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The Taiwan Strait is a 180-kilometer (110 mi; 97 nmi)-wide strait separating the island of Taiwan and the Asian continent. The strait is part of the South China Sea and connects to the East China Sea to the north.
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Map of Taiwan with the western coast pointed downwards, c. 1640 (from History of Taiwan) Image 28 Population density map of Taiwan in 2019 (from History of Taiwan ) Image 29 Portrait of Zheng Jing (1642–1681), possibly 17th c. (from History of Taiwan )
In the Late Pleistocene, sea levels were about 140 metres (460 ft) lower than at present, exposing the floor of the shallow Taiwan Strait as a land bridge. [6] A concentration of vertebrate fossils has been found in the channel between the Penghu Islands and Taiwan, including a partial jawbone designated Penghu 1, apparently belonging to a previously unknown species of genus Homo, dated ...
The Penghu (/ ˈ p ʌ ŋ ˈ h uː / PUNG-HOO, [1] Hokkien POJ: Phîⁿ-ô͘ or Phêⁿ-ô͘) or Pescadores Islands are an archipelago of 90 islands and islets in the Taiwan Strait, about 50 km (31 mi) west of the main island of Taiwan across the Penghu Channel, covering an area of 141 square kilometers (54 sq mi).
Bathymetric map of the Taiwan Strait; Taiwan Bank is labeled. Map of Taiwan compiled by Charles Le Gendre in 1870, with Taiwan Bank labeled as "Formosa Banks". Taiwan Bank, or Taiwan Shoal, is an ocean bank located on the seabed at the southern end of the Taiwan Strait. It is to the southwest of Penghu Islands and to the east of the Nanpeng ...
The history of Cross-Strait relations introduces the historical changes in the relationship between China and Taiwan since the beginning of time. Suspected records of Taiwan in the history of China date back to the earliest times, when Yizhou (island) was mentioned in the "Three Kingdoms", or Liuqiu in the "Book of Sui". [1]