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Capital: taipei
Country name
: conventional long form: none conventional short form: taiwan local long form: none local short form: t'ai-wan former: formosa
National holiday: republic day (anniversary of the chinese revolution). 10 october (1911)
Government type
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multiparty democratic regime headed by popularly-elected president and unicameral legislature
Administrative divisions: includes central island of taiwan plus numerous smaller islands near central island and off coast of china's fujian province; taiwan is divided into 18 counties (hsien. singular and plural). 5 municipalities (shih. singular and plural). and 2 special municipalities (chuan-shih. singular and plural) : counties: chang-hua. chia-i. hsin-chu. hua-lien. i-lan. kao-hsiung county. kin-men. lien-chiang. miao-li. nan-t'ou. p'eng-hu. p'ing-tung. t'ai-chung. t'ai-nan. t'ai-pei county. t'ai-tung. t'ao-yuan. and yun-lin : municipalities: chia-i. chi-lung. hsin-chu. t'ai-chung. t'ai-nan : special municipalities: kao-hsiung city. t'ai-pei city note: taiwan generally uses wade-giles system for romanization; special municipality of taipei adopted standard pinyin romanization for street and place names within city boundaries. other local authorities have selected a variety of romanization systems |
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Independence:
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Political parties and leaders: democratic progressive party or dpp [annette lu. acting chairwoman]; kuomintang or kmt (nationalist party) [ma ying-jeou. chairman]; people first party or pfp [james soong (soong chu-yu). chairman]; taiwan solidarity union or tsu [su chin-chiang. chairman]; other minor parties including the chinese new party or cnp
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Political pressure groups and leaders:
taiwan independence movement. various business and environmental groups note: debate on taiwan independence has become acceptable within the mainstream of domestic politics on taiwan; political liberalization and the increased representation of opposition parties in taiwan's legislature have opened public debate on the island's national identity; a broad popular consensus has developed that taiwan currently enjoys de facto independence and - whatever the ultimate outcome regarding reunification or independence - that taiwan's people must have the deciding voice; advocates of taiwan independence oppose the stand that the island will eventually unify with mainland china; goals of the taiwan independence movement include establishing a sovereign nation on taiwan and entering the un; other organizations supporting taiwan independence include the world united formosans for independence and the organization for taiwan nation building
International organization participation
: apec. asdb. icc. icftu. icrm. ifrcs. ioc. wcl. wto
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