Bicyclist pedals uphill at the Taroko National Park | Taroko Gorge in Taiwan

File: Yao Zhicheng. jpg | Yao Yecheng ( 姚冶誠, 1889 – 1972 ) Came to Taiwan and died in Taipei.

File: China_average_annual_precipitation_ ( en ). png | The average annual precipitation in different regions of China ( including its claim over Taiwan )

A Cartographic relief depiction | relief map of Taiwan.

Image: June 2011 Landslide Scars in Taiwan. jpg | Natural-colour satellite image of landslide scarred mountains in central Taiwan.

Scooter ( motorcycle ) | Scooter s are a very common means of transportation in Taiwan and contribute to urban air pollution.

A TSMC factory in Southern Taiwan Science Park | Tainan Science Park, one of the many companies that make up Taiwan's IT industry.

A tea plantation in Ruisui, Hualien | Ruisui, Hualien County | Hualien, part of Taiwan's agricultural industry which served as the backbone for its Taiwan Miracle | economic miracle.

A Taoist Temple in Taiwan, showing elements of the Jingxiang religious practice and sculptures of Dragon and Chinese guardian lions | Lion guardians

Taiwan, Mainland China, Hong Kong and ( other ) countries are linked to Culture of China | Chinese cultural and political history.

Hualien City | Hualien, Taiwan

This orthography is a predecessor of the Sinckan Manuscripts | Sinckan writing ( 新港文書 ), a kind of land contract written by Plain aborigines ( 平埔族 ) of the Xingang Tribe ( 新港社 ), Taiwan, between later half of 17 century and first half of 19 century.

Bunun people | Bunun mother and child in sling in Lona Village, Taiwan

Bunun dancer just before her performance in Lona, Nantou | Lona, Nantou County, Taiwan

Territory controlled by the People's Republic of China ( purple ) and the Republic of China | Republic of China ( Taiwan ) ( orange ).

The Presidential Building ( Taiwan ) | Presidential Building is located in Zhongzheng District, Taipei City.

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Prior to January 1, 2007 all vehicles registered in Taiwan Province carried the label " Taiwan Province " ( 台灣省 ) on their Vehicle registration plates of Taiwan | license plates.

Through the support of the Western bloc ( most Western countries continued to recognize the ROC as the sole legitimate government of China ), the Republic of China on Taiwan retained China's seat in the United Nations until 1971.

** Standard Chinese, the standard form of the Chinese language in China, Taiwan and Singapore, and the variety most commonly taught as a foreign language

When Chiang was defeated by CPC forces in mainland China in 1949, he retreated to Taiwan with his government and his most disciplined troops, along with most of the KMT leadership and a large number of their supporters ; Chiang Kai-shek had taken effective control of Taiwan at the end of WWII as part of the overall Japanese surrender, when Japanese troops in Taiwan surrendered to Republic of China troops.

In mainland China, wubi ( shape-based ) and pinyin methods such as Sogou Pinyin and Google Pinyin are the most popular ; in Taiwan, Boshiamy, Cangjie, and zhuyin predominate ; and in Hong Kong, Cangjie is most often taught in schools.

Outside of Europe and North America, engineering graduates per-capita, and hence probably electrical engineering graduates also, are most numerous in Taiwan, Japan, and South Korea.

* Unusual fruit or wonder fruit ( 奇異果 Pinyin: qíyì guǒ, Jyutping: kei4 ji6 gwo2 ): the most common name in Taiwan and Hong Kong, a quasi-transliteration of " kiwifruit ", literally " strange fruit "

It is used by most research and academic libraries in the U. S. and several other countries ; for example, Australia and Taiwan, ROC Most public libraries and small academic libraries continue to use the older Dewey Decimal Classification ( DDC ).

Progestin-only EC is available as a dedicated emergency contraceptive product under many names worldwide, including: in the U. S., Canada and Honduras as Plan B ; in Great Britain, Ireland, Australia, New Zealand, Portugal and Italy as Levonelle ; in South Africa as Escapelle ; in 44 nations including France, most of Western Europe, India, and several countries in Africa, Asia and Latin America as NorLevo ; and in 44 nations including most of Eastern Europe, Mexico and many other Latin American countries, Portugal, Australia and New Zealand, Israel, China, Hong Kong, Taiwan and Singapore as Postinor-2.

This standard can now be spoken intelligibly by most younger people in Mainland China and Taiwan, with various regional accents.

NTSC, named for the National Television System Committee, is the analog television system that is used in most of North America, parts of South America ( except Brazil, Argentina, Uruguay, and French Guiana ), Myanmar, South Korea, Taiwan, Japan, the Philippines, and some Pacific island nations and territories ( see map ).

This original use, as distinct from surgeon, is common in most of the world including the United Kingdom and other Commonwealth countries ( such as Australia, Bangladesh, India, New Zealand, Pakistan, South Africa, Sri Lanka, Zimbabwe ), as well as in places as diverse as Brazil, Hong Kong, Indonesia, Japan, Ireland, and Taiwan.

The most catastrophic recent earthquake was the magnitude-7. 3 Chi-Chi earthquake, which occurred in the center of Taiwan on 21 September 1999, killing more than 2, 400 people.

Taiwan imports most of its energy needs.

Curiously, the Taiwanese version of beef noodle soup remains one of the most popular dishes in Taiwan, in spite of this traditional aversion.

The most common place to enjoy xiaochi in Taiwan is in a night market.

This dish is very common in night markets as it is the most popular snack in Taiwan.

At the end of World War II in 1945, Taiwan was taken over by the ROC forces who, then, ruled most of mainland China.

In Taiwan, Wolong Sheng, Sima Ling, Zhuge Qingyun ( 诸葛青云 ) and later Xiao Yi ( 萧逸 ) and Gu Long became the region's most famous wuxia writers.

Despite its difficulty of learning, this method remains popular in Chinese communities that use traditional Chinese characters, such as Hong Kong and Taiwan ; it is also the first method that allowed users to enter more than a hundred Chinese characters per minute.

The sport is also very popular in Belgium and Taiwan, and is played in 54 other countries.

In the Philippines and Taiwan, kumquats are a popular addition to green tea and black tea, either hot or iced.

This story is popular in Zhejiang, Taiwan, and especially Fujian.

Tobacco mixed with opium was called madak ( or madat ) and became popular throughout China and its seafaring trade partners ( such as Taiwan, Java and the Philippines ) in the seventeenth century.

A traditional Chinese edition, known as 科學人 (“ Scientist ” in Chinese ), was introduced to Taiwan in 2002, and has been developed to the best popular science magazine in Taiwan.

* Stinky tofu or Fermented Tofu ( Chinese: 臭豆腐 Stinky to-fu is a popular local food in Taiwan and many other Chinese regions such as Hong Kong and Shanghai.

Penhold styles are popular among players originating from East Asian regions such as China, Taiwan, Japan, and South Korea. Traditionally, penhold players use only one side of the racket to hit the ball during normal play, and the side which is in contact with the last three fingers is generally not used.

Wuxia stories have become a new genre of writing within Chinese society and have remained popular in several countries with significant Chinese-speaking communities, such as Taiwan, Singapore, Vietnam and Malaysia.

It constitutes an important and popular cultural activity in many Asian and Oceanic countries, including Pakistan, the Maldives, India, Nepal, Sri Lanka, Bhutan, Bangladesh, Burma ( Myanmar ), China, Laos, Thailand, Malaysia, Indonesia, Cambodia, Vietnam, Taiwan, the Philippines, Palau, Yap, Guam, Papua New Guinea, the Solomon Islands, and Vanuatu.

Although the interpretation of the peace treaties was used to challenge the legitimacy of the ROC on Taiwan before the 1990s, the introduction of popular elections in Taiwan has compromised this position.

Except for the most extreme Taiwan independence supporters, most Taiwanese support the popular sovereignty theory and no longer see much conflict between this theory of sovereignty and the ROC position.

In this sense, the ROC government currently administering Taiwan is not the same ROC which accepted Japanese surrender because the ruling authorities were given popular mandate by different pools of constituencies: one is the mainland Chinese electorate, the other is the Taiwanese constituencies.

The popular sovereignty theory, which the pan-green coalition emphasizes, suggests that Taiwan could make fundamental constitutional changes by means of a popular referendum.

Although popular among Nationalists during the Sino-Japanese War ( 1937-1945 ), the song was banned in the Republic of China, also known as Taiwan, until the 1990s.

Despite his Mainlander background, Soong proved to be a popular politician among all ethnic groups on Taiwan, in part because he was one of the first KMT politicians to attempt to use the Taiwanese language in political and formal occasions.

One common belief from the pro-blue camp in Taiwan is that Lee Teng-hui favored the unpopular Vice President Lien Chan over the highly popular Soong in a deliberate effort to sabotage the Kuomintang and was secretly supporting Chen, despite the fact that Lee is supposed to favor Kuomintang's own nominee Lien.

Bento is also popular in Taiwan.

Bendong ( Taiwanese: piān-tong ) or Biandang ( 便當, " convenience pack ") made its way to Taiwan in the first half of the 20th century from Japan, where it remains very popular to the present day.