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Taiwan Province (台灣省) is an administrative subdivision of the Republic of China (ROC) that includes most of the Taiwan Island and surrounding islets, and the Pescadores. Even though the province-level municipalities of Taipei City and Kaohsiung City are on the island of Taiwan, they are not administratively part of the Province. Taiwan Province also excludes Kinmen and Lienchiang Counties, which are adminstered as the ROC part of Fujian Province. The capital of Taiwan Province is Jhongsing Village.

The term is also used by persons from the People's Republic of China to refer to Taiwan and depending on the context (if referring to the entire ROC government as "provincial") can provoke a bad reaction by most people from Taiwan. The PRC state press commonly uses the term "China's Taiwan province" to refer to Taiwan and "the Taiwan authority" to refer to the ROC government. (see political status of Taiwan)

1 Political divisions

Taiwan Province contains 16 counties, 5 provincial cities and 32 county-controlled cities:

Counties

  • Chiayi
  • ChanghuaChanghua County Changhua County emblem Abbreviation: Changhua ( Capital Changhua City Region Western Taiwan County magistrate Wueng Jin-jhu Area Ranked 15 of 18 Total % water 1,074. 396 kmē ?% Population Ranked 4 of 18 Total ( April 2004) Density 1,316,32
  • HsinchuHsinchu County Hsinchu County emblem Abbreviation: Zhu ( Capital Jhubei City Region Northwestern Taiwan County magistrate Cheng Yung-chin Area Ranked 12 of 18 Total % water 1,427. 59 kmē ?% Population Ranked 13 of 18 Total ( April 2004) Density 461,566 32
  • Hualienzh-tw: Hualien County Hualien County emblem Abbreviation: Hualien ( Capital Hualien City Region Eastern Taiwan County magistrate Hsieh Shen-shan Area Ranked 1 of 18 Total % water 4,628. 57141 kmē 1. 0% Population Ranked 14 of 18 Total ( April 1, 2004) Den
  • KaohsiungKaohsiung County Kaohsiung County emblem Abbreviation: Capital Fongshan City Region Southern Taiwan County magistrate Yang Ch'iu-hsing Area Ranked 4 of 18 Total % water 2,792. 66 kmē ?% Population Ranked 5 of 18 Total ( April 2004) Density 1,237,501 443/k
  • MiaoliMiaoli County Miaoli County emblem Abbreviation: Miaoli ( or Miao ( Capital Miaoli City Region Eastern Taiwan County magistrate Fu Hsueh-p'eng Area Ranked 11 of 18 Total % water 1,820. 3149 kmē (Percent water goes here)% Population Ranked 9 of 18 Total (
  • NantouNantou County Nantou County emblem Abbreviation: Tou ( Capital Nantou City Region Central Taiwan County magistrate Lin Tseng-nan Area Ranked 2 of 18 Total % water 4,106. 436 kmē ?% Population Ranked 11 of 18 Total ( March 2004) Density 539,721 131/kmē Cit
  • Pescadores (Penghu)
  • PingtungPingtung County Pingtung County emblem Abbreviation: Pingtung ( Capital Pingtung City Region Southern Taiwan County magistrateWu Ying-wen (Acting) Area Ranked 5 of 18 Total % water 2,775. 6003 kmē (Percent water goes here)% Population Ranked 7 of 18 Total
  • TaichungTaichung County Taichung County emblem Abbreviation: Taichung ( Capital Fongyuan City Region Central Taiwan County magistrate Huang Chung-sheng Area Ranked 8 of 25 Total % water 2,051. 4712 kmē (Percent water goes here)% Population Ranked 4 of 25 Total (
  • Tainan
  • Taipei
  • Taitung
  • Taoyuan
  • Yilan
  • Yunlin

Municipalities

Note: The cities of Taipei and Kaohsiung are administered directly by the central government and are not part of Taiwan province, though the counties of the same name surrounding these cities are part of the province.

See also: Political divisions of the Republic of China



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