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	Talk:List of metropolitan areas in Taiwan - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The original title of the article was Metropolitan areas in ROC (Taiwan), and was moved at 03:28, Feb 16 2005 by Jiang.
		Taiwan as the name of a geographical area (the island) is not controversial.
		Oppose As stated above, all the metropolitan areas listed are on the island of Taiwan.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Talk:List_of_metropolitan_areas_in_Taiwan

	Metropolitan_area encyclopedia and info, forum and guides
		A metropolitan area is a large population center consisting of a large city and its adjacent zone of influence, or of several neighboring cities or towns and adjoining areas, with one or more large cities serving as its hub or hubs.
		A metropolitan area usually combines an agglomeration (the contiguous built-up area) with peripheral zones not themselves necessarily urban in character but closely bound to the centre by employment or commerce; these zones are also sometimes known as a commuter belt, and may extend well beyond the urban periphery depending on the definition used.
		The term metropolitan area is sometimes abbreviated to 'metro', for example in Metro Manila and Washington, DC Metro Area, and then should not be mistaken to mean the metro rail system of the city.
	puerto-rico.caribbean-forum.com /encyclopedia.php?title=Metropolitan_area

	County. Everything you wanted to know about County but had no clue how to find it.. Learn about County here!
		In England, in the Anglo-Saxon period, Shires were established as areas used for the raising of taxes, and usually had a fortified town at their centre.
		metropolitan counties which served large urban areas as a single administrative unit.
		However it can also be used to mean a geographic area, and this can generate much confusion, especially when boundaries used by government or postal deliveries change or do not coincide.
	encyclopedia.lockergnome.com /s/b/County

	Taipei Economic and Cultural Office in Australia
		The Republic of China was founded as Asia's first constitutional republic in 1912 by Dr. Sun Yat-Sen. Since the ROC government moved to Taiwan after the Chinese mainland fell to communist Chinese forces in 1949, the area over which the ROC government exercises administrative control is called the Taiwan area.
		This area encompasses Taiwan, Penghu, Kinmen, Matsu, and a number of smaller islands.
		About 60 percent of Taiwan's population is concentrated in four metropolitan areas: Taipei, Kaohsiung, Taichung, and Tainan.
	www.teco.org.au /abouttaiwan.htm

	List of metropolitan areas in Taiwan - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		This is the definition of metropolitan areas used by the Republic of China government in Taiwan.
		Two metropolitan areas are combined into one if the distance between the largest core cities is less than 25 KM or if they are bordered with each other for more than 1 KM, and if there is close connection of their commuters.
		A metropolitan area is an economically and socially integrated area with one or more core cities.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Metropolitan_areas_in_ROC_(Taiwan)

	Taiwan Yearbook 2004
		Among Taiwan's metropolitan areas, the Jhongli-Taoyuan ä¸å£¢â”æ¡å’ Greater Metropolitan Area grew the fastest in 2002, with a population increase of 1.70 percent.
		The metropolitan area with the highest population remained the Taipei-Keelung èºå—â”åºé Greater Metropolitan Area, with 6.59 million residents and 42.42 percent of Taiwan's urban population.
		ãHeavily populated urban areas have grown outside the official limits of major cities, forming large metropolitan areas, which are now home to 68.93 percent of Taiwan's total population.
	www.roc-taiwan.org.sg /taiwan/5-gp/yearbook/P021.htm

	Taiwan's Population Distribution
		Private hospitals and small clinics in Taiwan ignore the ban on using chorionic villus sampling as a means of determining fetus gender and perform abortions for women who do not prefer the gender of their unborn.
		The population density of the ROC on Taiwan was the second largest in the world (585 persons per sq.
		Highly populated urban areas have emerged around metropolitan Taipei, where seven cities and 22 urban and rural townships of Taipei County with a total population of 3.26 million form an interdependent economic and industrial network.
	www.taiwaninfo.org /info/yb96/nf_html/ch02_1.html

	JTRF-Lin-0102.htm
		Taiwan is vulnerable to PRC missile attacks and has only deployed 200 PAC-II version Patriot missiles in the Taipei city metropolitan area, leaving Taichung and Kasohsiung, two other major cities on the island, unguarded.
		Taiwan needs to strengthen its strategy and tactics for both active and passive defense against missile attack, combining this with the psychological, civil, social and economic defense advocated by the total defense strategy, to enable the weapons received from the U.S. to provide real protection for Taiwan.
		Taiwan and the U.S. can make China pay a bigger military and political price for its military invasion of Taiwan, but the maintenance of peace and stability still depends on Taipei and Beijing finding a framework and a form of words that is acceptable to both sides.
	www.taiwansecurity.org /TS/2002/JTRF-Lin-0102.htm

	The Strait Scoop by Bevin Chu
		For four straight days angry Taiwanese rioters ran berserk through the streets of Taiwan’s major metropolitan areas, somewhat akin to the way rioters ran berserk through South Central L.A. following the Rodney King verdict.
		Currently living and working in Taiwan, Chu is the son of a retired high-ranking diplomat with the ROC (Taiwan) government.
		With the ROC’s presidential elections scheduled for March 18, a mere two weeks later, you can bet your life the Taiwan separatist elite is going to milk the tragic occasion for all it’s worth.
	www.antiwar.com /chu/c022500.html

	Asia Times Online - News from greater China; Hong Kong and Taiwan
		Rapid economic growth also led to greater population mobility in Taiwan, with students and young workers flocking to metropolitan areas.
		DPP membership is made up largely of Taiwanese natives.
		The first direct local election for the national office of president of the ROC on Taiwan was held on March 23, 1996.
	www.atimes.com /atimes/China/FA29Ad03.html

	Political divisions of the Republic of China - Iridis Encyclopedia
		In most cases, the area designated as the city is much smaller than than the actual metropolitan area, in contrast with the situation on Mainland China where the administrative city tends to be larger than the actual metropolitan area.
		Historically the most controversial part of the political division system of the ROC has been the existence of Taiwan province as its existence was part of a larger controversy over the political status of Taiwan.
		Maps of China and the world published in Taiwan will sometimes show provincial boundaries as they were in 1949 which do not match the current administrative structure as decided by the Communist Party of China post-1949.
	www.iridis.com /Counties_of_Taiwan

	Prevalence of Non-Insulin-Dependent Diabetes Mellitus and Related Vascular Diseases in Southwestern Arseniasis-Endemic and Nonendemic Areas in Taiwan
		The prevalence of non-insulin-dependent diabetes, age- and gender-adjusted to the general population in Taiwan, was 7.5% (95% confidence interval, 7.4-7.7%) in the arseniasis-endemic areas and 3.5% (3.5-3.6%) in the nonendemic areas.
		The study population in the endemic area included all those who have lived in four southwestern townships: Puttee and Ichu of Chimayo County and Peimen and Hsuehchia of Taiwan County.
		Age- and gender-adjusted prevalence of microvascular disease in endemic and nonendemic areas was 20.0% and 6.0%, respectively, for diabetics, and 8.6% and 1.0%, respectively, for nondiabetics.
	ehp.niehs.nih.gov /members/2003/5457/5457.html

	Military Matchups: ROC News
		The system would be used to defend the central and southern metropolitan areas of Taichung and Kaohsiung respectively, the Chief of General Staff, General Tang Fei was quoted by the widely circulated China Times as saying.
		The Patriot II system, slated to become active next year for the air defense of the greater Taipei area, may be expanded to cover the nearby Taoyuan county and Keelung city, he said.
		More relevant, the Taiwan officials said, is the impact of a gradually reduced defense budget on long-term procurement programs.
	www.emeraldesigns.com /matchup/roc_november.htm

	Worldpress.org - Touring Taiwan by Rail
		Taiwan’s total land area is only about 3,600 square kilometers; it is shaped like a tobacco leaf that is narrow at both ends.
		The government has established 6 national parks and 11 national scenic areas to preserve Taiwan’s best natural ecological environment and cultural sites.
		Taiwan’s railroads are far more than just a tool of transportation; they embody a deep affinity with the development of local culture and society, and have left behind large numbers of historic relics, including old stations and track sections that hark back to the past and reveal unique facets of local history.
	www.worldpress.org /Asia/2012.cfm

	Discovering the Beauty of Taiwan's Ecology
		However, due to the large proportion of public expenditure devoted to the development of infrastructure on urban area during the past decades, the sustainability of urban area in Taiwan has improved.
		The preliminary assessment of the trend of sustainable development for Island Taiwan and Urban Taiwan shows that the overall sustainability of Taiwan is not improving (Figure 2).
		Although air and noise pollution within urban areas have improved during the past decade, the problem of stream quality remains due to the low percentage of waste water treatment.
	south-africa.roc-taiwan.org.uk /taiwan/5-gp/eco/html/part5-7.htm

	Urban Traffic
		Urban planners in all of Taiwan's metropolitan areas must cope with a similar set of challenges: a soaring number of new motorcycles and cars, a limited number of streets, and the complexities of acquiring very scarce space for improvements.
		The traffic in Taipei City and the greater Taipei metropolitan area is considered the worst among Taiwan's major cities.
		Kaohsiung City is Taiwan's second-largest metropolitan area and largest port city.
	www.taiwaninfo.org /info/yb96/nf_html/ch14_5.html

	LHMI Fact Sheet: Taiwan
		With a total area of nearly 13,899 square miles, Taiwan is separated from the Chinese mainland by the 137 mile-wide Taiwan Strait.
		About 60 percent of Taiwan's population of 22 million is concentrated in four metropolitan areas: Taipei, Kaohsiung, Taichung, and Tainan.
		Taiwan, one of the islands of this chain, is the largest body of land between Japan and the Philippines.
	www.lhmint.org /facts/taiwan

	soc.culture.taiwan FAQ (part 5/6) -- Tourism
		(Note: In some areas in Taiwan, especially for the wilderness area and/or some villages inhabitated by the aborigines in the mountainous region, a Class A/B Mountain Permit might be required for people other than the local residents.
		Taiwan Provincial Museum (currently in a reconstruction phase and is close to the public) lies in the north side of the park, where some interesting artifacts made by Taiwanese aborigines are in display.
		Therefore if you are travelling to Taiwan with these devices, you are recommended to bring with you at least one extension cord with 2-prong plugs (usually one prong wider than the other) whose receptacles accepts 3-prong plugs.
	www.cs.uu.nl /wais/html/na-dir/Taiwan-faq/tourism.html

	Education & Workforce Participation Taiwan
		Uniform national education policies such as Taiwan's 1968 reform might be expected to be the hardest to implement/enforce in non-urban areas, where they have the greatest potential impact but also face stronger norms (especially sexual biases) and often higher transportation and/or opportunity costs associated with schooling (see Section 2).
		Not surprisingly, schooling attainments in non-urban areas of Taiwan-sheng lagged far behind those in urban areas, with the non-urban/urban disparities typically appreciably larger than either those across non-urban localities or those across cities in Taiwan-sheng and the two designated metropolitan areas of Taipei and Kaohsiung.
		Most notably, Kaohsiung-shi becomes a distinct administrative unit (Taiwan's second municipality) beginning in the 1979 survey, and it is desirable to distinguish this from other urban areas outside of Taipei.
	www.fas.harvard.edu /~asiactr/haq/199904/9904a006.htm

	ROC Red Cross marks 100th birthday
		To demonstrate the distinct role played by the organization in Taiwan, it is appropriate to note that the society is the only privately run non-profit organization in Taiwan to be regulated by national law.
		While the society is the oldest non-profit organization in Taiwan, other non-profit groups, such as the Buddhist Compassionate Relief Tzu Chi Foundation and World Vision Taiwan have become, for lack of a better term, the competition in terms of attracting donations.
		It was also active in promoting health education in the 1960s and 1970s in Taiwan and set the foundation for the nation's blood bank.
	www.taiwanheadlines.gov.tw /20040310/20040310s1.html

	about the Flag of Taiwan
		Official flag of Taiwan currently used in Olympic Games and other international sports events, in which Taiwan is called "Chinese Taipei," regardless the fact that the Chinese only comprise a small portion of Taiwan's residents and Taipei is just one of many metropolitan areas in Taiwan.
		(Disputed) Flag currently used by the government, which calls Taiwan as "the Republic of CHINA (on Taiwan)".
		The reason was that he was waving this ROC flag during the game.
	www.usc.edu /dept/TSA/flags.html

	Kaohsiung Incident Kaohsiung International Airport
		Kaohsiung Kaohsiung City City flag City seal Abbreviation: Kaohsiung ( City nickname: The Harbor City Capital District Linya Dist. Region Southern Taiwan Mayor Hsieh Chang-ting Area Ranked 19 of 25 Total % water 153.
		In 1895 Taiwan was ceded to Japan as part of the Treaty of Shimonoseki.
		In 1684 Kaohsiung was renamed Fengshan County (鳳山縣), and considered a part of Taiwan Prefecture.
	www.masterliness.com /a/Kaohsiung.htm

	pdcat2001.txt
		(Taiwan) IMPORTANT DATES Paper and Proposal Submissions Due: January 1, 2001 Notification of Acceptance/Rejection: March 1, 2001 Camera-ready Papers Due: April 15, 2001 For more information or to be placed on the mailing list, please contact the program chair.
		PDCAT 2001 will be held in Taipei, Taiwan, and will include keynote addresses, contributed papers, tutorials, and workshops.
		PURPOSE The International Conference on Parallel and Distributed Computing, Applications, and Techniques (PDCAT) is a major forum for scientists, engineers, and practitioners throughout the world to present the latest research, results, ideas, development, applications, and techniques in all areas of parallel and distributed computing.
	www.cs.utah.edu /impulse/conferences/pdcat2001.txt

	bulgaria.ca - Metropolitan regions of Norway
		There are 16 metropolitan regions (" Byregioner ", City Regions) in Norway.
		Suggested Web Sites about Metropolitan regions of Norway
	www.bulgaria.ca /Metropolitan-regions-of-Norway/reference/fullview/wikipedia/1246689

	The behaviour of purchasing smuggled cigarettes in Taiwan -- Tsai et al. 12 (1): 28 -- Tobacco Control
		Taiwan police have seized an average of 19 611 921 packs of
		in metropolitan areas, and 13.73% (n = 60) were unemployed.
		The behaviour of purchasing smuggled cigarettes in Taiwan -- Tsai et al.
	tc.bmjjournals.com /cgi/content/full/12/1/28

	Exchanges: List of Contributors
		While her graduate training was in the area of cellular biology, her long-term interests in teaching and learning brought her to Fullerton at a time of great change.
		Her interests are in the area of pragmatics, discourse analysis, and second/foreign language acquisition and teaching.
		Her area of special interest is contemporary American Studies, including literature, race and ethnicity, popular culture, and women's studies.
	www.exchangesjournal.org /ex_contributors.html

	Development of Personal Communications Services for Taiwan Areas
		As the fast-growing economy continues to flourish in the country, we estimate conservatively that the market potential of mobile users in the Taiwan area is approximately 1.3 million in 1997 and 2.5 million by the turn of the century.
		Also, the service area has been enlarged from initial coverage of some isolated metropolitan areas to the whole area of Taiwan.
		6, besides the TL trial area, the trial also covers the service areas of the three regional telecommunication administrations, NTTA, CTTA, and STTA.
	www.comsoc.org /pci/private/1997/apr/Shih.html

	NCSL: Legislative Staff Management Institute (LSMI)
		One of Lee's areas of expertise is governmental external communications and public relations.
		She recently retired from the Senate Office of Research and currently volunteers on a number of nonprofit boards in the areas of civic education, youth development and international environmental policy.
		Gilbert is widely published in the areas of human resources management, policy management, organizational development and organizational design.
	www.ncsl.org /public/lsmi/LSMI.htm

	Transportation and Telecommunications
		Urban planners in all of Taiwan's metropolitan areas must cope with a similar set of challenges: a soaring number of new motorcycles and cars, a limited number of streets, and the complexities of acquiring very scarce space for improvements.
		There are currently two international airports in the Taiwan area: Chiang Kai-shek (CKS) International Airport ¤¤¥¿°ê»Ú¾÷³õ at Taoyuan in northern Taiwan and Kaohsiung International Airport °ª¶¯°ê»Ú¾÷³õ in the south.
		The port's water area is approximately 12.42 square kilometers, and the inner harbor has a depth of 16 meters.
	www.roc-taiwan.org /taiwan/5-gp/yearbook/2003/chpt14.htm

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