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After the World War II in 1945, the Republic of China (1912–1949) received Taiwan (Formosa) and Penghu (the Pescadores) from the Empire of Japan. [citation needed] After the Chinese Civil War in 1949, the ROC was reduced to mainly the island of Taiwan and some offshore islands, with the People's Republic of China (PRC) controlling the mainland.
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.
A county, [I] constitutionally known as a hsien, [1] is a de jure second-level administrative division unit in the Republic of China (Taiwan). Under the administrative structure of Taiwan, it is with the same level of a provincial city .
Central Taiwan JSC: Taiwan HC Taichung BC 3: Yunlin, Chiayi City/County, Tainan: Yunlin-Chiayi-Tainan JSC: Taiwan HC Tainan BC 4: Kaohsiung, Pingtung, Penghu: Southern Taiwan JSC: Taiwan HC Kaohsiung BC 5: Hualien, Taitung: Eastern Taiwan JSC: Taiwan HC Hualien BC – Kinmen, Matsu (Lienchiang) Kinmen-Matsu JSC: Fuchien HC Kinmen BC
Code Province County/City English name Native name Type Population [a] Area (km 2) Population density (/km 2) Population 2010 [b] Population change [c]; 65000010 New Taipei City
Name Chinese Hanyu Pinyin Taiwanese Pe̍h-ōe-jī County Founded Population (DEC. 2014) [1] Kaohsiung: 高雄市: Gāoxióng Shì: Ko-hiông-chhī-1979-07-01: 2,778,992
County of Alaska; largest county in the United States, and largest organized political subdivision that is not a state. East Kalimantan: 245,238: Province of Indonesia. Chihuahua: 244,938: Largest state of Mexico. Great Lakes: 244,100: Lake system in North America, predominately between Canada and the United States. Santa Cruz: 243,943
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.