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Evidence from genetics, archaeology, linguistics, and physical anthropology indicates that the ancestry of Polynesian people stretches all the way back to indigenous peoples of Taiwan. Language-evolution studies [ 1 ] and mtDNA evidence [ 2 ] suggest that most Pacific populations originated from Taiwanese indigenous peoples around 5,200 years ...
[194] [195] However, Māori have a wide range of life expectancies across regions: Māori living in the Marlborough region have the highest life expectancy at 79.9 years for males and 83.4 years for females, while Māori living in the Gisborne region have the lowest life expectancy at 71.2 years for males and 75.2 years for females.
A map showing the migration of the Austronesians out of Taiwan from c. 3000 BC Plains Indigenous boy and woman by Paul Ibis, 1877 Indigenous Taiwanese are Austronesian peoples , with linguistic and genetic ties to other Austronesian ethnic groups, such as peoples of the Philippines , Malaysia , Indonesia , Madagascar , and Oceania .
The vast majority either inhabit independent Polynesian nation-states (Samoa, Niue, Cook Islands, Tonga, and Tuvalu) or form minorities in countries such as Australia, Chile (Easter Island), New Zealand, France (French Polynesia and Wallis and Futuna), and the United States (Hawaii and American Samoa), as well as in the British Overseas ...
The Austronesian peoples refer to people sometimes referred to as Austronesian-speaking peoples, [44] and are meant to refer to a large group of peoples from places such as Taiwan, Maritime Southeast Asia, parts of Mainland Southeast Asia, Micronesia, coastal New Guinea, Island Melanesia, Polynesia, and Madagascar that speak languages that have been categorized by some as Austronesian languages.
The island country became independent in 1974 but still have a free association agreement with New Zealand and many of its citizens have become citizens of New Zealand. Now the Island country has a democracy and is governed by a legislative assembly consisting of 20 members. Niue is the smallest democracy in the world.
WASHINGTON (Reuters) -A video feed of a Taiwanese minister was cut during U.S. President Joe Biden's Summit for Democracy last week after a map in her slide presentation showed Taiwan in a ...
Eastern Taiwan: Yilan, Hualien and Taitung. Western Taiwan: other divisions from Taipei to Pingtung. Northern and Southern Taiwan: Zhuoshui River, the longest river of Taiwan, flows through about the middle of the island. Northern Taiwan: Taipei, New Taipei, Keelung, Taoyuan, Hsinchu (City/County), Miaoli, Taichung, Changhua, and Nantou.