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Location: Asia
Capital: Taipei (2.640.000 inhab.)
Main Cities: Kaohsiung, Taichung, Tainan, Keelung, Hsinchu, Chungho, Sanchung
Population: 22,270,000
Area: 36,202 km2
Coin: 1 new Taiwan dollar = 100 cents
Languages: Mandarin Chinese
Religions: Buddhist, Taoist, Christian
The Independence's Year: 1949
Mountains: Mt.Yushan (3997 m.) |
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The country is constituted from an island of the China Sea, separated from China by the Taiwan Strait.
The territory is mountainous, with a chain of reliefs that cuts the island in longitudinal sense and that touches lightly the 4.000 meters msl (Mt. Yushan 3.997 meters). The nation was constituted by the general Chiang Kai-shek that in 1949 remedied on the island (then Formosa) after the proclamation of the Chinese Popular Republic.
The democracy is arrived at Taiwan only in 1987 and only in 1991 the state of mobilization toward the Chinese Popular Republic ceased.
Today Taiwan is a rich country, with economic constant growth and low unemployment, despite the numerous population (density: 600 inhab/ Kmq).
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