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Some codes are assigned to Taiwan or Taiwan, Province of China, while some are assigned to the Republic of China. See also Chinese Taipei , political status of Taiwan and China and the United Nations .
The title "Chinese Taipei" has been described as confusing, as it leads some people to believe that "Taipei" is a country or that it is located in or governed by mainland China. Taiwanese Olympian Chi Cheng has described competing under the name as "aggravating, humiliating and depressing."
The Chinese and Taiwanese entries in the International Organization for Standardization's ISO 3166-1 country codes and ISO 3166-2:TW subdivision codes are as follows because its information source, the publication UN Terminology Bulletin-Country Names, lists Taiwan as "Taiwan, Province of China" due to the PRC's political influence in the ...
ISO 3166-2:TW is the entry for Taiwan, [1] "Taiwan, Province of China", [2] or "Taiwan (Province of China)", [3] in ISO 3166-2, part of the ISO 3166 standard published by the International Organization for Standardization (ISO), which defines codes for the names of the principal subdivisions (e.g., provinces or states) of all countries coded in ISO 3166-1.
Provinces (Chinese: 省; pinyin: Shěng) are the most numerous type of province-level divisions in the People's Republic of China (PRC). There are currently 22 provinces administered by the PRC and one province that is claimed, but not administered, which is Taiwan , currently administered by the Republic of China (ROC).
Despite formal status of a province, the term "Taiwan Province" is now only used in the most formal circumstances such as National People's Congress. [citation needed] In domestic contexts that excludes Hong Kong and Macau, the number of provinces (including autonomous regions, municipalities) is always stated as 31 (Taiwan is not counted).
Provinces remain a titular division as a part of the Constitution of the Republic of China, but are no longer considered to have any administrative function practically. [2] [3] Taiwan Province covers approximately 69% of the island of Taiwan, and comprises around 31% of the total population.
The following is a list of administrative divisions of the Republic of China (Taiwan), including 6 special municipalities and 2 nominal provinces [a] as the de jure first-level administrative divisions. 11 counties and 3 cities were nominally under the jurisdiction of the Taiwan Province, and 2 additional counties being part of the ROC's Fujian Province.