Taiwan - Wikipedia Taiwan, [I][k] officially the Republic of China (ROC), [II] is a country [29] in East Asia [n] 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
Taiwan | History, Flag, Map, Capital, Population, Facts | Britannica Taiwan is an island in the western Pacific Ocean that lies roughly 100 miles (160 km) off the coast of southeastern China Taipei, in the north, is the seat of government of the Republic of China (ROC; Nationalist China)
Taiwan Facts, Map, Population, GDP | The World Factbook Taiwan came under Chinese Nationalist (Kuomintang, KMT) control after World War II With the communist victory in the Chinese civil war in 1949, the Nationalist-controlled Republic of China government and 2 million Nationalists fled to Taiwan and continued to claim to be the legitimate government for mainland China and Taiwan, based on a 1947