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  Taiwan
Taiwan, as well as several smaller islands of Fujian, such as Quemoy and Matsu, have been administered since 1945 by a government called the Republic of China (ROC), the former government of mainland China before its 1949 defeat by the Communist Party of China.
Taiwan's indigenous population was first joined and intermarried with male traders and seasonal workers from Mainland China primarily during a brief period of Dutch control between 1624 and 1662.
The island of Taiwan lies some 200 km off the southeastern coast of Mainland China across the Taiwan Strait, with the East China Sea to the north, the Philippine Sea to the east, the Luzon Strait directly to the south and the South China Sea to the southwest.
www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/ta/Taiwan.html   (1622 words)

  
 Taiwan - Biocrawler   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
Taiwan is mostly mountainous in the east, but gradually transitions to gently sloping plains in the west (satellite photo by NASA).
The main island of Taiwan, also known as Formosa (Portuguese sailors called it Ilha Formosa, which means "beautiful island"), is bounded to the east by the Pacific Ocean, to the south by the South China Sea, to the west by the Taiwan Strait, and to the north by the East China Sea.
Taiwan's two largest cities, Taipei City and Kaohsiung City, although on the island of Taiwan, are not part of the Taiwan Province, but centrally administered municipalities, with the same level as provinces.
www.biocrawler.com /encyclopedia/Taiwan   (3163 words)

  
 Taiwan   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
Taiwan's largest city Taipei serves as the provisional capital of Republic of China while Jhongsing Village in central Taiwan near the city Taichung is the capital of Taiwan province.
Taiwan's indigenous population was first joined and intermarried with traders and seasonal workers from Mainland China primarily during a brief period of Dutch control between 1624 and 1662.
The island of Taiwan lies some 200 off the southeastern coast of Mainland China across the Taiwan Strait with the East China Sea to the north the Philippine Sea to the east the Luzon Strait directly to the south and the South China Sea to the southwest.
www.freeglossary.com /Taiwan   (1645 words)

  
 Wikinfo | Taiwan   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
Taiwan's largest city Taipei serves as the provisional capital of the Republic of China, while Chung-hsing-hsin-ts'un is the capital of Taiwan province.
However, due to Taiwan's status of composing most of the ROC current jurisdiction, the word "Taiwan" is usually used synonymously with the Republic of China, while the word "China" is used synonymously with the People's Republic of China.
Taiwan's culture is a blend of its distinctive Chinese heritage and Western influences.
www.wikinfo.org /wiki.php?title=Taiwan   (1096 words)

  
 Britain.tv Wikipedia - Taiwan
Han Chinese began settling in the Pescadores in the 1200s, but Taiwan's hostile tribes and its lack of the trade resources valued in that era rendered it unattractive to all but "occasional adventurers or fishermen engaging in barter"?title=until the sixteenth century.
Some women from Taiwan, like their counterparts from the Japanese mainland and Korea, were forced to serve as "comfort women"?title=(sex slaves) for the Japanese Imperial Army during the Second World War.
The ensuing military occupation of Taiwan was however conducted on behalf of the "conqueror"?title=and "principal occupying power,"?title=which was/is the United States.
www.britain.tv /wikipedia.php?title=Taiwan   (5873 words)

  
 China, Republic of (Taiwan)
"Taiwan" is commonly used to refer to the government of the Republic of China (ROC), which currently governs Taiwan, as well as the smaller outlying island groups of Penghu, Kinmen, Matsu, Lanyu (Orchid Island), and Green Island.
The island is 634 kilometers (394 miles) long and 232 kilometers (144 miles) wide and consists of steep mountains covered by tropical and subtropical vegetation.
Taiwan has been transformed into a major industrialized economy and is often touted as one of the East Asian Tigers.
creekin.net /n41-china-republic-of-taiwan-.html   (3083 words)

  
 Demographics of Taiwan - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Republic of China's population was estimated in 2005 at 22.9 million, most of which are on Taiwan.
In Taiwan, about 98% of the population is of Han Chinese ethnicity.
Between 1900 and 1945 Japanese was the medium of instruction and could be fluently spoken by many of the educated during that period.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Demographics_of_Taiwan   (773 words)

  
 CDC - Melioidosis: An Emerging Infection in Taiwan?
In Taiwan in 1985, melioidosis was first reported in a previously healthy patient with multilobar pneumonia, which developed secondary to his near drowning in the Philippines (13).
Data on demographics, underlying diseases, travel history, type of infection, antimicrobial treatment, and outcome of these patients were analyzed.
In conclusion, Taiwan should be included an as endemic area of melioidosis, and physicians managing patients in Taiwan should be alert to the possibility that this organism might cause community-acquired pneumonia and sepsis.
www.cdc.gov /ncidod/eid/vol7no3/hsueh.htm   (3170 words)

  
 China Demographics
UN Department of Economic and Social Affairs - demographic resources on Asia and China
Official Taiwan National Statistics - Population Statistics related to Economics and GDP
World Gazetteer - China population demographics 1990 - 2000 - 2004 - Province KM size - Province and City demographics
www.goldenlanterns.com /china-demographics_resources.html   (352 words)

  
 2005 Demographics - 2006 FSA Suppliers Expo TAIWAN
2005 Demographics - 2006 FSA Suppliers Expo TAIWAN
FSA's exhibitions differ from others in the semiconductor industry because of the types of attendees it attracts - senior level executives and purchasing managers who make the partnering decisions for their companies.
The 2005 FSA Suppliers Expo TAIWAN attracted nearly 1000 semiconductor industry professionals.
www.fsa.org /suppliers_expo/taiwan2006/exhibitors/demographics.asp   (52 words)

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