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The Formosan flag had a tiger on a plain blue field with azure clouds below it. During Japanese rule of Taiwan, the flag of Japan was flown in the island from 1895 to 1945. Following the transfer of the control of Taiwan from Japan to China in 1945, the national flag was specified in Article Six of the 1947 Constitution of the Republic of China.
ISO 3166-2 – Codes for the representation of names of countries and their subdivisions – Part 2: Country subdivision code [3] defines codes for the names of the principal subdivisions (e.g., provinces, states, departments, regions) of all countries coded in ISO 3166-1.
Since the China's admission to the International Olympic Committee, Taiwan has been barred from using its own flag in the Olympic Games. Instead, it is called Chinese Taipei and uses the Chinese Taipei flag. The flag is white with a blue-white-red bordered plum blossom, inside which the Taiwan's national emblem sits above the Olympic symbol.
It uses U+1F3F4 WAVING BLACK FLAG and formatting tag characters instead of regional indicator symbols. It is based on ISO 3166-2 regions with hyphen removed and lowercase, e.g. GB-ENG → gbeng, terminating with U+E007F CANCEL TAG. Flag of England is therefore represented by a sequence U+1F3F4, U+E0067, U+E0062, U+E0065, U+E006E, U+E0067, U+E007F.
National flags are adopted by governments to strengthen national bonds and legitimate formal authority. Such flags may contain symbolic elements of their peoples, militaries, territories, rulers, and dynasties. The flag of Denmark is the oldest flag still in current use as it has been recognized as a national symbol since the 14th century.
Taiwan, whose people elect their own leaders and whose government controls a defined area of territory with its own military and passport, enjoys de facto independence even if that is not formally ...
De facto sovereign states with partial international recognition, such as the State of Palestine, the Republic of Kosovo and Taiwan; De facto sovereign states lacking general international recognition; Cook Islands and Niue, two associated states of New Zealand without UN membership
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