It was conducted by about 460 teams situated in 21 courthouses across the Taiwan area.

The main island is located some off the southeastern coast of China across the Taiwan Strait.

Species of Cyclobalanopsis are common in the evergreen subtropical laurel forests which extend from southern Japan, southern Korea, and Taiwan across southern China and northern Indochina to the eastern Himalayas, in association with trees of genus Castanopsis and the laurel family ( Lauraceae ).

It was colonized by the Dutch in the 17th century, followed by an influx of Han Chinese including Hakka immigrants from areas of Fujian and Guangdong of mainland China, across the Taiwan Strait.

Malayo-Polynesian languages are now spoken across a huge area from Madagascar to Hawaii, Easter Island and New Zealand, but form only one branch of the Austronesian family, the rest of whose branches are found only on Taiwan.

In the immediate aftermath of World War II, post-war economic conditions compounded with the then-ongoing Chinese Civil War caused severe inflation across mainland China and in Taiwan, made worse by disastrous currency reforms and corruption.

The first inhabitants of Tuvalu were Polynesians so that the origins of the people of Tuvalu is addressed in the theories regarding the spread of humans out of Southeast Asia, from Taiwan, via Melanesia and across the Pacific islands to create Polynesia.

Therefore, the current political separation across the Taiwan strait is only temporary and a reunified China including both mainland China and Taiwan will be the result.

Meanwhile, China had no ability to ferry troops across the 100-mile wide Taiwan Strait and conquer the island.

The Strait has been the theatre for several military confrontations between Mainland China and Taiwan since the last days of the Chinese Civil War in 1949 when the Kuomintang ( KMT ) forces led by Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek retreated across the Strait and relocated its government on its final stronghold of Taiwan.

As part of the People's Republic of China's National Expressway Plan, a tunnel or possibly a bridge, was proposed in 2005 to link the cities of Fuzhou, Fujian, China with Taipei, Taiwan across the strait （ Map ）.

Google Maps contains several Easter eggs whereby a user asking for directions from Japan to China, from New York to Tokyo, or from Taiwan to China would be directed to either jetski, kayak, or swim across the Pacific Ocean.

On March 13, the Pan-Blue Coalition held 24 rallies across Taiwan.

Sit-ins were held in front of courthouses across Taiwan, with some protests becoming violent.

It was conducted by about 460 teams situated in 21 courthouses across the Taiwan area.

* On November 6, 2008, more than 500 students across Taiwan began a sit-in protest in front of the Executive Yuan.

The Ipswich City Council Safe City Monitoring Facility has hosted representatives of law enforcement agencies from the Netherlands, Taiwan, Great Britain and approximately twenty-five local authorities from across Australia to inspect the camera monitoring system.

The remaining are scattered across America and Taiwan.

In a swift campaign in the last week of March the Japanese captured the islands, preventing further Chinese reinforcements from being sent across the Taiwan Strait to Taiwan.

The opening is seen as a symbol of deepening economic ties across Taiwan Strait Bank of China ( M ) Bhd opened its 6th branch in Malaysia at Tower 2, PFCC, Bandar Puteri Puchong in 2012.

It is situated in the northwest extremity of the North American continent, with Canada to the east, the Arctic Ocean to the north, and the Pacific Ocean to the west and south, with Russia further west across the Bering Strait.

There was, though, some Russian colonization of the Americas across the Bering Strait.

* 711 30 April – The Umayyad general Tariq ibn Ziyad, leading a Berber-dominated army, sailed across the Strait from Ceuta.

During the Roman period Britain ’ s continental trade was principally directed across the Southern North Sea and Eastern Channel, focusing on the narrow Strait of Dover, though there were also more limited links via the Atlantic seaways.

Carthage at the time was in such a poor state that its navy was unable to transport his army to Iberia ( Hispania ); instead, Hamilcar had to march it towards the Pillars of Hercules and transport it across the Strait of Gibraltar ( present-day Morocco / Spain ).

In the early Pleistocene, the forerunners of modern jaguars crept across Beringia, the land bridge that once spanned the Bering Strait and connected Asia and North America.

There is no geological evidence of a Krakatoa eruption of this size around that time ; it may describe loss of land which previously joined Java to Sumatra across what is now the narrow east end of the Sunda Strait ; or it may be a mistaken date, referring to a later eruption in 535 AD, for which there is some corroborating historical evidence.

This pressure gradient pushes relatively cool, low-salinity water from the Atlantic across the basin ; it warms and becomes saltier as it travels east, then sinks in the region of the Levant and circulates westward, to spill over the Strait of Gibraltar.

To the northwest of Sumba is Sumbawa, to the northeast, across the Sumba Strait ( Selat Sumba ), is Flores, to the east, across the Savu Sea, is Timor, and to the south, across part of the Indian Ocean, is Australia.

Known until 1972 as Ceylon (,, or ), Sri Lanka has maritime borders with India to the northwest across the Gulf of Mannar and Palk Strait, and the Maldives to the southwest.

The Japanese islands of Honshū and Kyūshū are located some 200 kilometers to the southeast across the Korea Strait ; the Shandong Peninsula of China lies 190 kilometers to the west.

In December 2003, Morocco and Spain agreed to explore the construction of an undersea rail tunnel across the Strait of Gibraltar, to connect their rail systems.

* 1959 – The, Australia ’ s first passenger roll-on / roll-off diesel ferry, makes her maiden voyage across Bass Strait.

* 1943 – World War II: The German 17th Army begins its evacuation of the Kuban River bridgehead ( Taman Peninsula ) in southern Russia and moves across the Strait of Kerch to the Crimea.

A view across the Strait of Gibraltar taken from the hills above Tarifa, Spain.

In December 2003, Spain and Morocco agreed to explore the construction of an undersea rail tunnel to connect their rail systems across the Strait.

To the east is Borneo, across the Karimata Strait.

Tierra del Fuego (, ; Spanish for " Fireland " or " Land of Fire ") is an archipelago off the southernmost tip of the South American mainland, across the Strait of Magellan.

The region is considered to be a part of the Vancouver television market, receiving most stations that broadcast from across the Strait of Georgia, including the CBC, CTV, Citytv, and Global networks.

* September 23 – The M / S Princess of Tasmania ( Australia's first passenger RO / RO diesel ferry ) makes its maiden voyage across the Bass Strait.

They land with a force of 80, 000 men including Alans, and Germanic tribesmen with their families from the Iberian Peninsula across the narrow Strait of Gibraltar.