiwanese-born American classical pianist.
Chekiang Province, Republic of China
Zhejiang or Chekiang is a de jure province in the Republic of China according to the ROC law, as the ROC government formally claims to be the legitimate government of the whole China. Taiwan and Chekiang Province, Republic of China are 1912 establishments in China and states and territories established in 1912.
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Chen Di
Chen Di / Chʻen Ti (1541–1617), courtesy name: Jili (季立), was a Chinese philologist, strategist, and traveler of the Ming dynasty.
Chen Shih-hsin
Chen Shih-hsin (born 16 November 1978) is the first Taiwanese athlete to win a gold medal at the Olympics.
Chen Shui-bian
Chen Shui-bian (born 12 October 1950) is a Taiwanese former politician and lawyer who served as the 5th president of the Republic of China (Taiwan) from 2000 to 2008.
Chen Shui-bian corruption charges
Chen Shui-bian, former President of the Republic of China, stepped down on May 20, 2008, the same day that Ma Ying-jeou took office as the new President of the Republic of China.
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Chiang Ching-kuo
Chiang Ching-kuo (27 April 1910 – 13 January 1988) was a politician of the Republic of China.
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Chiang Kai-shek
Chiang Kai-shek (31 October 18875 April 1975) was a Chinese statesman, revolutionary, and military commander.
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Chiang Wei-shui
Chiang Wei-shui (6 August 1890 – 5 August 1931) was a Taiwanese physician and activist.
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Chiefdom
A chiefdom is a political organization of people represented or governed by a chief.
Chien-Ming Wang
Chien-Ming Wang (born March 31, 1980) is a Taiwanese former professional baseball pitcher.
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China
China, officially the People's Republic of China (PRC), is a country in East Asia. Taiwan and China are countries and territories where Chinese is an official language, east Asian countries, northeast Asian countries, republics and states with limited recognition.
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China Airlines
China Airlines (CAL) is the state-owned flag carrier of the Republic of China (Taiwan).
China and the United Nations
China is one of the members of the United Nations and is one of five permanent members of its Security Council.
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Chinese calendar
The traditional Chinese calendar (l; informally l) is a lunisolar calendar, combining the solar, lunar, and other cycles for various social and agricultural purposes.
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Chinese Civil War
The Chinese Civil War was fought between the Kuomintang-led government of the Republic of China and the forces of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), with armed conflict continuing intermittently from 1 August 1927 until 7 December 1949, resulting in a communist victory and control of mainland China.
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Chinese Communist Party
The Chinese Communist Party (CCP), officially the Communist Party of China (CPC), is the founding and sole ruling party of the People's Republic of China (PRC).
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Chinese Cultural Renaissance
The Chinese Cultural Renaissance or the Chinese Cultural Renaissance Movement was a movement promoted in Taiwan in opposition to the cultural destructions caused by the Chinese Communist Party during the Cultural Revolution.
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Chinese culture
Chinese culture is one of the world's oldest cultures, originating thousands of years ago.
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Chinese folk religion
Chinese folk religion, also known as Chinese popular religion, comprehends a range of traditional religious practices of Han Chinese, including the Chinese diaspora.
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Chinese New Year
Chinese New Year or the Spring Festival (see also § Names) is a festival that celebrates the beginning of a new year on the traditional lunisolar Chinese calendar.
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Chinese Professional Baseball League
The Chinese Professional Baseball League (CPBL) is the top-tier professional baseball league in Taiwan.
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Chinese Taipei
"Chinese Taipei" is the term used in various international organizations and tournaments for groups or delegations representing the Republic of China (ROC), a country commonly known as Taiwan.
Chinese Taipei national baseball team
The Chinese Taipei national baseball team is the national men's baseball team of Taiwan.
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Chinese Taipei national Baseball5 team
The Chinese Taipei national Baseball5 team represents Taiwan in international Baseball5 competitions.
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Chinese Taipei women's national baseball team
The Chinese Taipei women's national baseball team is a national team of Taiwan and is governed by the Chinese Taipei Baseball Association.
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Chinese Taipei women's national softball team
Chinese Taipei women's national softball team is the national team for Taiwan (Chinese Taipei).
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Chinese unification
Chinese unification, also known as Cross-Strait unification or Chinese reunification, is the potential unification of territories currently controlled, or claimed, by the People's Republic of China ("China" or "Mainland China") and the Republic of China ("Taiwan") under one political entity, possibly the formation of a political union between the two republics.
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Cho Jung-tai
Cho Jung-tai (born 22 January 1959) is a Taiwanese politician who is the premier of Taiwan (officially Republic of China) since 2024.
Cho-liang Lin
Cho-Liang Lin (Lin Cho-liang,, born January 29, 1960), born in Hsinchu, Taiwan, is an American violinist who is renowned for his appearances as a soloist with major orchestras.
Christian University of Indonesia
The Christian University of Indonesia (UKI, or Universitas Kristen Indonesia) is a private university located in Jakarta, Indonesia.
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Christianity
Christianity is an Abrahamic monotheistic religion based on the life and teachings of Jesus Christ.
Christianity in Taiwan
Christianity in Taiwan constituted 3.9% of the population, according to the census of 2005; Christians on the island included approximately 600,000 Protestants, 300,000 Catholics and a small number of members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
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Chthonic (band)
Chthonic (styled as ChthoniC or ChThoniC) is a Taiwanese heavy metal band, formed in 1995 in Taipei.
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Chu Mu-yen
Chu Mu-yen (born 14 March 1982) is a Taiwanese Taekwondo athlete from Taiwan.
Chuang Chih-yuan
Chuang Chih-yuan (born 2 April 1981) is a Taiwanese table tennis player.
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Cinema of Taiwan
The cinema of Taiwan or Taiwan cinema (t or 台灣電影) is deeply rooted in the island's unique history.
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Civicus
CIVICUS is an international non-profit organisation, which describes itself as "a global alliance dedicated to strengthening citizen action and civil society around the world." Founded in 1993, the organisation today counts more than 8500 members in more than 175 countries, with its headquarters in Johannesburg and offices in Geneva and New York.
Civil liberties
Civil liberties are guarantees and freedoms that governments commit not to abridge, either by constitution, legislation, or judicial interpretation, without due process.
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Classical Chinese
Classical Chinese is the language in which the classics of Chinese literature were written, from.
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Climate
Climate is the long-term weather pattern in a region, typically averaged over 30 years.
Climate change in Taiwan
Climate change in Taiwan has caused temperatures in Taiwan to rise by 1.4 degrees Celsius the last 100 years.
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CNBC
CNBC is an American business news channel owned by NBCUniversal News Group, a unit of Comcast's NBCUniversal.
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CNN
Cable News Network (CNN) is a multinational news channel and website operating from Midtown Atlanta, Georgia, U.S. Founded in 1980 by American media proprietor Ted Turner and Reese Schonfeld as a 24-hour cable news channel, and presently owned by the Manhattan-based media conglomerate Warner Bros. Discovery (WBD), CNN was the first television channel to provide 24-hour news coverage and the first all-news television channel in the United States.
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Combat sport
A combat sport, or fighting sport, is a contact sport that usually involves one-on-one combat.
Comfort women
Comfort women were women and girls forced into sexual slavery by the Imperial Japanese Armed Forces in occupied countries and territories before and during World War II.
Commander-in-chief
A commander-in-chief or supreme commander is the person who exercises supreme command and control over an armed force or a military branch.
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Confucianism
Confucianism, also known as Ruism or Ru classicism, is a system of thought and behavior originating in ancient China, and is variously described as a tradition, philosophy (humanistic or rationalistic), religion, theory of government, or way of life.
Constituent assembly
A constituent assembly (also known as a constitutional convention, constitutional congress, or constitutional assembly) is a body assembled for the purpose of drafting or revising a constitution.
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Constitution of the Republic of China
The Constitution of the Republic of China is the fifth and current constitution of the Republic of China (ROC), ratified by the Kuomintang during the Constituent National Assembly session on 25 December 1946, in Nanjing, and adopted on 25 December 1947.
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Constitutional court
A constitutional court is a high court that deals primarily with constitutional law.
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Consul (representative)
A consul is an official representative of a government who resides in a foreign country to assist and protect citizens of the consul's country, and to promote and facilitate commercial and diplomatic relations between the two countries.
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Control Yuan
The Control Yuan is the supervisory and auditory branch of the government of the Republic of China, both during its time in mainland China and Taiwan.
Controlled-access highway
A controlled-access highway is a type of highway that has been designed for high-speed vehicular traffic, with all traffic flow—ingress and egress—regulated.
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Counties of Taiwan
A county, constitutionally known as a hsien, is a de jure second-level administrative division unit in the Republic of China (Taiwan).
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COVID-19
Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) is a contagious disease caused by the coronavirus SARS-CoV-2.
COVID-19 pandemic in Taiwan
The COVID-19 pandemic in Taiwan was a part of the worldwide pandemic of coronavirus disease 2019 caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2.
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Cross-strait relations
Cross-strait relations (sometimes called Mainland–Taiwan relations, China–Taiwan relations or Taiwan–China relations) are the political and economic relations between mainland China (officially the People's Republic of China or PRC) and Taiwan (officially the Republic of China or ROC) across the Taiwan Strait.
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Cross-Strait Service Trade Agreement
The Cross-Strait Service Trade Agreement, commonly abbreviated CSSTA and sometimes alternatively translated Cross-Strait Agreement on Trade in Services, is a treaty between the People's Republic of China and the Republic of China (Taiwan) that was signed in June 2013.
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Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon
Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon is a 2000 martial arts film directed by Ang Lee and written for the screen by Wang Hui-ling, James Schamus, and Tsai Kuo-jung.
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Cultural assimilation
Cultural assimilation is the process in which a minority group or culture comes to resemble a society's majority group or assimilates the values, behaviors, and beliefs of another group whether fully or partially.
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Cultural Revolution
The Cultural Revolution, formally known as the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution, was a sociopolitical movement in the People's Republic of China (PRC).
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Cultural Survival
Cultural Survival (founded 1972) is a nonprofit group based in Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States, which is dedicated to defending the human rights of indigenous peoples.
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Culture of Japan
The culture of Japan has changed greatly over the millennia, from the country's prehistoric Jōmon period, to its contemporary modern culture, which absorbs influences from Asia and other regions of the world.
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Culture of Taiwan
The culture of Taiwan is a blend of Han Chinese and indigenous Taiwanese cultures.
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Dachen Islands
The Dachen Islands, Tachen Islands or Tachens are a group of islands off the coast of Taizhou, Zhejiang, China, in the East China Sea.
Dadan Island
Dadan Island (Tatan, Taitan Island, Tae-tan/Taetan) (originally 大擔島) is an island in Lieyu Township, Kinmen County, Fujian Province, Republic of China (Taiwan). The island is in the Taiwan Strait, along the coast of Mainland China. It is located approximately to the southwest of Lesser Kinmen (Lieyu) and approximately from Xiamen (Amoy).
Dajia River
Dajia River is the fifth-longest river in Taiwan located in the north-central of the island.
Dang Guo
Dang Guo (l) was the one-party system adopted by the Republic of China (ROC) under the Kuomintang, lasting from 1924 to 1987.
Daoyi Zhilüe
Daoyi Zhilüe or Daoyi Zhi which may be translated as A Brief Account of Island Barbarians or other similar titles, is a book written c. 1339 (completed c. 1349) by Yuan dynasty Chinese traveller Wang Dayuan recounting his travels to over a hundred places in South Asia, Southeast Asia, and Africa.
Dapenkeng culture
The Dapenkeng culture was an early Neolithic culture that appeared in northern Taiwan between 4000 and 3000 BC and quickly spread around the coast of the island, as well as the Penghu islands to the west.
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De jure
In law and government, de jure describes practices that are legally recognized, regardless of whether the practice exists in reality.
Demesne
A demesne or domain was all the land retained and managed by a lord of the manor under the feudal system for his own use, occupation, or support.
Democracy in Asia
Democracy in Asia can be comparatively assessed according to various definitions of democracy.
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Democratic Progressive Party
The Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) is a centre to centre-left Taiwanese nationalist political party in Taiwan.
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Democratization
Democratization, or democratisation, is the structural government transition from an authoritarian government to a more democratic political regime, including substantive political changes moving in a democratic direction.
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Developed country
A developed country, or advanced country, is a sovereign state that has a high quality of life, developed economy, and advanced technological infrastructure relative to other less industrialized nations.
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Diplomacy
Diplomacy comprises spoken or written communication by representatives of state, intergovernmental, or non-governmental institutions intended to influence events in the international system.
Diplomatic mission
A diplomatic mission or foreign mission is a group of people from a state or organization present in another state to represent the sending state or organization officially in the receiving or host state.
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Diplomatic recognition
Diplomatic recognition in international law is a unilateral declarative political act of a state that acknowledges an act or status of another state or government in control of a state (may be also a recognized state).
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Directorate General of Budget, Accounting and Statistics
The Directorate General of Budget, Accounting and Statistics (DGBAS) is a branch of the Executive Yuan of the Republic of China (Taiwan), performs the role of both a comptroller for the government and census bureau.
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Dongding Island
Dongding Island is an 0.0160 square kilometer island in the Taiwan Strait in Jinhu Township, Kinmen County (Quemoy), Fujian Province, Republic of China (Taiwan).
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Dragon Boat Festival
The Dragon Boat Festival (p) is a traditional Chinese holiday that occurs on the fifth day of the fifth month of the Chinese calendar, which corresponds to late May or early June in the Gregorian calendar.
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Dutch East India Company
The United East India Company (Vereenigde Oostindische Compagnie, abbreviated as VOC), commonly known as the Dutch East India Company, was a chartered trading company and one of the first joint-stock companies in the world.
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Dutch Formosa
The island of Taiwan, also commonly known as Formosa, was partly under colonial rule by the Dutch Republic from 1624 to 1662 and from 1664 to 1668.
East Asia
East Asia is a geographical and cultural region of Asia including the countries of China, Japan, Mongolia, North Korea, South Korea, and Taiwan.
East Asian monsoon
The East Asian monsoon is a monsoonal flow that carries moist air from the Indian Ocean and Pacific Ocean to East Asia.
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East Asian rainy season
The East Asian rainy season, also called the plum rain, is caused by precipitation along a persistent stationary front known as the Meiyu front for nearly two months during the late spring and early summer in East Asia between China, Taiwan, Korea and Japan.
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East China Sea
The East China Sea is a marginal sea of the Western Pacific Ocean, located directly offshore from East China.
East–West Center
The East–West Center (EWC), or the Center for Cultural and Technical Interchange Between East and West, is an education and research organization established by the U.S. Congress in 1960 to strengthen relations and understanding among the peoples and nations of Asia, the Pacific, and the United States as part of Cold War diplomatic efforts.
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Eastern Zhou
The Eastern Zhou (Chinese: 东周; pinyin: Dōngzhōu; Wade–Giles: Tung1 Chou1; c. 771 – 256 BC) is a period in Chinese history comprising the latter half of the Zhou dynasty following the Zhou capital's relocation eastward to Chengzhou, near present-day Luoyang.
Eat Drink Man Woman
Eat Drink Man Woman is a 1994 comedy-drama film directed by Ang Lee, from a script co-written with James Schamus and Hui-Ling Wang.
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Economist Intelligence Unit
The Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU) is the research and analysis division of the Economist Group, providing forecasting and advisory services through research and analysis, such as monthly country reports, five-year country economic forecasts, country risk service reports, and industry reports.
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Education in Taiwan
The educational system in Taiwan is the responsibility of the Ministry of Education.
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Edward Yang
Edward Yang (November 6, 1947 – June 29, 2007) was a Taiwanese filmmaker.
Electoral college
An electoral college is a set of electors who are selected to elect a candidate to particular offices.
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Empire of Japan
The Empire of Japan, also referred to as the Japanese Empire, Imperial Japan, or simply Japan, was the Japanese nation-state that existed from the Meiji Restoration in 1868 until the enactment of the reformed Constitution of Japan in 1947.
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Endangered language
An endangered language or moribund language is a language that is at risk of disappearing as its speakers die out or shift to speaking other languages.
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Erdan Island
Erdan Island (Erhtan Island) (also 二擔島) is an island in Lieyu Township, Kinmen County (Quemoy), Taiwan. The island has been called Seao-tan. Erdan Island is from Greater Kinmen Island and from Xiamen (Amoy) Island.
Ethnologue
Ethnologue: Languages of the World is an annual reference publication in print and online that provides statistics and other information on the living languages of the world.
Ethnonym
An ethnonym is a name applied to a given ethnic group.
Eurasian Plate
The Eurasian Plate is a tectonic plate that includes most of the continent of Eurasia (a landmass consisting of the traditional continents of Europe and Asia), with the notable exceptions of the Indian subcontinent, the Arabian subcontinent and the area east of the Chersky Range in eastern Siberia.
European Court of Auditors
The European Court of Auditors (ECA; French: Cour des comptes européenne) is the supreme audit institution of the European Union (EU).
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European Personnel Selection Office
The European Personnel Selection Office (EPSO) is responsible for selecting staff to work for the institutions and agencies of the European Union including the European Parliament, the European Council, the Council of the European Union, the European Commission, the European Court of Justice, the Court of Auditors, the European External Action Service, the Economic and Social Committee, the Committee of the Regions and the European Ombudsman.
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European Union
The European Union (EU) is a supranational political and economic union of member states that are located primarily in Europe.
EVA Air
EVA Airways Corporation is a Taiwanese international airline headquartered in Taoyuan City.
Examination Yuan
The Examination Yuan is the civil service commission branch, in charge of validating the qualification of civil servants, of the government of the Republic of China (Taiwan).
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Executive Yuan
The Executive Yuan is the executive branch of the government of the Republic of China (Taiwan).
Export-oriented industrialization
Export-oriented industrialization (EOI), sometimes called export substitution industrialization (ESI), export-led industrialization (ELI), or export-led growth, is a trade and economic policy aiming to speed up the industrialization process of a country by exporting goods for which the nation has a comparative advantage.
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FamilyMart
is a Japanese convenience store franchise chain, and a subsidiary of Itochu, a Japanese trading company.
Fault block
Fault blocks are very large blocks of rock, sometimes hundreds of kilometres in extent, created by tectonic and localized stresses in Earth's crust.
February 28 incident
The February 28 incident (also called the February 28 massacre, the 228 incident, or the 228 massacre) was an anti-government uprising in Taiwan in 1947 that was violently suppressed by the Kuomintang–led nationalist government of the Republic of China (ROC).
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Fee-for-service
Fee-for-service (FFS) is a payment model where services are unbundled and paid for separately.
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First Sino-Japanese War
The First Sino-Japanese War (25 July 1894 – 17 April 1895) or the First China–Japan War was a conflict between the Qing dynasty and the Empire of Japan primarily over influence in Korea.
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First Taiwan Strait Crisis
The First Taiwan Strait Crisis (also known as the Formosa Crisis, the 1954–1955 Taiwan Strait Crisis, the Offshore Islands Crisis, the Quemoy-Matsu Crisis, and the 1955 Taiwan Strait Crisis) was a brief armed conflict between the People's Republic of China (PRC) and the Republic of China (ROC) in Taiwan.
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Fishing
Fishing is the activity of trying to catch fish.
Flag of the Republic of China
The flag of the Republic of China, commonly called the flag of Taiwan, consists of a red field with a blue canton bearing a white disk surrounded by twelve triangles; said symbols symbolize the sun and rays of light emanating from it, respectively.
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Foreign direct investment
A foreign direct investment (FDI) refers to purchase of an asset in another country, such that it gives direct control to the purchaser over the asset (e.g. purchase of land and building).
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Foreign policy
Foreign policy, also known as external policy, is the set of strategies and actions a state employs in its interactions with other states, unions, and international entities.
Foreign relations of Taiwan
Foreign relations of the Republic of China (ROC), more commonly known as Taiwan, are accomplished by efforts of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of China, a cabinet-level ministry of the Government of the Republic of China.
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Forest Landscape Integrity Index
The Forest Landscape Integrity Index (FLII) is an annual global index of forest condition measured by degree of anthropogenic modification.
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Formosa Air Battle
The Formosa Air Battle (translation), 12–16 October 1944, was a series of large-scale aerial engagements between carrier air groups of the United States Navy Fast Carrier Task Force (TF38) and Japanese land-based air forces of the Imperial Japanese Navy (IJN) and Imperial Japanese Army (IJA).
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Formosa Resolution of 1955
The Formosa Resolution of 1955 was a joint resolution passed by the U.S. Senate and signed by U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower on January 29, 1955, to counteract the threat of an invasion of Taiwan (Republic of China) by the People's Republic of China (PRC).
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Formosan languages
The Formosan languages are a geographic grouping comprising the languages of the indigenous peoples of Taiwan, all of which are Austronesian.
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Fort Santo Domingo
Fort Santo Domingo is a historical fortress in Tamsui District, New Taipei City, Taiwan.
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Fort Zeelandia (Taiwan)
Fort Zeelandia was a fortress built over ten years from 1624 to 1634 by the Dutch East India Company (VOC), in the town of Anping (now Anping District of Tainan) on Formosa, the former name of central island of Taiwan, during their 38-year rule over the western part of the island.
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Four Asian Tigers
The Four Asian Tigers (also known as the Four Asian Dragons or Four Little Dragons in Chinese and Korean) are the developed Asian economies of Hong Kong, Singapore, South Korea, and Taiwan.
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Four-Stage Theory of the Republic of China
The Four-Stage Theory of the Republic of China or the Theory of the Four Stages of the Republic of China is a viewpoint proposed by Chen Shui-bian, the President of the Republic of China from 2000 to 2008, in 2005.
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Foxconn
Hon Hai Precision Industry Co.
Freddy Lim
Freddy Lim Tshiong-tso (Tâi-lô: Lîm Tshióng-tsò; born 1 February 1976) is a Taiwanese politician, musician, and independence activist.
Free area of the Republic of China
The free area of the Republic of China, also known as the "Taiwan Area of the Republic of China", the "Tai-Min Area (Taiwan and Fuchien)" or simply the "Taiwan Area", is a term used by the government of the Republic of China (Taiwan) to refer to the territories under its actual control.
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Freedom House
Freedom House is a non-profit organization based in Washington, D.C. It is best known for political advocacy surrounding issues of democracy, political freedom, and human rights.
Freedom of religion
Freedom of religion or religious liberty is a principle that supports the freedom of an individual or community, in public or private, to manifest religion or belief in teaching, practice, worship, and observance.
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Freedom of religion in Taiwan
Freedom of religion in Taiwan is provided for by the Constitution of the Republic of China, which is in force on Taiwan.
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Freedom of speech
Freedom of speech is a principle that supports the freedom of an individual or a community to articulate their opinions and ideas without fear of retaliation, censorship, or legal sanction.
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Fuchien Province, Republic of China
Fuchien Province, also romanized as Fujian and rendered as Fukien, is a nominal province of the Republic of China (ROC, Taiwan) without formal administrative function.
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Fujian
Fujian is a province on the southeastern coast of China.
General Order No. 1
General Order No.
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Geography of Taiwan
Taiwan, officially the Republic of China (ROC), is an island country in East Asia.
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GlobalFoundries
GlobalFoundries Inc. is a multinational semiconductor contract manufacturing and design company incorporated in the Cayman Islands and headquartered in Malta, New York.
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Gold reserve
A gold reserve is the gold held by a national central bank, intended mainly as a guarantee to redeem promises to pay depositors, note holders (e.g. paper money), or trading peers, during the eras of the gold standard, and also as a store of value, or to support the value of the national currency.
Golden Horse Film Festival and Awards
The Taipei Golden Horse Film Festival and Taipei Golden Horse Awards are a film festival and associated awards ceremony held annually in Taiwan.
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Golf
Golf is a club-and-ball sport in which players use various clubs to hit a ball into a series of holes on a course in as few strokes as possible.
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Government Accountability Office
The U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO) is an independent, nonpartisan government agency within the legislative branch that provides auditing, evaluative, and investigative services for the United States Congress.
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Government agency
A government agency or 1 Branches, state agency, sometimes an appointed commission, is a permanent or semi-permanent organization in the machinery of government (bureaucracy) that is responsible for the oversight and administration of specific functions, such as an administration.
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Government of the Republic of China
The Government of the Republic of China, is the national authority whose actual-controlled territory consists of main island of Taiwan (Formosa), Penghu, Kinmen, Matsu, and other island groups, collectively known as ''Taiwan Area'' or ''Free Area''. Taiwan and Government of the Republic of China are republic of China.
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Green Party Taiwan
Green Party Taiwan is a political party in Taiwan established on 25 January 1996.
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Greenhouse gas emissions
Greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions from human activities intensify the greenhouse effect.
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Gregorian calendar
The Gregorian calendar is the calendar used in most parts of the world.
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Gross domestic product
Gross domestic product (GDP) is a monetary measure of the market value of all the final goods and services produced and rendered in a specific time period by a country or countries.
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Hai'an Range
The Coastal Mountain Range, also known as the Hai'an Range, is a mountain range situated on the eastern coast of the island of Taiwan, and spans the border between Hualien and Taitung Counties.
Haijin
The Haijin (海禁) or sea ban were a series of related isolationist policies in China restricting private maritime trading and coastal settlement during most of the Ming dynasty and early Qing dynasty.
Hainan
Hainan is an island province of the People's Republic of China (PRC), consisting of the eponymous Hainan Island and various smaller islands in the South China Sea under the province's administration.
Hakka Chinese
Hakka (Pha̍k-fa-sṳ:,; Pha̍k-fa-sṳ) forms a language group of varieties of Chinese, spoken natively by the Hakka people in parts of Southern China, Taiwan, some diaspora areas of Southeast Asia and in overseas Chinese communities around the world.
Hakka people
The Hakka, sometimes also referred to as Hakka Han, or Hakka Chinese, or Hakkas, are a southern Han Chinese subgroup whose principal settlements and ancestral homes are dispersed widely across the provinces of southern China and who speak a language that is closely related to Gan, a Han Chinese dialect spoken in Jiangxi province.
Han Chinese
The Han Chinese or the Han people, or colloquially known as the Chinese are an East Asian ethnic group native to Greater China.
Han Kuo-yu
Han Kuo-yu (Chinese: 韓國瑜, born 17 June 1957), also known as Daniel Han, is a Taiwanese politician and retired Republic of China Army officer who is the current president of the Legislative Yuan.
Han Taiwanese
Han Taiwanese, Taiwanese Han, Taiwanese Han Chinese, or Han Chinese are Taiwanese people of full or partial ethnic Han ancestry.
Harry S. Truman
Harry S. Truman (May 8, 1884December 26, 1972) was the 33rd president of the United States, serving from 1945 to 1953.
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Head of state
A head of state (or chief of state) is the public persona of a sovereign state.
Headhunting
Headhunting is the practice of hunting a human and collecting the severed head after killing the victim, although sometimes more portable body parts (such as ear, nose, or scalp) are taken instead as trophies.
Health equity
Health equity arises from access to the social determinants of health, specifically from wealth, power and prestige.
Health system
A health system, health care system or healthcare system is an organization of people, institutions, and resources that delivers health care services to meet the health needs of target populations.
Healthcare in Taiwan
Healthcare in Taiwan is administered by the Ministry of Health and Welfare of the Executive Yuan.
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Heavy metal music
Heavy metal (or simply metal) is a genre of rock music that developed in the late 1960s and early 1970s, largely in the United Kingdom and United States.
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History of Taiwan
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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History of Taiwan (1945–present)
As a result of the surrender and occupation of Japan at the end of World War II, the islands of Taiwan and Penghu were placed under the governance of the Republic of China (ROC), ruled by the Kuomintang (KMT), on 25 October 1945.
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Hokkien
Hokkien is a variety of the Southern Min languages, native to and originating from the Minnan region, in the southeastern part of Fujian in southeastern mainland China.
Hoklo people
The Hoklo people are a Han Chinese subgroup who speak Hokkien, a Southern Min language, or trace their ancestry to southeastern Fujian in China, and known by various related terms such as Banlam people, Minnan people, or more commonly in Southeast Asia as the Hokkien people.
Holy See
The Holy See (url-status,; Santa Sede), also called the See of Rome, Petrine See or Apostolic See, is the jurisdiction of the pope in his role as the Bishop of Rome.
Hong Kong
Hong Kong is a special administrative region of the People's Republic of China. Taiwan and Hong Kong are countries and territories where Chinese is an official language.
Hong Kong Free Press
Hong Kong Free Press (HKFP) is a free, non-profit news website based in Hong Kong.
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Horizontal and vertical writing in East Asian scripts
Many East Asian scripts can be written horizontally or vertically.
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Hou Hsiao-hsien
Hou Hsiao-hsien (born 8 April 1947) is a retired Mainland Chinese-born Taiwanese film director, screenwriter, producer and actor.
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House of Representatives (Indonesia)
The House of Representatives of the Republic of Indonesia (People's Representative Council of the Republic of Indonesia, DPR-RI or simply DPR) is one of two elected chambers of the People's Consultative Assembly (MPR), the national legislature of Indonesia.
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Hsiao Bi-khim
Hsiao Bi-khim (born Bi-khim Louise Hsiao on 7 August 1971) is a Taiwanese politician and diplomat.
Hsieh Su-wei
Hsieh Su-wei (born 4 January 1986) is a Taiwanese professional tennis player.
Hsu Tzong-li
Hsu Tzong-li (born 10 February 1956) is a Taiwanese judge who has served as the Chief Justice (President of the Judicial Yuan) of Taiwan since 2016.
Huadong Valley
The Huadong Valley or Hualien–Taitung Valley, also known as East Rift Valley, the Longitudinal Valley or as the during the era of Japanese rule, is a long and narrow valley located between the Central Mountain Range and the Coastal Mountain Range of eastern Taiwan, stretching about from Hualien City at the north to Taitung City at the south..
Hui people
The Hui people (回族|p.
Human capital flight
Human capital flight is the emigration or immigration of individuals who have received advanced training at home.
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Human development (economics)
Human development involves studies of the human condition with its core being the capability approach.
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Human Development Report
The Human Development Report (HDR) is an annual Human Development Index report published by the Human Development Report Office of the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP).
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Human Rights Day
Human Rights Day (HRD) is celebrated annually around the world on 10 December every year.
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Humanists International
Humanists International (known as the International Humanist and Ethical Union, or IHEU, from 1952–2019) is an international non-governmental organisation championing secularism and human rights, motivated by secular humanist values.
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Hunting
Hunting is the human practice of seeking, pursuing, capturing, and killing wildlife or feral animals.
Hyperinflation
In economics, hyperinflation is a very high and typically accelerating inflation.
Identity politics
Identity politics is politics based on a particular identity, such as ethnicity, race, nationality, religion, denomination, gender, sexual orientation, social background, caste, and social class.
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Imperial examination
The imperial examination was a civil service examination system in Imperial China administered for the purpose of selecting candidates for the state bureaucracy.
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Imperial Japanese Navy
The Imperial Japanese Navy (IJN; Kyūjitai: 大日本帝國海軍 Shinjitai: 大日本帝国海軍 'Navy of the Greater Japanese Empire', or 日本海軍 Nippon Kaigun, 'Japanese Navy') was the navy of the Empire of Japan from 1868 to 1945, when it was dissolved following Japan's surrender in World War II.
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Import substitution industrialization
Import substitution industrialization (ISI) is a trade and economic policy that advocates replacing foreign imports with domestic production.
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Index of Taiwan-related articles
Articles (arranged alphabetically) related to Taiwan include.
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Indonesia–Taiwan relations
Indonesia–Taiwan relations are foreign relations between Indonesia and Taiwan.
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Indonesian migrant worker
Indonesian migrant workers (PMI, formerly known as Tenaga Kerja Indonesia, TKI) are Indonesian citizens who work in countries outside of Indonesia.
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Inner Mongolia
Inner Mongolia, officially the Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, is an autonomous region of the People's Republic of China.
Integrated circuit
An integrated circuit (IC), also known as a microchip, computer chip, or simply chip, is a small electronic device made up of multiple interconnected electronic components such as transistors, resistors, and capacitors.
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Intel
Intel Corporation is an American multinational corporation and technology company headquartered in Santa Clara, California, and incorporated in Delaware.
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International Children's Games
The International Children's Games (ICG) is an International Olympic Committee-sanctioned event held every year where children from cities around the world and between the ages of 12 and 15 participate in a variety of sports and cultural activities.
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International Futures
International Futures (IFs) is a global integrated assessment model designed to help with thinking strategically and systematically about key global systems (economic, demographic, education, health, environment, technology, domestic governance, infrastructure, agriculture, energy and environment).
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International Institute for Democracy and Electoral Assistance
The International Institute for Democracy and Electoral Assistance (International IDEA) is an intergovernmental organization that works to support and strengthen democratic institutions and processes around the world, to develop sustainable, effective and legitimate democracies.
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International Monetary Fund
The International Monetary Fund (IMF) is a major financial agency of the United Nations, and an international financial institution funded by 190 member countries, with headquarters in Washington, D.C. It is regarded as the global lender of last resort to national governments, and a leading supporter of exchange-rate stability.
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International Olympic Committee
The International Olympic Committee (IOC; Comité international olympique, CIO) is a non-governmental sports organisation based in Lausanne, Switzerland.
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Irreligion
Irreligion is the absence or rejection of religious beliefs or practices.
Islam in Taiwan
Islam is a minor religion in Taiwan and it represents about 0.3% of the population.
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Island arc
Island arcs are long chains of active volcanoes with intense seismic activity found along convergent tectonic plate boundaries.
Israel
Israel, officially the State of Israel, is a country in the Southern Levant, West Asia. Taiwan and Israel are republics and states with limited recognition.
Israel Council on Foreign Relations
The Israel Council on Foreign Relations (ICFR) is an independent, non-partisan forum for the study and debate of foreign policy issues, especially those relating to the State of Israel and the Jewish people.
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Jade
Jade is an umbrella term for two different types of decorative rocks used for jewelry or ornaments.
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Jan Huyghen van Linschoten
Jan Huygen van Linschoten (1563 – 8 February 1611) was a Dutch spy, merchant, traveller and writer.
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Japan
Japan is an island country in East Asia, located in the Pacific Ocean off the northeast coast of the Asian mainland. Taiwan and Japan are east Asian countries, island countries and northeast Asian countries.
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Japanese Instrument of Surrender
The Japanese Instrument of Surrender was the written agreement that formalized the surrender of the Empire of Japan, marking the end of hostilities in World War II.
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Japanese invasion of Taiwan (1874)
The Japanese punitive expedition to Taiwan in 1874, referred to in Japan as the and in Taiwan and Mainland China as the Mudan incident, was a punitive expedition launched by the Japanese ostensibly in retaliation for the murder of 54 Ryukyuan sailors by Paiwan aborigines near the southwestern tip of Taiwan in December 1871.
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Japanization
Japanization or Japanisation is the process by which Japanese culture dominates, assimilates, or influences other cultures.
Jay Chou
Jay Chou (born 18 January 1979) is a Taiwanese singer, songwriter, and musician.
Jiang Nan subtropical evergreen forests
The Jiang Nan subtropical evergreen forests ecoregion (WWF ID: IM0118) covers the mountainous divide between the lower Yangtze River and the coastal plain of South China.
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Jinjiang, Quanzhou
Jinjiang City is a county-level city under Quanzhou City, Fujian Province, China.
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Jinshan Nuclear Power Plant
The Jinshan Nuclear Power Plant or Chin Shan Nuclear Power Plant (金山核能發電廠), First Nuclear Power Plant (第一核能發電廠 or 核一), is a nuclear power plant being decommissioned in Shimen District, New Taipei, Taiwan.
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Joe Biden
Joseph Robinette Biden Jr. (born November 20, 1942) is an American politician who is the 46th and current president of the United States since 2021.
Judicial Yuan
The Judicial Yuan is the judicial branch of the government of Taiwan.
Judiciary
The judiciary (also known as the judicial system, judicature, judicial branch, judiciative branch, and court or judiciary system) is the system of courts that adjudicates legal disputes/disagreements and interprets, defends, and applies the law in legal cases.
Jury trial
A jury trial, or trial by jury, is a legal proceeding in which a jury makes a decision or findings of fact.
Kanakanavu people
The Kanakanavu are an indigenous people of central southern Taiwan.
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Kaohsiung
Kaohsiung, officially Kaohsiung City, is a special municipality located in southern Taiwan.
Kaohsiung Incident
The Kaohsiung Incident, also known as the Formosa Incident, the Meilidao Incident, or the Formosa Magazine incident,tang was a crackdown on pro-democracy demonstrations that occurred in Kaohsiung, Taiwan, on 10 December 1979 during Taiwan's martial law period.
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Kaohsiung International Airport
Kaohsiung International Airport is a medium-sized international airport in Siaogang District, Kaohsiung, Taiwan, also known as Siaogang Airport.
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Kaohsiung Metro
Kaohsiung Metro is a rapid transit and light rail system covering the metropolitan area of Kaohsiung, Taiwan.
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Karaoke
Karaoke (カラオケ, clipped compound of Japanese kara 空 "empty" and ōkesutora オーケストラ "orchestra") is a type of interactive entertainment system usually offered in clubs and bars, where people sing along to pre-recorded accompaniment using a microphone.
Kavalan people
The Kavalan (endonym kbalan; "people living in the plain") or Kuvalan are an indigenous people of Taiwan.
Keelung
Keelung (Hokkien: Ke-lâng), Chilung or Jilong, officially known as Keelung City, is a major port city situated in the northeastern part of Taiwan. Taiwan and Keelung are Taiwan placenames originating from Formosan languages.
Khòng-bah-pn̄g
Khòng-bah-pn̄g (Taiwanese: khòng-bah-pn̄g, alternatively 焢肉飯, 爌肉飯), as known as Braised pork rice, is a gaifan dish found in Fujianese cuisine and Taiwanese cuisine.
Kingdom of Middag
The Kingdom of Middag, also known as the Kingdom of Dadu, was a supra-tribal alliance located in the central-western plains of Taiwan in the 17th century.
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Kingdom of Tungning
The Kingdom of Tungning, also known as Tywan by the English at the time, was a dynastic maritime state that ruled part of southwestern Taiwan and the Penghu islands between 1661 and 1683. Taiwan and Kingdom of Tungning are island countries.
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Kinmen
Kinmen, alternatively known as Quemoy, is a group of islands governed as a county by the Republic of China (Taiwan), only east from the city of Xiamen in Fujian, located at the southeastern coast of the People's Republic of China, from which they are separated by Xiamen Bay.
Kinmen County Government
The Kinmen County Government is the local government of the Republic of China that governs Kinmen County.
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Koah-pau
Koah-pau or gua bao, also known as a pork belly bun, bao, or bao bun, is a type of lotus leaf bun originating from Fujianese cuisine in China.
Korean War
The Korean War was fought between North Korea and South Korea; it began on 25 June 1950 when North Korea invaded South Korea and ceased upon an armistice on 27 July 1953.
Korfball
Korfball (korfbal) is a ball sport, with similarities to netball and basketball.
Koxinga
Zheng Chenggong, Prince of Yanping (27 August 1624 – 23 June 1662), better known internationally as Koxinga, was a Southern Ming general who resisted the Qing conquest of China in the 17th century, fighting them on China's southeastern coast.
Kun Shan University
Kun Shan University (KSU) is a private university in Yongkang District, Tainan, Taiwan.
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Kuomintang
The Kuomintang (KMT), also referred to as the Guomindang (GMD), the Nationalist Party of China (NPC) or the Chinese Nationalist Party (CNP), is a major political party in the Republic of China, initially based on the Chinese mainland and then in Taiwan since 1949. Taiwan and Kuomintang are 1912 establishments in China and republic of China.
Kuomintang Islamic insurgency
The Kuomintang Islamic insurgency was a continuation of the Chinese Civil War by Chinese Muslim Kuomintang Republic of China Army forces mainly in Northwest China, in the provinces of Gansu, Qinghai, Ningxia, and Xinjiang, and another insurgency in Yunnan.
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Kwang-chih Chang
Kwang-chih Chang (15 April, 1931 – January 3, 2001), commonly known as K. C. Chang, was a Chinese / Taiwanese-American archaeologist and sinologist.
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Kyodo News
is a nonprofit cooperative news agency based in Minato, Tokyo.
Lai Ching-te
Lai Ching-te (born 6 October 1959), also known as William Lai, is a Taiwanese politician and former physician who is currently serving as the 8th president of the Republic of China since May 2024.
Land reform in Taiwan
After the Republic of China's central government fled to Taiwan in 1949, the government enacted a series of land reforms on the island throughout the 1950s and 1960s.
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Lantern Festival
The Lantern Festival (hp), also called Shangyuan Festival (hp) and Cap Go Meh (poj), is a Chinese traditional festival celebrated on the fifteenth day of the first month in the lunisolar Chinese calendar, during the full moon.
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Late Pleistocene
The Late Pleistocene is an unofficial age in the international geologic timescale in chronostratigraphy, also known as the Upper Pleistocene from a stratigraphic perspective.
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Law of Taiwan
The law of the Republic of China as applied in Taiwan, Penghu, Kinmen, and Matsu is based on civil law with its origins in the modern Japanese and German legal systems.
Lee Teng-hui
Lee Teng-hui (15 January 192330 July 2020) was a Taiwanese statesman and agriculturist who served as the 4th president of the Republic of China (Taiwan) under the 1947 Constitution and chairman of the Kuomintang (KMT) from 1988 to 2000.
Legislative Yuan
The Legislative Yuan is the unicameral legislature of the Republic of China (Taiwan) located in Taipei.
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Legislature
A legislature is a deliberative assembly with the legal authority to make laws for a political entity such as a country, nation or city.
LGBT
is an initialism that stands for "lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender".
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Liberty Times
The Liberty Times is a national newspaper published in Taiwan.
Lieyu
Lieyu Township (Liehyu) (pinyin: Lièyǔ Xiāng; Hokkien POJ: Lia̍t-sū-hiong) is a rural township in Kinmen County (Quemoy), Fujian Province, Republic of China (Taiwan).
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Life of Pi (film)
Life of Pi is a 2012 adventure-drama film directed and produced by Ang Lee and written by David Magee.
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Lin Shuangwen rebellion
The Lin Shuangwen rebellion occurred in 17871788 in Taiwan under the rule of the Qing dynasty.
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Linguistic homeland
In historical linguistics, the homeland or Urheimat (from German ur- "original" and Heimat, home) of a proto-language is the region in which it was spoken before splitting into different daughter languages.
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List of common Japanese surnames
Officially, among Japanese names there are 291,129 different, as determined by their kanji, although many of these are pronounced and romanized similarly.
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List of countries and dependencies by area
This is a list of the world's countries and their dependencies by land, water, and total area, ranked by total area.
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List of countries and dependencies by population density
This is a list of countries and dependencies ranked by population density, sorted by inhabitants per square kilometre or square mile.
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List of countries by foreign-exchange reserves
Foreign exchange reserves, also called Forex reserves, in a strict sense, are foreign-currency deposits held by nationals and monetary authorities.
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List of countries by GDP (nominal)
Gross domestic product (GDP) is the market value of all final goods and services from a nation in a given year.
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List of countries by GDP (PPP)
GDP (PPP) means gross domestic product based on purchasing power parity.
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List of islands by highest point
This is a list of islands in the world ordered by their highest point; it lists islands with peaks by elevation.
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List of islands of Taiwan
The islands comprising the Taiwan Area under the jurisdiction of the Republic of China (ROC) are classified into various island groups.
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List of Major League Baseball players from Taiwan
This is a list of players from Taiwan in Major League Baseball.
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List of presidents of the Judicial Yuan
This is a list of presidents of the Judicial Yuan of the Republic of China.
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Literacy
Literacy is the ability to read and write.
Liu Mingchuan
Liu Mingchuan (1836–1896), courtesy name Xingsan, was a Chinese military general and politician during the late Qing dynasty.
Liuqiu (medieval)
Liuqiu or Lewchew was a realm said to have existed in the East China Sea.
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Lunisolar calendar
A lunisolar calendar is a calendar in many cultures, incorporating lunar calendars and solar calendars.
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Luoyang
Luoyang is a city located in the confluence area of the Luo River and the Yellow River in the west of Henan province.
Lust, Caution
Lust, Caution is a 2007 erotic period espionage romantic mystery film directed by Ang Lee, based on the 1979 novella of the same name by Eileen Chang.
Luzon
Luzon is the largest and most populous island in the Philippines.
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Luzon Strait
The Luzon Strait (Tagalog: Kipot ng Luzon) is the strait between Luzon and Taiwan.
Luzon Volcanic Arc
The Luzon Volcanic Arc is a chain of volcanoes in a north–south line across the Luzon Strait from Taiwan to Luzon.
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Ma Ying-jeou
Ma Ying-jeou (t; born 13 July 1950) is a Taiwanese politician who served as the 6th president of the Republic of China from 2008 to 2016.
Made in China 2025
Made in China 2025.
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Mainland Affairs Council
The Mainland Affairs Council (MAC) is a cabinet-level administrative agency under the Executive Yuan of the Republic of China (Taiwan).
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Mainland China
Mainland China is the territory under direct administration of the People's Republic of China (PRC) in the aftermath of the Chinese Civil War.
Major League Baseball
Major League Baseball (MLB) is a professional baseball league and the highest level of organized baseball in the United States and Canada.
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Major non-NATO ally
A major non-NATO ally (MNNA) is a designation given by the United States government to countries that have strategic working relationships with the U.S. Armed Forces while not being members of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO).
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Manchu people
The Manchus are a Tungusic East Asian ethnic group native to Manchuria in Northeast Asia.
Maritime Southeast Asia
Maritime Southeast Asia comprises the countries of Brunei, Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines, Singapore, and East Timor.
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Market capitalization
Market capitalization, sometimes referred to as market cap, is the total value of a publicly traded company's outstanding common shares owned by stockholders.
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Martial law
Martial law is the replacement of civilian government by military rule and the suspension of civilian legal processes for military powers.
Martial law in Taiwan
Martial law in Taiwan refers to the periods in the history of Taiwan after World War II, during control by the Republic of China Armed Forces of the Kuomintang-led regime.
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Masanosuke Watanabe
was a member of the Japanese Communist Party.
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Mass media in Taiwan
The mass media in Taiwan is considered to be one of the freest and most competitive in Asia.
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Matej Bel University
Matej Bel University (commonly referred as Matej Bel or UMB), (Univerzita Mateja Bela) is a public research university in the central Slovak town of Banská Bystrica.
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Matriarchy
Matriarchy is a social system in which positions of responsibility, dominance and privilege are held by women.
Matsu dialect
The Matsu dialect (Eastern Min: / 馬祖話) is the local dialect of Matsu Islands, Taiwan.
Matsu Islands
The Matsu Islands, officially Lienchiang County, are an archipelago of 36 islands and islets in the East China Sea governed by the Republic of China (Taiwan), situated alongside the southeastern coast of mainland China.
May Fourth Movement
The May Fourth Movement was a Chinese cultural and anti-imperialist political movement which grew out of student protests in Beijing on May 4, 1919.
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Mayday (Taiwanese band)
Mayday is a Taiwanese rock band formed in 1997.
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Member states of the United Nations
The member states of the United Nations comprise sovereign states.
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Miaoli County
Miaoli County (Mandarin Pinyin: miáo lì xiàn; Hakka PFS: Mèu-li̍t-yen; Hokkien POJ: Biâu-le̍k-koān or Miâu-le̍k-koān) is a county in western Taiwan. Taiwan and Miaoli County are Taiwan placenames originating from Formosan languages.
Michelin Guide
The Michelin Guides are a series of guide books that have been published by the French tyre company Michelin since 1900.
Military budget
A military budget (or military expenditure), also known as a defense budget, is the amount of financial resources dedicated by a state to raising and maintaining an armed forces or other methods essential for defense purposes.
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Ming dynasty
The Ming dynasty, officially the Great Ming, was an imperial dynasty of China, ruling from 1368 to 1644 following the collapse of the Mongol-led Yuan dynasty.
Ministry of Justice (Taiwan)
The Ministry of Justice (MOJ) is a ministerial level body of the government of the Republic of China (Taiwan), responsible for carrying out various regulatory and prosecutorial functions.
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Ministry of Transportation and Communications (Taiwan)
The Ministry of Transportation and Communications (MOTC) is a cabinet-level governmental body of the Republic of China (Taiwan), in charge of all policy and regulation of transportation and communications networks and administration of all transportation and communications operations and enterprises in Taiwan. Taiwan and Ministry of Transportation and Communications (Taiwan) are 1912 establishments in China.
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Molecular Biology and Evolution
Molecular Biology and Evolution (MBE) is a monthly peer-reviewed scientific journal published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the Society for Molecular Biology and Evolution.
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Mongolia
Mongolia is a landlocked country in East Asia, bordered by Russia to the north and China to the south. Taiwan and Mongolia are east Asian countries, northeast Asian countries and republics.
Mongolian and Tibetan Affairs Commission
The Mongolian and Tibetan Affairs Commission (MTAC) was a ministry-level commission of the Executive Yuan in the Republic of China. Taiwan and Mongolian and Tibetan Affairs Commission are 1912 establishments in China.
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Multi-party system
In political science, a multi-party system is a political system where more than two meaningfully-distinct political parties regularly run for office and win elections.
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Multi-sport event
A multi-sport event is an organized sporting event, often held over multiple days, featuring competition in many different sports among organized teams of athletes from (mostly) nation-states.
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Multiculturalism
The term multiculturalism has a range of meanings within the contexts of sociology, political philosophy, and colloquial use.
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Musha Incident
The Musha Incident, also known as the Wushe Rebellion and several other similar names, began in October 1930 and was the last major uprising against colonial Japanese forces in Japanese Taiwan.
Music of Taiwan
The music of Taiwan reflects the diverse culture of Taiwanese people.
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Mutual Defense Treaty between the United States and the Republic of China
The Mutual Defense Treaty between the United States and the Republic of China (formally known as Mutual Defense Treaty between the United States of America and the Republic of China), was a defense pact signed between the United States and the Republic of China (Taiwan) effective from 1955 to 1980.
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Mutual non-recognition of sovereignty and mutual non-denial of authority to govern
"Mutual non-recognition of sovereignty and mutual non-denial of authority to govern" is former President of the Republic of China Ma Ying-jeou's description of the relations between the Taiwan Area and Mainland China, as presented in his second inauguration speech after being re-elected in 2012.
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Nanjing
Nanjing is the capital of Jiangsu province in eastern China. The city has 11 districts, an administrative area of, and a population of 9,423,400. Situated in the Yangtze River Delta region, Nanjing has a prominent place in Chinese history and culture, having served as the capital of various Chinese dynasties, kingdoms and republican governments dating from the 3rd century to 1949, and has thus long been a major center of culture, education, research, politics, economy, transport networks and tourism, being the home to one of the world's largest inland ports.
Nanjing decade
The Nanjing decade (also Nanking decade,, or the Golden decade) is an informal name for the decade from 1927 (or 1928) to 1937 in the Republic of China.
National Anthem of the Republic of China
The "National Anthem of the Republic of China", also known by its incipit "Three Principles of the People", is the national anthem of the Republic of China, commonly called Taiwan, as well as the party anthem of the Kuomintang.
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National Assembly (Republic of China)
The National Assembly was the authoritative legislative body of the Republic of China, from 1947 to 2005.
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National Chengchi University
National Chengchi University is a public research university in Taipei.
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National Development Council (Taiwan)
The National Development Council (NDC) is the policy-planning agency of the Executive Yuan of Taiwan.
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National Flag Anthem of the Republic of China
The National Flag Anthem of the Republic of China is a patriotic song typically played during the raising and lowering of the flag of the Republic of China.
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National Freeway 1
National Freeway 1, also known as Sun Yat-sen Freeway, is a freeway in Taiwan, the first freeway built in Taiwan.
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National Human Rights Commission (Taiwan)
The National Human Rights Commission of Taiwan was founded on August 1, 2020 as Taiwan’s national human rights institution.
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National language
A national language is a language (or language variant, e.g. dialect) that has some connection—de facto or de jure—with a nation.
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National Palace Museum
The National Palace Museum is a museum in Taipei, Taiwan.
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National Revolutionary Army
The National Revolutionary Army (NRA), sometimes shortened to Revolutionary Army before 1928, and as National Army after 1928, was the military arm of the Kuomintang (KMT, or the Chinese Nationalist Party) from 1925 until 1947 in China during the Republican era.
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National sport
A national sport is a physical activity or sport that is culturally significant or deeply embedded in a nation, serving as a national symbol and an intrinsic element to a nation's identity and culture.
National Taiwan Normal University
National Taiwan Normal University (NTNU) is a national comprehensive university in Taipei and New Taipei City, Taiwan.
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National Taiwan University
National Taiwan University (NTU) is a national comprehensive public research university in Taipei, Taiwan.
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National Unification Council
The National Unification Council was a nonstatutory governmental agency of the Republic of China on Taiwan established on 7 October 1990.
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National University of Singapore
The National University of Singapore (NUS) is a national public collegiate and research university in Singapore.
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NBC News
NBC News is the news division of the American broadcast television network NBC.
Negrito
The term Negrito refers to several diverse ethnic groups who inhabit isolated parts of Southeast Asia and the Andaman Islands.
New Party (Taiwan)
The New Party (NP;; Hakka: Sîn Tóng), formerly the Chinese New Party (CNP), is a Chinese nationalist political party in the Republic of China (Taiwan).
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New Power Party
The New Power Party (NPP) is a political party in Taiwan formed in early 2015.
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New Southbound Policy
The New Southbound Policy is an initiative of the Government of the Republic of China (Taiwan) under President Tsai Ing-wen that aims to enhance cooperation and exchange between Taiwan and 18 countries in Southeast Asia, South Asia and Australasia.
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New Taipei City
New Taipei City is a special municipality located in northern Taiwan.
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New Taipei City Wan Jin Shi Marathon
The New Taipei City Wan Jin Shi Marathon is the first and only one IAAF Silver Label Road Race in Taiwan.
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New Taipei Metro
New Taipei Metro is a transit system serving New Taipei, Taiwan, operated by.
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New Taiwan dollar
The New Taiwan dollar (code: TWD; symbol: NT$, also abbreviated as NT) is the official currency of the Republic of China.
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News.com.au
News.com.au (stylised in all lowercase) is an Australian website owned by News Corp Australia.
Niaosung culture
The Niaosung culture was an archaeological culture in southern Taiwan.
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Night markets in Taiwan
Taiwanese night markets (p) are night markets in Taiwan that operate in urban or suburban areas between sunset and sunrise.
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Nike Hercules
The Nike Hercules, initially designated SAM-A-25 and later MIM-14, was a surface-to-air missile (SAM) used by U.S. and NATO armed forces for medium- and high-altitude long-range air defense. It was normally armed with the W31 nuclear warhead, but could also be fitted with a conventional warhead for export use.
Nikkei Asia
Nikkei Asia, known as Nikkei Asian Review between 2013 and 2020, is a major Japan-based English-language weekly news magazine focused on the Asian continent, although it also covers broader international developments.
Nine News
9News is the national news service of the Nine Network in Australia.
Nippon Professional Baseball
is a professional baseball league and the highest level of baseball in Japan.
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Observer Research Foundation
Observer Research Foundation (ORF) is an independent global think tank based in Delhi, India.
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OECD
The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD; Organisation de coopération et de développement économiques, OCDE) is an intergovernmental organisation with 38 member countries, founded in 1961 to stimulate economic progress and world trade.
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Official language
An official language is a language having certain rights to be used in defined situations.
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Official script
An official script is a writing system that is specifically designated to be official in the constitutions or other applicable laws of countries, states, and other jurisdictions.
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Okinawa Island
, officially, is the largest of the Okinawa Islands and the Ryukyu (Nansei) Islands of Japan in the Kyushu region.
Okinawa Plate
The Okinawa Plate, or Okinawa Platelet, is a minor continental tectonic plate in the northern and eastern hemispheres stretching from the northern end of Taiwan to the southern tip of the island of Kyūshū.
Old Chinese
Old Chinese, also called Archaic Chinese in older works, is the oldest attested stage of Chinese, and the ancestor of all modern varieties of Chinese.
Olympic Games
The modern Olympic Games or Olympics (Jeux olympiques) are the leading international sporting events featuring summer and winter sports competitions in which thousands of athletes from around the world participate in a variety of competitions.
One China
One China is a phrase describing the international relationship between the People's Republic of China (PRC), situated on the Chinese Mainland, and the Republic of China (ROC), commonly known as Taiwan.
One Country on Each Side
One Country on Each Side is a concept originating in the Democratic Progressive Party government led by Chen Shui-bian, the former president of the Republic of China (2000–2008), regarding the political status of Taiwan.
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One country, two systems
"One country, two systems" is a constitutional principle of the People's Republic of China (PRC) describing the governance of the special administrative regions of Hong Kong and Macau.
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One-party state
A one-party state, single-party state, one-party system or single-party system is a governance structure in which only a single political party controls the ruling system.
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Orbis (journal)
Orbis is the Foreign Policy Research Institute's (FPRI) quarterly journal of world affairs.
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Outer Mongolia
Outer Mongolia was the name of a territory in the Manchu-led Qing dynasty of China from 1691 to 1911. It corresponds to the modern-day independent state of Mongolia and the Russian republic of Tuva. The historical region gained ''de facto'' independence from Qing China during the Xinhai Revolution.
Outline of Taiwan
The following outline is provided as an overview of and topical guide to Taiwan: Taiwan – a country in East Asia, officially named the Republic of China (ROC).
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Overseas Chinese
Overseas Chinese people are those of Chinese birth or ethnicity who reside outside mainland China, Taiwan, Hong Kong and Macau.
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Oyster vermicelli
Oyster vermicelli or oyster misua (traditional Chinese: 蚵仔麵線; Taiwanese Hokkien: ô-á mī-sòaⁿ) is a kind of noodle soup originating in Taiwan.
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P. League+
The P. League+ (stylized as P. LEAGUE+, abbreviated as PLG), pronounced as Plus League, is a Taiwanese men's professional basketball league founded in 2020.
Pacific Ocean
The Pacific Ocean is the largest and deepest of Earth's five oceanic divisions.
Paiwan people
The Paiwan (Kacalisian) are an indigenous people of Taiwan.
Paleolithic
The Paleolithic or Palaeolithic, also called the Old Stone Age, is a period in human prehistory that is distinguished by the original development of stone tools, and which represents almost the entire period of human prehistoric technology.
Pan-Blue Coalition
The pan-Blue coalition, pan-Blue force or pan-Blue groups is a political coalition in the Republic of China (Taiwan) consisting of the Kuomintang (KMT), People First Party (PFP), New Party (CNP), Non-Partisan Solidarity Union (NPSU), and Young China Party (YCP).
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Pan-Green Coalition
The pan-Green coalition, pan-Green force or pan-Green groups is a nationalist political coalition in Taiwan (Republic of China), consisting of the Democratic Progressive Party (DPP), Taiwan Statebuilding Party (TSP), Social Democratic Party (SDP), Green Party Taiwan, Taiwan Solidarity Union (TSU), and Taiwan Constitution Association (TCA).
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Penghu
The Penghu (Hokkien POJ: Phîⁿ-ô͘ or Phêⁿ-ô͘) or Pescadores Islands are an archipelago of 90 islands and islets in the Taiwan Strait, located approximately west of the main island of Taiwan across the Penghu Channel, covering an area of.
Penghu County Government
The Penghu County Government is the local government of Penghu County, Taiwan.
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Penguin Books
Penguin Books Limited is a British publishing house.
People First Party (Taiwan)
The People First Party (PFP) is a centrist or centre-right political party in Taiwan.
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People's Liberation Army
The People's Liberation Army (PLA) is the military of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) and the People's Republic of China.
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Peter Bellwood
Peter Stafford Bellwood (born Leicester, England, 1943) is Emeritus Professor of Archaeology in the School of Archaeology and Anthropology at the Australian National University (ANU) in Canberra.
Pew Research Center
The Pew Research Center (also simply known as Pew) is a nonpartisan American think tank based in Washington, D.C. It provides information on social issues, public opinion, and demographic trends shaping the United States and the world.
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Philippine jade culture
Philippine jade culture, or jade artifacts, made from white and green nephrite and dating as far back as 2000–1500 BC, have been discovered at a number of archaeological excavations in the Philippines since the 1930s.
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Philippine Mobile Belt
In the geology of the Philippines, the Philippine Mobile Belt is a complex portion of the tectonic boundary between the Eurasian Plate and the Philippine Sea Plate, comprising most of the country of the Philippines.
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Philippine Sea
The Philippine Sea is a marginal sea of the Western Pacific Ocean east of the Philippine Archipelago (hence the name) and the largest sea in the world, occupying an estimated surface area of.
Philippine Sea Plate
The Philippine Sea Plate or the Philippine Plate is a tectonic plate comprising oceanic lithosphere that lies beneath the Philippine Sea, to the east of the Philippines.
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Philippines
The Philippines, officially the Republic of the Philippines, is an archipelagic country in Southeast Asia. Taiwan and Philippines are former Japanese colonies, island countries and republics.
Pinyin
Hanyu Pinyin, or simply pinyin, is the most common romanization system for Standard Chinese.
Place of worship
A place of worship is a specially designed structure or space where individuals or a group of people such as a congregation come to perform acts of devotion, veneration, or religious study.
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Plains Indigenous peoples
Plains indigenous peoples, also known as Pingpu people and previously as plain aborigines, are Taiwanese indigenous peoples originally residing in lowland regions, as opposed to Highland indigenous peoples.
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Political status of Taiwan
The controversy surrounding the political status of Taiwan or the Taiwan issue is an ongoing dispute on the political status of Taiwan, currently controlled by the Republic of China (ROC).
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Port of Anping
The Port of Anping is located in Tainan in South District and Anping District.
Port of Hualien
The Port of Hualien is an international port on the Pacific Ocean in Hualien City, Hualien County, Taiwan.
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Port of Kaohsiung
The Port of Kaohsiung (POK) is the largest harbor in Taiwan, handling approximately 10.26 million twenty-foot equivalent units (TEU) worth of cargo in 2015.
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Port of Keelung
The Port of Keelung, also known as Keelung Harbor, is located in the vicinity of Keelung City, Taiwan.
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Port of Taichung
The Port of Taichung, also Taichung Port, is a port located in Wuqi District, Taichung, Taiwan.
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Port of Taipei
The Port of Taipei or Taipei Harbor is a port in Bali District, New Taipei, Taiwan, and is the country's newest international port.
Portolan chart
Portolan charts are nautical charts, first made in the 13th century in the Mediterranean basin and later expanded to include other regions.
Portuguese Empire
The Portuguese Empire (Império Português), also known as the Portuguese Overseas or the Portuguese Colonial Empire, was composed of the overseas colonies, factories, and later overseas territories, governed by the Kingdom of Portugal, and later the Republic of Portugal.
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Portuguese language
Portuguese (português or, in full, língua portuguesa) is a Western Romance language of the Indo-European language family originating from the Iberian Peninsula of Europe.
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Portuguese people
The Portuguese people (– masculine – or Portuguesas) are a Romance-speaking ethnic group and nation indigenous to Portugal, a country in the west of the Iberian Peninsula in the south-west of Europe, who share a common culture, ancestry and language.
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Postage stamps and postal history of Taiwan
This is a survey of the postage stamps and postal history of Taiwan, otherwise known as Formosa, and currently governed by the Republic of China.
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Potsdam Declaration
The Potsdam Declaration, or the Proclamation Defining Terms for Japanese Surrender, was a statement that called for the surrender of all Japanese armed forces during World War II.
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Pratas Island
Pratas Island,, United States National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency also known as the Tungsha Islands or the Dongsha Islands, is a coral island situated in the northern part of the South China Sea administered as part of Cijin District, Kaohsiung, Republic of China.
Premier of the Republic of China
The premier of the Republic of China, officially the president of the Executive Yuan (Chinese: 行政院院長), is the head of the government of the Republic of China of Taiwan and leader of the Executive Yuan.
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President of the Legislative Yuan
The president of the Legislative Yuan is the presiding officer of the Legislative Yuan of the Republic of China.
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President of the Republic of China
The president of the Republic of China, also referred to as the president of Taiwan, is the head of state of the Republic of China (Taiwan) as well as the commander-in-chief of the Republic of China Armed Forces.
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Privatization
Privatization (rendered privatisation in British English) can mean several different things, most commonly referring to moving something from the public sector into the private sector.
Proclamation of the People's Republic of China
The proclamation of the People's Republic of China was made by Mao Zedong, the Chairman of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), on October 1, 1949, in Tiananmen Square in Beijing.
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Programme for International Student Assessment
The Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) is a worldwide study by the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) in member and non-member nations intended to evaluate educational systems by measuring 15-year-old school pupils' scholastic performance on mathematics, science, and reading.
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Prospective payment system
A prospective payment system (PPS) is a term used to refer to several payment methodologies for which means of determining insurance reimbursement is based on a predetermined payment regardless of the intensity of the actual service provided.
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Protestantism
Protestantism is a branch of Christianity that emphasizes justification of sinners through faith alone, the teaching that salvation comes by unmerited divine grace, the priesthood of all believers, and the Bible as the sole infallible source of authority for Christian faith and practice.
Provincial city (Taiwan)
An autonomous municipality, county-level city or city, previously provincial city, is a de jure second-level administrative division unit in the Republic of China (Taiwan).
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Putian dialect
The Putian dialect (Pu-Xian Min: / 莆田話) is a dialect of Pu-Xian Min Chinese spoken in urban area of Putian, which is a prefecture-level city in the southeast coast of Fujian province.
Puyuma people
The Puyuma, also known as the Pinuyumayan, Peinan or Beinan, are one of the indigenous groups of the Taiwanese aborigines.
Qianlong Emperor
The Qianlong Emperor (25 September 17117 February 1799), also known by his temple name Emperor Gaozong of Qing, personal name Hongli, was the fifth emperor of the Qing dynasty and the fourth Qing emperor to rule over China proper.
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Qing dynasty
The Qing dynasty, officially the Great Qing, was a Manchu-led imperial dynasty of China and the last imperial dynasty in Chinese history.
Qinghai
Qinghai is an inland province in Northwestern China. It is the largest province of China (excluding autonomous regions) by area and has the third smallest population. Its capital and largest city is Xining. Qinghai borders Gansu on the northeast, Xinjiang on the northwest, Sichuan on the southeast and the Tibet Autonomous Region on the southwest.
Raid on Taipei
The Taihoku Air Raid was the largest Allied air raid on the city of Taihoku (modern-day Taipei), then under Japanese colonial rule, during World War II.
Reconstructions of Old Chinese
Although Old Chinese is known from written records beginning around 1200 BC, the logographic script provides much more indirect and partial information about the pronunciation of the language than alphabetic systems used elsewhere.
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Religion in Taiwan
Religion in Taiwan is characterised by a diversity of religious beliefs and practices, predominantly those pertaining to the continued preservation of the ancient Chinese culture and religion.
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Republic of China (1912–1949)
The Republic of China (ROC), or simply China, as a sovereign state was based on mainland China from 1912 to 1949, when the government retreated to Taiwan, where it continues to be based. Taiwan and Republic of China (1912–1949) are 1912 establishments in China, republic of China and states and territories established in 1912.
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Republic of China Air Force
The Republic of China Air Force (ROCAF; known historically as the Chinese Air Force and colloquially as the Taiwanese Air Force) is the military aviation branch of the Republic of China Armed Forces, based in Taiwan since 1947.
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Republic of China Armed Forces
The Republic of China Armed Forces are the armed forces of the Republic of China (ROC) that once ruled Mainland China and now currently restricted to its territorial jurisdictions of Taiwan, Penghu, Kinmen and Matsu Islands.
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Republic of China Navy
The Republic of China Navy (ROCN; historically as the Chinese Navy or ROC Navy, colloquially the Taiwanese Navy) is the maritime branch of the Republic of China Armed Forces (ROCAF).
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Republic of Formosa
The Republic of Formosa was a short-lived republic that existed on the island of Taiwan in 1895 between the formal cession of Taiwan by the Qing dynasty of China to the Empire of Japan in the Treaty of Shimonoseki and its being taken over by Japanese troops. Taiwan and republic of Formosa are island countries.
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Retreat of the government of Republic of China to Taiwan
The retreat of the government of Republic of China to Taiwan, also known as the Kuomintang's retreat to Taiwan or the Great Retreat in Taiwan, refers to the exodus of the remnants of the then-internationally-recognized Kuomintang-ruled government of the Republic of China (ROC) to the island of Taiwan (Formosa) on December 7, 1949, after losing the Chinese Civil War in the Chinese mainland.
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Retrocession Day
Retrocession Day is the annual observance and former public holiday in Taiwan commemorating the end of Japanese rule of Taiwan and Penghu and the claimed retrocession ("return") of Taiwan to the Republic of China on 25 October 1945.
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Reuters
Reuters is a news agency owned by Thomson Reuters.
Revolt of the Three Feudatories
The Revolt of the Three Feudatories, also known as the Rebellion of Wu Sangui, was a rebellion lasting from 1673 to 1681 in early Qing dynasty of China, during the early reign of the Kangxi Emperor (r. 1661–1722).
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Robert Blust
Robert A. Blust (May 9, 1940 – January 5, 2022) was an American linguist who worked in several areas, including historical linguistics, lexicography and ethnology.
Routledge
Routledge is a British multinational publisher.
Rukai people
The Rukai (Rukai) are one of the indigenous people of Taiwan.
Ryukyu Islands
The, also known as the or the, are a chain of Japanese islands that stretch southwest from Kyushu to Taiwan: the Ōsumi, Tokara, Amami, Okinawa, and Sakishima Islands (further divided into the Miyako and Yaeyama Islands), with Yonaguni the westernmost.
Saaroa people
The Saaroa or Hla'alua people are an indigenous people of central southern Taiwan.
Saisiyat people
The Saisiyat (Hakka Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: 賽夏族(Sòi-hà-tshu̍k)), also spelled Saisiat, are an indigenous people of Taiwan.
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Sakizaya people
The Sakizaya (native name: Sakuzaya, literally "real man";; occasionally Sakiraya or Sakidaya) are Taiwanese indigenous peoples with a population of approximately 1,000.
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Samsung
Samsung Group (stylised as SΛMSUNG) is a South Korean multinational manufacturing conglomerate headquartered in Samsung Digital City, Suwon, South Korea.
Sanbeiji
Sanbeiji is a popular chicken dish in Chinese cuisine and one of the most iconic dishes of Jiangxi cuisine.
SARS
Severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) is a viral respiratory disease of zoonotic origin caused by the virus SARS-CoV-1, the first identified strain of the SARS-related coronavirus.
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Schweizer Radio und Fernsehen
Schweizer Radio und Fernsehen (SRF; "Swiss Radio and Television") is a Swiss broadcasting company created on 1 January 2011 through the merger of radio company Schweizer Radio DRS (SR DRS) and television company Schweizer Fernsehen (SF).
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Scooter (motorcycle)
A scooter (motor scooter) is a motorcycle with an underbone or step-through frame, a seat, a transmission that shifts without the operator having to operate a clutch lever, a platform for their feet, and with a method of operation that emphasizes comfort and fuel economy.
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Second Sino-Japanese War
The Second Sino-Japanese War was fought between the Republic of China and the Empire of Japan between 1937 and 1945, following a period of war localized to Manchuria that started in 1931.
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Second Taiwan Strait Crisis
The Second Taiwan Strait Crisis, also called the 1958 Taiwan Strait Crisis, was a conflict between the People's Republic of China (PRC) and the Republic of China (ROC).
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Seediq people
The Seediq (sometimes Sediq, Seejiq, pronounced) are a Taiwanese indigenous people who live primarily in Nantou County and Hualien County.
Seismic hazard
A seismic hazard is the probability that an earthquake will occur in a given geographic area, within a given window of time, and with ground motion intensity exceeding a given threshold.
Semi-presidential republic
A semi-presidential republic, or dual executive republic, is a republic in which a president exists alongside a prime minister and a cabinet, with the latter two being responsible to the legislature of the state.
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Semi-professional sports
Semi-professional sports are sports in which athletes are not participating on a full-time basis, but still receive some payment.
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Senkaku Islands
The Senkaku Islands, also known as the Pinnacle Islands or the Diaoyu Islands in China and as the Tiaoyutai Islands in Taiwan, are a group of uninhabited islands in the East China Sea, administered by Japan.
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Senkaku Islands dispute
The Senkaku Islands dispute, or Diaoyu Islands dispute, is a territorial dispute over a group of uninhabited islands known as the Senkaku Islands in Japan, the Diaoyu Islands in China, and Tiaoyutai Islands in Taiwan.
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Sense and Sensibility (film)
Sense and Sensibility is a 1995 period drama film directed by Ang Lee and based on Jane Austen's 1811 novel of the same name.
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Shi Lang
Shi Lang (1621–1696), Marquis Jinghai, also known as Secoe or Sego, was a Chinese admiral who served under the Ming and Qing dynasties in the 17th century.
Siege of Fort Zeelandia
The Siege of Fort Zeelandia of 1661–1662 ended the Dutch East India Company's rule over Taiwan and began the Kingdom of Tungning's rule over the island.
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Single-payer healthcare
Single-payer healthcare is a type of universal healthcare in which the costs of essential healthcare for all residents are covered by a single public system (hence "single-payer").
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Sino-American Joint Commission on Rural Reconstruction
Sino-American Joint Commission on Rural Reconstruction (JCRR) is a commission established in 1948 in mainland China.
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Sino-French War
The Sino-French War, also known as the Tonkin War, was a limited conflict fought from August 1884 to April 1885 between the French Third Republic and Qing China for influence in Vietnam. There was no declaration of war. The Chinese armies performed better than in their other nineteenth-century wars. Although French forces emerged victorious from most engagements, the Chinese scored noteworthy successes on land, notably forcing the French to hastily withdraw from occupied Lạng Sơn in the late stages of the war, thus regaining control of the town and its surroundings.
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Sino-Soviet Treaty of Friendship and Alliance
The Treaty of Friendship and Alliance (Traditional Chinese: 中蘇友好同盟條約) was a treaty signed by the National Government of the Republic of China and the Government of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics on 14 August 1945.
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Slash-and-burn
Slash-and-burn agriculture is a farming method that involves the cutting and burning of plants in a forest or woodland to create a field called a swidden.
Small and medium-sized enterprises
Small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) or small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) are businesses whose personnel and revenue numbers fall below certain limits.
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Social Indicators Research
Social Indicators Research, founded in 1974, is a journal that publishes research results dealing with the measurement of the quality of life.
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Softball
Softball is a popular variation of baseball, the difference being that it is played with a larger ball on a smaller field and with only underhand pitches (where the ball is released while the hand is primarily below the ball) permitted.
Softball at the 2022 World Games
The softball competition at the 2022 World Games took place from July 9–13, 2022, in Birmingham in United States, at the University of Alabama Birmingham.
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Songshan Airport
Taipei Songshan Airport is a regional airport and military airbase located in Songshan District, Taipei, Taiwan.
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South China Morning Post
The South China Morning Post (SCMP), with its Sunday edition, the Sunday Morning Post, is a Hong Kong-based English-language newspaper owned by Alibaba Group.
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South China Sea
The South China Sea is a marginal sea of the Western Pacific Ocean.
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South China Sea Islands
The South China Sea Islands consist of over 250 islands, atolls, cays, shoals, reefs and seamounts in the South China Sea.
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South Taiwan monsoon rain forests
The South Taiwan monsoon rain forests ecoregion (WWF ID: IM0171) covers the southern tip of Taiwan, 200 km east of the mainland.
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Southeast Asia
Southeast Asia is the geographical southeastern region of Asia, consisting of the regions that are situated south of China, east of the Indian subcontinent, and northwest of the Australian mainland, which is part of Oceania.
Spanish Empire
The Spanish Empire, sometimes referred to as the Hispanic Monarchy or the Catholic Monarchy, was a colonial empire that existed between 1492 and 1976.
Special municipality (Taiwan)
Special municipality, historically known as Yuan-controlled municipality, is a first-level administrative division unit in Taiwan.
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Spratly Islands
The Spratly Islands (Kapuluan ng Kalayaan; Mandarin p; Kepulauan Spratly; Quần đảo Trường Sa) are a disputed archipelago in the South China Sea.
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Standard Chinese
Standard Chinese is a modern standard form of Mandarin Chinese that was first codified during the republican era (1912‒1949).
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State Shinto
was Imperial Japan's ideological use of the Japanese folk religion and traditions of Shinto.
Straits Exchange Foundation
The Straits Exchange Foundation (SEF;; often abbreviated as 海基會) is a semiofficial organization set up by the Government of the Republic of China (Taiwan) to handle technical and/or business matters with the People's Republic of China (PRC).
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Subduction
Subduction is a geological process in which the oceanic lithosphere and some continental lithosphere is recycled into the Earth's mantle at convergent boundaries.
Submarine volcano
Submarine volcanoes are underwater vents or fissures in the Earth's surface from which magma can erupt.
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Sun Yat-sen
Sun Yat-sen (12 November 1866 – 12 March 1925),Singtao daily.
Sunflower Student Movement
The Sunflower Student Movement is associated with a protest movement driven by a coalition of students and civic groups that came to a head between March 18 and April 10, 2014, in the Legislative Yuan and later, the Executive Yuan of Taiwan.
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Super Basketball League
The Super Basketball League (超級籃球聯賽), often abbreviated as the SBL, is a men's developmental basketball league in Taiwan.
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Supreme Court of the Republic of China
The Supreme Court of the Republic of China is the court of last resort in the Republic of China (Taiwan), except matters regarding interpretation of the Constitution and unifying the interpretation of laws and orders which are decided by the Constitutional Court of the Judicial Yuan.
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Surrender of Japan
The surrender of the Empire of Japan in World War II was announced by Emperor Hirohito on 15 August and formally signed on 2 September 1945, ending the war.
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T1 League
The T1 League (T1聯盟) was a defunct professional basketball league in Taiwan.
Table tennis
Table tennis (also known as ping-pong or whiff-whaff) is a racket sport derived from tennis but distinguished by its playing surface being atop a stationary table, rather than the court on which players stand.
Taekwondo
Taekwondo is a Korean martial art and combat sport involving punching and kicking techniques.
Taekwondo at the 2004 Summer Olympics
Taekwondo at the 2004 Summer Olympics were held in the Sports Pavilion at the Faliro Coastal Zone Olympic Complex in Athens, Greece where 124 competitors competed in eight events, four each for men and women.
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Tahu culture
The Tahu culture was an archaeological culture in southern Taiwan.
Tai Tzu-ying
Tai Tzu-ying (born 20 June 1994) is a Taiwanese badminton player.
Taichung International Airport
Taichung International Airport, is an international airport located in Taichung, Taiwan, which is used for both commercial and military purposes.
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Taichung Metro
The Taichung MRT (also called Taichung Mass Rail Transit or Taichung Metro) is a medium-capacity rapid transit system in Taichung, Taiwan.
Tainan
Tainan, officially Tainan City, is a special municipality in southern Taiwan facing the Taiwan Strait on its western coast.
Tainan City Government
The Tainan City Government is the municipal government of Tainan, Taiwan.
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Taipei
Taipei, officially Taipei City, is the capital and a special municipality of Taiwan.
Taipei Economic and Cultural Representative Office
The Taipei Economic and Cultural Representative Office (TECRO), also known as Taipei Economic and Cultural Office (TECO), Taipei Representative Office (TRO) or Taipei Mission, is an alternative diplomatic institution serving as a ''de facto'' embassy or a consulate of the Republic of China (ROC, commonly referred to as Taiwan) to exercise the foreign affairs and consular services in specific countries which have established formal diplomatic relations with the People's Republic of China (PRC, commonly referred to as China).
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Taipei Marathon
The Taipei Marathon (臺北馬拉松) is an annual marathon held in Taipei, Taiwan, on the third weekend in December.
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Taipei Metro
Taipei Metro (also known as Taipei Mass Rapid Transit (MRT) and branded as Metro Taipei) is a rapid transit system operated by the Taipei Rapid Transit Corporation serving the capital Taipei and New Taipei City in Taiwan.
Taipei Open (badminton)
The Taipei Open, formerly named the Chinese Taipei Open Grand Prix Gold (2007–2017) and Chinese Taipei Open (2018–2019), is an open badminton international championships held in Taiwan since the 1970s, but they took place only in irregular periods.
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Taipei Times
The Taipei Times is the last surviving English-language print newspaper in Taiwan.
Taipei–Keelung metropolitan area
The Taipei–Keelung metropolitan area also commonly known as Greater Taipei Area is the largest metropolitan area in Taiwan.
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Taiping Island
Taiping Island, also known as Itu Aba, and various other names, is the largest of the naturally occurring Spratly Islands in the South China Sea.
Taitung County
Taitung County (Paiwan: Valangaw) is the third largest county in Taiwan, located primarily on the island's southeastern coast and also including Green Island, Orchid Island and Lesser Orchid Island.
Taivoan people
The Taivoan or Tevorangh are a Taiwanese indigenous people.
Taiwan
Taiwan, officially the Republic of China (ROC), is a country in East Asia. Taiwan and Taiwan are 1912 establishments in China, countries and territories where Chinese is an official language, east Asian countries, former Japanese colonies, island countries, northeast Asian countries, republic of China, republics, states and territories established in 1912, states with limited recognition and Taiwan placenames originating from Formosan languages.
Taiwan Affairs Office
The Taiwan Affairs Office is an administrative agency under the State Council of the People's Republic of China (PRC).
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Taiwan Centers for Disease Control
The Taiwan Centers for Disease Control (CDC) is the agency of the Ministry of Health and Welfare of Republic of China (Taiwan) that combats the threat of communicable diseases.
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Taiwan Foundation for Democracy
The Taiwan Foundation for Democracy (TFD) is a non-partisan non-profit organisation headquartered in Taipei.
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Taiwan High Speed Rail
Taiwan High Speed Rail (THSR) is the high-speed railway of Taiwan consisting of one line that runs approximately along the west coast, from the capital Taipei to the southern city of Kaohsiung.
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Taiwan independence movement
The Taiwan independence movement is a political movement which advocates the formal declaration of an independent and sovereign Taiwanese state, as opposed to Chinese unification or the status quo in Cross-Strait relations.
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Taiwan Miracle
The Taiwan Miracle or Taiwan Economic Miracle refers to Taiwan's rapid economic development to a developed, high-income country during the latter half of the twentieth century.
Taiwan News
Taiwan News (formerly China News) is an English-language online newspaper and former print newspaper in the Republic of China (Taiwan).
Taiwan passport
The Republic of China (Taiwan) passport is the passport issued to nationals of the Republic of China (ROC, commonly known as Taiwan).
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Taiwan People's Party
The Taiwan People's Party (TPP) is a centre-left political party in Taiwan.
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Taiwan Prefecture
Taiwan Prefecture or Taiwanfu was a prefecture of Taiwan during the Qing dynasty.
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Taiwan Pride
Taiwan Pride is the annual LGBTQ pride parade in Taiwan.
Taiwan Province
Taiwan Province (PFS: Thòi-vàn-sén or Thòi-vân-sén) is a de jure administrative division of the Republic of China (ROC).
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Taiwan Railways Administration
Taiwan Railways Administration (TRA) was a governmental agency in Taiwan which operated Taiwan Railway from 1948 to 2023.
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Taiwan Relations Act
The Taiwan Relations Act (TRA) is an act of the United States Congress. Since the formal recognition of the People's Republic of China, the Act has defined the officially substantial but non-diplomatic relations between the United States of America and Taiwan (Republic of China).
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Taiwan Sign Language
Taiwan Sign Language (TSL) is the sign language most commonly used by the deaf and hard of hearing in Taiwan.
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Taiwan Statebuilding Party
The Taiwan Statebuilding Party (TSP; poj) is a political party in the Republic of China (Taiwan).
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Taiwan Strait
The Taiwan Strait is a -wide strait separating the island of Taiwan and the Asian continent. The strait is part of the South China Sea and connects to the East China Sea to the north. The narrowest part is wide. The Taiwan Strait is itself a subject of an international dispute over its political status.
Taiwan subtropical evergreen forests
The Taiwan subtropical evergreen forests is an ecoregion that covers most of the island of Taiwan, with the exception of the southern tip of the island, which constitutes the South Taiwan monsoon rain forests ecoregion.
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Taiwan under Qing rule
The Qing dynasty ruled over the island of Taiwan from 1683 to 1895.
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Taiwan–United States relations
After the United States established diplomatic relations with the People's Republic of China (PRC) in 1979 and recognized Beijing as the only legal government of China, Taiwan–United States relations became unofficial and informal following terms of the Taiwan Relations Act (TRA), which allows the United States to have relations with the Taiwanese people and their government, whose name is not specified.
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Taiwanese beef noodle soup
Taiwanese beef noodle soup is a beef noodle soup dish that originated in Taiwan.
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Taiwanese cuisine
Taiwanese cuisine (Bopomofo: ㄊㄞˊㄨㄢˉㄌㄧㄠˋㄌㄧˇ, or, Bopomofo: ㄊㄞˊㄨㄢˉㄘㄞˋ) is a popular style of food with several variations, including Chinese and that of Taiwanese indigenous peoples, with the earliest cuisines known of being the indigenous ones.
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Taiwanese fried chicken
Taiwanese fried chicken (also), westernized as popcorn chicken, is a dish in Taiwanese cuisine commonly found as street snack and is indispensable to the night markets in Taiwan.
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Taiwanese Hakka
Taiwanese Hakka is a language group consisting of Hakka dialects spoken in Taiwan, and mainly used by people of Hakka ancestry.
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Taiwanese Hokkien
Taiwanese Hokkien (Tâi-lô), or simply Taiwanese, also known as Taiuanoe, Taigi, Taigu (Pe̍h-ōe-jī/Tâi-lô: /), Taiwanese Minnan, Hoklo and Holo, is a variety of the Hokkien language spoken natively by more than 70 percent of the population of Taiwan.
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Taiwanese Imperial Japan Serviceman
A Taiwanese Imperial Japan Serviceman is any Taiwanese person who served in the Imperial Japanese Army or Navy during World War II whether as a soldier, a sailor, or in another non-combat capacity.
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Taiwanese indigenous peoples
Taiwanese indigenous peoples, also known as Formosans, Native Taiwanese or Austronesian Taiwanese, and formerly as Taiwanese aborigines, Takasago people or Gaoshan people, are the indigenous peoples of Taiwan, with the nationally recognized subgroups numbering about 600,303 or 3% of the island's population.
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Taiwanese literature
Taiwanese literature refers to the literature written by Taiwanese in any language ever used in Taiwan, including Japanese, Taiwanese Han (Hokkien, Hakka and Mandarin) and Austronesian languages.
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Taiwanese Mandarin
Taiwanese Mandarin, frequently referred to as Guoyu or Huayu, is the variety of Mandarin Chinese spoken in Taiwan.
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Taiwanese nationalism
Taiwanese nationalism is a nationalist movement which asserts that the Taiwanese people are a distinct nation.
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Taiwanese people
The term "Taiwanese people" has various interpretations.
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Tamsui District
Tamsui District (Tâi-lô: Tām-tsuí) is a seaside district in New Taipei City, Taiwan adjacent to the Tamsui River and overlooking the Taiwan Strait.
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Tamsui Historical Museum
The Tamsui Historical Museum is a museum in Tamsui District, New Taipei, Taiwan.
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Tangwai movement
The Tangwai movement, or simply Tangwai, was a loosely knit political movement in Taiwan in the mid-1970s and early 1980s.
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Tao people
The Tao people (Mandarin) are an Austronesian ethnic group native to the tiny outlying Orchid Island of Taiwan.
Taoism
Taoism or Daoism is a diverse philosophical and religious tradition indigenous to China, emphasizing harmony with the Tao—generally understood as an impersonal, enigmatic process of transformation ultimately underlying reality.
Taoyuan International Airport
Taiwan Taoyuan International Airport — also sometimes referred to as Taipei-Taoyuan International Airport — is an international airport situated in Taoyuan City that serves northern Taiwan, including the capital city Taipei.
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Taoyuan Metro
The Taoyuan Metro (formerly Taoyuan Rail Transit and officially Taoyuan Mass Rapid Transit System) is a rapid transit system serving Taoyuan City, as well as parts of New Taipei City and Taipei City, in Taiwan.
Tapani incident
The Tapani incident or Tapani uprising in 1915 was one of the biggest armed uprisings by Taiwanese Han and Aboriginals, including Taivoan, against Japanese rule in Taiwan.
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Taroko National Park
Taroko National Park is one of the nine national parks in Taiwan and was named after the Taroko Gorge, the landmark gorge of the park carved by the Liwu River.
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Taroko people
The Taroko people, also known as Truku people, are an Indigenous Taiwanese people.
Tectonics
Tectonics are the processes that result in the structure and properties of the Earth's crust and its evolution through time.
Tel Aviv Pride
Tel Aviv Pride (Hebrew: מצעד הגאווה בתל אביב, Arabic: فخر تل أبيب) is a week-long series of events in Tel Aviv which takes place on the second week of June, as part of the international observance of Gay Pride Month.
Temporary capital
A temporary capital or a provisional capital is a city or town chosen by a government as an interim base of operations due to some difficulty in retaining or establishing control of a different metropolitan area.
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Temporary Provisions against the Communist Rebellion
The Temporary Provisions Effective During the Period of National Mobilization for Suppression of the Communist Rebellion provisions of the Constitution of the Republic of China were effective from 1948 to 1991 and amended four times by the Central Government of China.
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Ten Major Construction Projects
The Ten Major Construction Projects were the national infrastructure projects during the 1970s in Taiwan.
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Tennis
Tennis is a racket sport that is played either individually against a single opponent (singles) or between two teams of two players each (doubles).
Teresa Teng
Teng Li-chun (p; 29 January 1953 – 8 May 1995), commonly known as Teresa Teng, was a Taiwanese singer, actress, musician and philanthropist.
Terrane
In geology, a terrane (in full, a tectonostratigraphic terrane) is a crust fragment formed on a tectonic plate (or broken off from it) and accreted or "sutured" to crust lying on another plate.
Thao people
The Thao/Ngan are a small group of Taiwanese indigenous peoples who have lived near Sun Moon Lake (Lake Candidius) in central Taiwan for at least a century, and probably since the time of the Qing dynasty.
The Atlantic
The Atlantic is an American magazine and multi-platform publisher.
The Diplomat
The Diplomat is an international online news magazine covering politics, society, and culture in the Indo-Pacific region.
The Economist Democracy Index
The Democracy Index published by the Economist Group is an index measuring the quality of democracy across the world.
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The Guardian
The Guardian is a British daily newspaper.
The News Lens
The News Lens (TNL) is an independent digital media based in Taiwan, founded by Joey Chung and Mario Yang in 2013, with multilingual versions in Chinese, English and Japanese.
The World Factbook
The World Factbook, also known as the CIA World Factbook, is a reference resource produced by the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) with almanac-style information about the countries of the world.
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Theory of the Undetermined Status of Taiwan
The Theory of the Undetermined Status of Taiwan, also called the Theory of the Undetermined Sovereignty of Taiwan, is one of the theories which describe the island of Taiwan's present legal status.
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Three Principles of the People
The Three Principles of the People (also translated as the Three People's Principles, San-min Doctrine, or Tridemism) is a political philosophy developed by Sun Yat-sen as part of a philosophy to improve China made during the Republican Era.
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Tian
Tian (天) is one of the oldest Chinese terms for heaven and a key concept in Chinese mythology, philosophy, and religion.
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Tibet
Tibet (Böd), or Greater Tibet, is a region in the western part of East Asia, covering much of the Tibetan Plateau and spanning about.
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Tibet (1912–1951)
Tibet was a de facto independent state in East Asia that lasted from the collapse of the Qing dynasty in 1912 until its annexation by the People's Republic of China in 1951.
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Tibet Area (administrative division)
The Tibet Area was a province-level administrative division of China in the 20th century.
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Time in Taiwan
National Standard Time is the official time zone in Taiwan defined by an UTC offset of +08:00.
Tong'an, Xiamen
Tong'an District is a northern mainland district of Amoy which faces Quemoy County, Republic of China.
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Tongmenghui
The Tongmenghui of China was a secret society and underground resistance movement founded by Sun Yat-sen, Song Jiaoren, and others in Tokyo, Empire of Japan, on 20 August 1905, with the goal of overthrowing China's Qing dynasty.
Top-level domain
A top-level domain (TLD) is one of the domains at the highest level in the hierarchical Domain Name System of the Internet after the root domain.
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Tour de Taiwan
The Tour de Taiwan is an annual professional road bicycle racing stage race held in Taiwan since 1978, and has been part of the UCI Asia Tour since 2005.
Trading nation
A trading nation (also known as a trade-dependent economy, or an export-oriented economy) is a country where international trade makes up a large percentage of its economy.
Traditional Chinese characters
Traditional Chinese characters are a standard set of Chinese character forms used to write Chinese languages.
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Treaty of San Francisco
The, also called the, re-established peaceful relations between Japan and the Allied Powers on behalf of the United Nations by ending the legal state of war, military occupation and providing for redress for hostile actions up to and including World War II.
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Treaty of Shimonoseki
The, also known as the Treaty of Maguan in China and in the period before and during World War II in Japan, was an unequal treaty signed at the hotel, Shimonoseki, Japan on April 17, 1895, between the Empire of Japan and Qing China, ending the First Sino-Japanese War.
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Treaty of Taipei
The Sino-Japanese Peace Treaty (t; 日華平和条約), formally the Treaty of Peace between the Republic of China and Japan (t; 日本国と中華民国との間の平和条約) and commonly known as the Treaty of Taipei (t), was a peace treaty between Japan and the Republic of China (ROC) signed in Taipei, Taiwan on 28 April 1952, and took effect on August 5 the same year, marking the formal end of the Second Sino-Japanese War (1937–1945).
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Tricameralism
Tricameralism is the practice of having three legislative or parliamentary chambers.
Tropic of Cancer
The Tropic of Cancer, also known as the Northern Tropic, is the Earth's northernmost circle of latitude where the Sun can be seen directly overhead.
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Tropical climate
Tropical climate is the first of the five major climate groups in the Köppen climate classification identified with the letter A. Tropical climates are defined by a monthly average temperature of or higher in the coolest month, featuring hot temperatures and high humidity all year-round.
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Tsai Ing-wen
Tsai Ing-wen (born 31 August 1956) is a Taiwanese politician who served as the 7th president of the Republic of China (Taiwan) from 2016 to 2024, and was the first woman to hold that position.
Tsai Ming-liang
Tsai Ming-liang (born 27 October 1957) is a Malaysian filmmaker based in Taiwan.
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TSMC
Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company Limited (TSMC or Taiwan Semiconductor) is a Taiwanese multinational semiconductor contract manufacturing and design company.
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Tsou people
The Tsou (Tsou: Cou) are an indigenous people of central southern Taiwan.
Two Chinas
The concept of Two Chinas refers to the political divide between the People's Republic of China (PRC) and the Republic of China (ROC).
Typhoon
A typhoon is a tropical cyclone that develops between 180° and 100°E in the Northern Hemisphere and which produces sustained hurricane-force winds of at least.
U-12 Baseball World Cup
The U-12 Baseball World Cup is the under-12 baseball world championship sanctioned by the World Baseball Softball Confederation (WBSC) and its predecessor the International Baseball Federation (IBAF), and is the most elite and highest level of competition in its age category.
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Underemployment
Underemployment is the underuse of a worker because their job does not use their skills, offers them too few hours, or leaves the worker idle.
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Unicameralism
Unicameralism (from uni- "one" + Latin camera "chamber") is a type of legislature consisting of one house or assembly that legislates and votes as one.
United Microelectronics Corporation
United Microelectronics Corporation (UMC) is a Taiwanese company based in Hsinchu, Taiwan.
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United Nations
The United Nations (UN) is a diplomatic and political international organization whose stated purposes are to maintain international peace and security, develop friendly relations among nations, achieve international cooperation, and serve as a centre for harmonizing the actions of nations.
United Nations Development Programme
The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP)Programme des Nations unies pour le développement, PNUD is a United Nations agency tasked with helping countries eliminate poverty and achieve sustainable economic growth and human development.
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United Nations General Assembly Resolution 2758 (XXVI)
The United Nations General Assembly Resolution 2758 (also known as the Resolution on Admitting Peking) was passed in response to the United Nations General Assembly Resolution 1668 that required any change in China's representation in the UN be determined by a two-thirds vote referring to Article 18 of the UN Charter.
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United Nations Security Council
The United Nations Security Council (UNSC) is one of the six principal organs of the United Nations (UN) and is charged with ensuring international peace and security, recommending the admission of new UN members to the General Assembly, and approving any changes to the UN Charter.
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United States
The United States of America (USA or U.S.A.), commonly known as the United States (US or U.S.) or America, is a country primarily located in North America.
United States Agency for International Development
The United States Agency for International Development (USAID) is an independent agency of the United States government that is primarily responsible for administering civilian foreign aid and development assistance.
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United States Department of State
The United States Department of State (DOS), or simply the State Department, is an executive department of the U.S. federal government responsible for the country's foreign policy and relations.
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United States foreign aid
United States foreign aid, also known as US foreign assistance consists of a variety of tangible and intangible forms of assistance the United States gives to other countries.
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United States Geological Survey
The United States Geological Survey (USGS), founded as the Geological Survey, is an agency of the United States government whose work spans the disciplines of biology, geography, geology, and hydrology.
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United States Office of Personnel Management
The United States Office of Personnel Management (OPM) is an independent agency of the United States government that manages the United States federal civil service.
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United States Seventh Fleet
The Seventh Fleet is a numbered fleet of the United States Navy.
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United States Taiwan Defense Command
The United States Taiwan Defense Command (USTDC; t) was a sub-unified command of the United States Armed Forces operating in Taiwan from December 1954 to April 1979.
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University of Bangka Belitung
University of Bangka Belitung (Indonesian: Universitas Bangka Belitung, abbreviated UBB) is a public university in Bangka Belitung province, Indonesia.
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University of California Press
The University of California Press, otherwise known as UC Press, is a publishing house associated with the University of California that engages in academic publishing.
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University of Malaya
The Universiti Malaya (UM; abbreviated as UM or informally the Malayan University) is a public research university located in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.
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University World News
University World News (UWN) is an online publisher that reports on higher education news and developments from a global perspective.
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Unrepresented Nations and Peoples Organization
The Unrepresented Nations and Peoples Organization, or simply UNPO is an international organization established to facilitate the voices of unrepresented and marginalised nations and peoples worldwide.
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Urbanization by sovereign state
This is a list of countries by urbanization.
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Varieties of Chinese
There are hundreds of local Chinese language varieties forming a branch of the Sino-Tibetan language family, many of which are not mutually intelligible.
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Vice President of the Republic of China
The vice president of the Republic of China, commonly referred to as the vice president of Taiwan, is the second-highest constitutional office of the government in Taiwan, after the president, and ranks first in the presidential line of succession.
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Volleyball
Volleyball is a team sport in which two teams of six players are separated by a net.
Waishengren
Waishengren (Tâi-lô: guā-síng-lâng), sometimes called mainlanders, are a group of migrants who arrived in Taiwan from mainland China between the Japanese surrender at the end of World War II in 1945, and Kuomintang retreat and the end of the Chinese Civil War in 1949.
Wang Dayuan
Wang Dayuan (fl. 1311–1350), courtesy name Huanzhang, was a Chinese traveller of the Yuan dynasty from Quanzhou in the 14th century.
Warlord Era
The Warlord Era was a period in the history of the Republic of China when control of the country was divided among former military cliques of the Beiyang Army and other regional factions from 1916 to 1928.
WBSC World Rankings
The WBSC World Rankings is a ranking system for national teams in baseball, softball, and baseball5.
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Wei Tao-ming
Wei Tao-ming (October 28, 1899 – May 18, 1978) was a Chinese diplomat and public servant. He was the Republic of China's Ambassador to the United States during the Second World War and foreign minister during the years when the People's Republic of China sought to oust the ROC from the United Nations.
Wei-Yin Chen
Wei-Yin Chen (born July 21, 1985) is a Taiwanese professional baseball pitcher for the Long Island Ducks of the Atlantic League of Professional Baseball.
Western Bloc
The Western Bloc, also known as the Capitalist Bloc, is an informal, collective term for countries that were officially allied with the United States during the Cold War of 1947–1991.
Western culture
Western culture, also known as Western civilization, European civilization, Occidental culture, or Western society, includes the diverse heritages of social norms, ethical values, traditional customs, belief systems, political systems, artifacts and technologies of the Western world.
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White Terror (Taiwan)
The White Terror was the political repression of Taiwanese civilians and political dissenters under the government ruled by the Kuomintang (KMT).
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Wiley-Blackwell
Wiley-Blackwell is an international scientific, technical, medical, and scholarly publishing business of John Wiley & Sons.
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William Jones Cup
The R. William Jones Cup, also known as the Jones Cup, is an international basketball tournament organized by the Chinese Taipei Basketball Association (CTBA) held annually since 1977 in Taiwan.
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Wokou
Wokou (倭寇; Hepburn), which translates to "Japanese pirates", were pirates who raided the coastlines of China and Korea from the 13th century to the 17th century.
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Women's major golf championships
Women's golf has a set of major championships, a series of tournaments designated to be of a higher status than other tournaments.
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Women's World Golf Rankings
The Women's World Golf Rankings, also known for sponsorship reasons as the Rolex Rankings, were introduced in February 2006.
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World Bank
The World Bank is an international financial institution that provides loans and grants to the governments of low- and middle-income countries for the purpose of pursuing capital projects.
World Health Assembly
The World Health Assembly (WHA) is the forum through which the World Health Organization (WHO) is governed by its 194 member states.
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World Health Organization
The World Health Organization (WHO) is a specialized agency of the United Nations responsible for international public health.
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World Organization of the Scout Movement
The World Organization of the Scout Movement (WOSM) is the largest international Scouting organization.
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World Trade Organization
The World Trade Organization (WTO) is an intergovernmental organization headquartered in Geneva, Switzerland that regulates and facilitates international trade.
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World War II
World War II or the Second World War (1 September 1939 – 2 September 1945) was a global conflict between two alliances: the Allies and the Axis powers.
World War II evacuation and expulsion
Mass evacuation, forced displacement, expulsion, and deportation of millions of people took place across most countries involved in World War II.
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Writing systems of Formosan languages
The writing systems of the Formosan languages are Latin-based alphabets.
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Written vernacular Chinese
Written vernacular Chinese, also known as baihua, comprises forms of written Chinese based on the vernacular varieties of the language spoken throughout China.
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Wu Han (pianist)
Wu Han (born February 19, 1959) is a Taiwanese-American pianist and influential figure in the classical music world.
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Wuqiu, Kinmen
Wuqiu (Wuchiu, Wuciou, Ockseu) (Puxian Min: Ou-chhiu, Hakka: Vû-hiu-hiông) is a rural township of Kinmen County (Quemoy), Taiwan (ROC) made up of a group of islands in the Taiwan Strait comprising two major islands, Daqiu and Xiaoqiu.
Xiamen
Xiamen is a sub-provincial city in southeastern Fujian, People's Republic of China, beside the Taiwan Strait.
Xinjiang Province, Republic of China
Xinjiang Province or Sinkiang Province was a nominal province of the Republic of China without administrative function.
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Yangtze Plate
The Yangtze Plate, also called the South China Block or the South China Subplate, comprises the bulk of southern China.
Yani Tseng
Yani Tseng (born 23 January 1989) is a Taiwanese professional golfer playing on the U.S.-based LPGA Tour.
Yiguandao
Yiguandao / I-Kuan Tao, meaning the Consistent Way or Persistent Way, is a Chinese salvationist religious sect that emerged in the late 19th century, in Shandong, to become China's most important redemptive society in the 1930s and 1940s, especially during the Japanese invasion.
Yijiangshan Islands
The Yijiangshan Islands are two small islands from the Dachen Islands, located off the coast of Taizhou, Zhejiang, in the East China Sea.
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Yingpu culture
The Yingpu Culture was a late Neolithic (3500 BP - 2000 BP) culture centered on the central-west region of Taiwan.
Yu Shan
Yu Shan or Yushan, also known as Mount Jade, Jade Mountain, Tongku Saveq or Mount Niitaka during Japanese rule, is the highest mountain in Taiwan at above sea level, giving Taiwan the 4th-highest maximum elevation of any island in the world.
Yuan dynasty
The Yuan dynasty, officially the Great Yuan (Mongolian:, Yeke Yuwan Ulus, literally "Great Yuan State"), was a Mongol-led imperial dynasty of China and a successor state to the Mongol Empire after its ''de facto'' division.
Yunnan
Yunnan is an inland province in Southwestern China.
Zhejiang
Zhejiang is an eastern coastal province of the People's Republic of China.
Zheng Jing
Zheng Jing, Prince of Yanping (25 October 1642 – 17 March 1681), courtesy names Xianzhi and Yuanzhi, pseudonym Shitian, was initially a Southern Ming military general who later became the second ruler of the Tungning Kingdom of Taiwan by succeeding his father Koxinga's hereditary title of "Prince of Yanping", reigned as a dynastic monarch of the kingdom from 1662 to 1681.
Zhongyuan
Zhongyuan, the Central Plain(s), also known as Zhongtu (lit. 'central land') and Zhongzhou (lit. 'central region'), commonly refers to the part of the North China Plain surrounding the lower and middle reaches of the Yellow River, centered on the region between Luoyang and Kaifeng.
Zhongzhou Reef
Zhongzhou Reef also known as Ban Than Reef and Centre Cay (Mandarin; Bãi Bàn Than) is a small coral reef on the north edge of the Tizard Bank in the Spratly Islands, South China Sea under administration by the Republic of China (Taiwan).
Zhou dynasty
The Zhou dynasty was a royal dynasty of China that existed for 789 years from until 256 BC, the longest of such reign in Chinese history.
Zhu Yigui
Zhu Yigui (1690–1722) was a Taiwanese military general and rebel.
Zhu Youlang
The Yongli Emperor (1623–1662; reigned 24 December 1646 – 1 June 1662), personal name Zhu Youlang, was the fourth and last emperor of the Southern Ming dynasty, reigning in turbulent times when the former Ming dynasty was overthrown and the Manchu-led Qing dynasty progressively conquered the entire China proper.
Zongzi
Zongzi, rouzong, or simply zong is a traditional Chinese rice dish made of glutinous rice stuffed with different fillings and wrapped in bamboo leaves.
.tw
.tw is the Internet country code top-level domain (ccTLD) for Taiwan.
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1911 Revolution
The 1911 Revolution, also known as the Xinhai Revolution or Hsinhai Revolution, ended China's last imperial dynasty, the Qing dynasty, and led to the establishment of the Republic of China.
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1943 Cairo Declaration
The Cairo Declaration (Traditional Chinese: 《開羅宣言》) was the outcome of the Cairo Conference in Cairo, Egypt, on 27 November 1943.
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1960–61 campaign at the China–Burma border
The campaign at the China–Burma border (t) was a series of battles fought along the China–Burma border after the Chinese Civil War, with the communist People's Republic of China (PRC) and the Union of Burma on one side and the nationalist forces of the Republic of China (ROC) on the other.
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1992 Consensus
The 1992 Consensus is a political term referring to the alleged outcome of a meeting in 1992 between the semiofficial representatives of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP)-led People's Republic of China (PRC) in mainland China and the Kuomintang (KMT)-led Republic of China (ROC) on Taiwan.
1996 Taiwanese presidential election
Presidential elections were held in Taiwan on 23 March 1996.
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1999 Jiji earthquake
The Chi-Chi earthquake (later also known as the Jiji earthquake or the great earthquake of September 21), was a 7.3 ML or 7.7 Mw earthquake which occurred in Jiji (Chi-Chi), Nantou County, Taiwan on 21 September 1999 at 01:47:12 local time.
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2000 Taiwanese presidential election
Presidential elections were held in Taiwan on 18 March 2000 to elect the president and vice president.
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2004 Taiwanese cross-strait relations referendum
A consultative referendum was held in Taiwan on 20 March 2004 to coincide with the 2004 presidential elections.
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2008 Taiwanese presidential election
Presidential elections were held in Taiwan on 22 March 2008.
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2008 Taiwanese United Nations membership referendum
Two referendums on United Nations membership applications were held in Taiwan on 22 March 2008, the same day as the presidential elections.
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2009 Summer Deaflympics
The 2009 Summer Deaflympics, officially known as the 21st Summer Deaflympics was an international multi-sport event from 5 to 15 September 2009 in Taipei, Taiwan (Republic of China).
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2009 World Games
The 2009 World Games the eighth edition of the World Games, were an international multi-sport event held in Kaohsiung, Taiwan (under the name Chinese Taipei) from 16 July 2009 to 26 July 2009.
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2016 Taiwanese legislative election
Legislative elections were held in Taiwan on 16 January 2016 to elect all 113 members in the Legislative Yuan, alongside presidential elections.
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2016 Taiwanese presidential election
Presidential elections were held in Taiwan on 16 January 2016.
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2017 Summer Universiade
The 2017 Summer Universiade, officially known as the XXIX Summer Universiade (p) and commonly called Taipei 2017 (p), was a multi-sport event, sanctioned by the International University Sports Federation (FISU), held in the city of Taipei, Taiwan.
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2018 Taiwanese referendum
A multi-question referendum was held in Taiwan on 24 November 2018 alongside local elections.
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2020 Summer Olympics
The officially the and officially branded as were an international multi-sport event held from 23 July to 8 August 2021 in Tokyo, Japan, with some preliminary events that began on 21 July 2021.
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2021 U-12 Baseball World Cup
The 2021 U-12 Baseball World Cup was an under 12 international baseball tournament being held from 28 July 2022 to 7 August 2022 in Tainan, Taiwan. It was the sixth edition of the tournament.
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2022 Baseball5 World Cup
The 2022 Baseball5 World Cup was the first edition of the Baseball5 World Cup, the mixed-gender Baseball5 (B5) world championship organized by the World Baseball Softball Confederation (WBSC).
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2022 U-18 Baseball World Cup
The 2021 U-18 Baseball World Cup or the XXIX U-18 Baseball World Cup is an international baseball tournament held by the World Baseball Softball Confederation for players 18-year-old and younger held in Bradenton and Sarasota, Florida, USA.
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2022 U-23 Baseball World Cup
The 2022 U-23 Baseball World Cup, officially IV U-23 Baseball World Cup, is the fourth edition of the U-23 Baseball World Cup tournament.
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2024 Taiwanese legislative election
Legislative elections were held in the Republic of China (Taiwan) on 13 January, 2024 for the Legislative Yuan of the Republic of China concurrently with the presidential election.
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2024 Taiwanese presidential election
Presidential elections were held in Taiwan on 13 January 2024 as part of the 2024 general elections.
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2025 Summer World Masters Games
The 2025 Summer World Masters Games, commonly known as Taipei & New Taipei 2025, is a forthcoming international multi-sport event that is scheduled to take place from 17 May to 30 May 2025 in Taipei and New Taipei, Taiwan.
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7-Eleven
7-Eleven, Inc. is an American convenience store chain, headquartered in Irving, Texas.
See also
1912 establishments in China
- Beiyang government
- Camp Holcomb
- Chahar Province
- Changsha Normal University
- Chekiang Province, Republic of China
- Chengyang Bridge
- Commission on the Unification of Pronunciation
- Constitutional oath of office of China
- Democratic Party (1912)
- First Middle School of Changsha
- Henan Agricultural University
- Henan University
- Kuomintang
- Luokou Yellow River Railway Bridge
- Ministry of Education (Taiwan)
- Ministry of Finance (Taiwan)
- Ministry of Foreign Affairs (Taiwan)
- Ministry of Transportation and Communications (Taiwan)
- Mongolian and Tibetan Affairs Commission
- Nanjing University of the Arts
- Nantong University
- Nanyang Institute of Technology
- Nanyang Normal University
- Order of the Precious Brilliant Golden Grain
- Peking University Health Science Center
- People's Park (Ürümqi)
- Republic of China (1912–1949)
- Republic of China Naval Academy
- Republic of China calendar
- Republican Party (China)
- Roman Catholic Diocese of Tianjin
- Scouts of China
- Shanghai American School
- Shanghai Datong High School
- Taiwan
- Taiyuan Arsenal
- Tiangong University
- Unity Party (China)
- Utopia University
- Women's Suffrage Alliance
- Xi'an Polytechnic University
- Xiaoshi Middle School
- Zhejiang University School of Medicine
Countries and territories where Chinese is an official language
- China
- Hong Kong
- List of countries and territories where Chinese is an official language
- Macau
- Singapore
- Taiwan
East Asian countries
- China
- Japan
- Mongolia
- North Korea
- South Korea
- Taiwan
Former Japanese colonies
- Caroline Islands
- Federated States of Micronesia
- Japanese colonial empire
- Japanese occupation of Hong Kong
- Japanese occupation of Singapore
- Japanese occupation of the Philippines
- Karafuto
- Karafuto Prefecture
- Korea under Japanese rule
- Kuril Islands
- Kwantung Leased Territory
- Manchukuo
- Marshall Islands
- North Korea
- Northern Mariana Islands
- Palau
- Philippines
- Sakhalin
- South Korea
- South Seas Mandate
- Taiwan
- Taiwan under Japanese rule
Northeast Asian countries
- China
- Japan
- Mongolia
- North Korea
- Russia
- South Korea
- Taiwan
Republic of China
- Buddhism in the Republic of China
- Government of the Republic of China
- Huadu (Taiwan)
- Kuomintang
- Politics of the Republic of China
- Republic of China (1912–1949)
- Republic of China calendar
- Sport in the Republic of China
- Taiwan
- Timeline of the Republic of China
States and territories established in 1912
- Albania
- Arizona
- Assam Province
- Bihar
- Bihar and Orissa Province
- Chahar Province
- Chekiang Province, Republic of China
- Drač County
- Franklin County, New Zealand
- French protectorate in Morocco
- Independent Albania
- Italian Islands of the Aegean
- Khasi and Jaintia Hills
- Kholm Governorate (Russian Empire)
- New Mexico
- Republic of China (1912–1949)
- Spanish protectorate in Morocco
- Taiwan
- Teriberskaya Volost
- Territory of Alaska
- Yunnan Province, Republic of China
States with limited recognition
- Abkhazia
- Armenia
- China
- Cook Islands
- Israel
- Kosovo
- List of states with limited recognition
- Niue
- North Korea
- Northern Cyprus
- Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic
- Somaliland
- South Korea
- South Ossetia
- State of Palestine
- Taiwan
- Transnistria
Taiwan placenames originating from Formosan languages
- Bali District
- Beinan, Taitung
- Beitou District
- Chunri, Pingtung
- Dadu District, Taichung
- Dajia District
- Dali District
- Daxi District
- Erlin, Changhua
- Guishan District
- Haiduan
- Houlong
- Jiasian District
- Keelung
- Luodong
- Madou District
- Majia, Pingtung
- Manzhou, Pingtung
- Miaoli County
- Mudan, Pingtung
- Namasia District
- Nantou City
- Puli, Nantou
- Sandimen
- Shalu District
- Syuejia District
- Taimali
- Taiwan
- Tongxiao
- Wanhua District
- Wufeng District
- Wulai District
- Wutai, Pingtung
- Xiluo
- Yilan County, Taiwan
- Yuanli
- Yujing District
- Zhuolan
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