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Short name
Taiwan
Local names
T'ai-wan (short)
Former name
Formosa
Nationality
Taiwan (singular and plural) (noun) T'ai-wan (adjective)
Languages spoken
Mandarin Chinese (official), Taiwanese (Min), Hakka dialects
Capital
Taipei
Government type
multiparty democracy
Population
22,920,946 ranked 52, (data 2008)
Geography
strategic location adjacent to both the Taiwan Strait and the Luzon Strait. The lowest point is South China Sea 0 m.
Coastline
Coastline 1,566 km.
Land borders
0km,
Administrative divisions
includes main island of Taiwan plus smaller islands nearby and off coast of China's Fujian Province; Taiwan is divided into 18 counties (hsien, singular and plural), 5 municipalities (shih, singular and plural), and 2 special municipalities (chuan-shih, singular and plural)
counties: Changhua, Chiayi [county], Hsinchu, Hualien, Kaohsiung [county], Kinmen, Lienchiang, Miaoli, Nantou, Penghu, Pingtung, Taichung, Tainan, Taipei [county], Taitung, Taoyuan, Yilan, and Yunlin
Taiwan uses a variety of romanization systems; while a modified Wade-Giles system still dominates, the city of Taipei has adopted a Pinyin romanization for street and place names within its boundaries; other local authorities use different romanization systems; names for administrative divisions that follow are taken from the Taiwan Yearbook 2007 published by the Government Information Office in Taipei.