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This is an alphabetical list of countries and some dependent territories and subnational areas which lays out the incarceration rate of each. [1] Prison population rates from World Prison Brief. See date on map.
[72] [47] In the 50-year period of Japanese rule that followed, the Taiwanese aborigines lost their right to legal ownership of land and were confined to small reserves one-eighth the size of their ancestral lands. [73] However even had Japan not taken over Taiwan, the plains aborigines were on the way to losing their residual rights to land.
Liu Yongfu formed a temporary government in Tainan but escaped to the mainland as well as Japanese forces closed in. [48] Between 200,000 and 300,000 people fled Taiwan in 1895. [49] [50] Chinese residents in Taiwan were given the option of selling their property and leaving by May 1897, or become Japanese citizens. From 1895 to 1897, an ...
15.7 million people 2017 8 10 [84] International Tourism Expenditure per capita 760 USD 2017 14 25 [85] International tourist arrivals in Asian Pacific region 10,740,000 people 2017 12 48 [86] Tourism competitiveness: 4.47 score 2017 30 136 [87]
Taiwan, [II] [i] officially the Republic of China (ROC), [I] [j] is a country [27] in East Asia. [m] The main island of Taiwan, also known as Formosa, lies between the East and South China Seas in the northwestern Pacific Ocean, with the People's Republic of China (PRC) to the northwest, Japan to the northeast, and the Philippines to the south.
The state, a.k.a. the "Republic of China" (ROC), including all 168 islands administered by the ROC; The traditional Taiwan region (本島地區), excluding Kinmen, Matsu, and Wuqiu, which are traditionally parts of Fujian Province, and also excluding the ROC-controlled South China Sea Islands;
The population of Taiwan is approximately 23.35 million as of April 2023. [1]Immigration of Han Chinese to the Penghu Islands started as early as the 13th century. The main island was inhabited by a diversity of Taiwanese indigenous peoples speaking Austronesian languages until Han settlement began in the early 17th century, around the time of the Ming–Qing transition, when workers were ...
This is a list of the world's countries and their dependencies, ranked by total area, including land and water. This list includes entries that are not limited to those in the ISO 3166-1 standard, which covers sovereign states and dependent territories. All 193 member states of the United Nations plus the two observer states are given a rank ...