Taiwan
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- Names
Chung-hua Min-kuo
Taiwan
Taiwán
Republic of China
Province of China Taiwan
Taiwan, Province of China
Province de Chine Taïwan
Nationalist China
Chinese Taipei
ROC
TWN
TW
ISO158
TW00
Taiwanese
T'ai-wan
China
China, Republic of
臺灣
Formosa
- Place Type
- nation
- Description
- Main island originally inhabited by Malayo-Polynesians. The island was settled by the Chinese in the 7th century. Later visited by Portuguese in the 16th century. Migrations occurred in the 17th century from inhabitants of the Chinese Fujian and Guangdong provinces. The Dutch arrived in the 17th century as well. Taiwan became a refuge for Chinese Nationalists in the late 1940s. The official language is Mandarin Chinese.
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- Thesaurus of Geographic Names
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- BHA, Authority file (1973-); Britannica Book of the Year (1991); Britannica Book of the Year (1992); Britannica Book of the Year (1993); Cambridge World Gazetteer (1990); Canby, Historic Places (1984); Columbia Encyclopedia (1975); Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988); Encyclopaedia Britannica Online (2002-); ISO Country Codes (1996); ISO Handbook (1988); NGA/NIMA database (2003-); NIMA, GEOnet Names Server (1996-1998); NIMA, GNS ADM1 Codes (1999); Oxford English Dictionary [online] (2002-)...
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