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Formosa

, officially the Republic of China, is an island country in comprising primarily the island of Taiwan, formerly known as Formosa, which has an area of 35,808 square kilometres and makes up 99% of the land under ROC control.
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  • Type: Island
  • Description: island in East Asia; main land of the Republic of China (Taiwan)
  • Also known as: “Formosa I.”, “Formosa Is.”, “Formosa Island”, “I. Formosa”, “I. Taiwan”, “Ilaod”, “Island of Formosa”, “Island of Taiwan”, “Nanasian”, “Ostrov Tayvan’”, “T’ai-wan”, “Taiouan”, “Taiwan”, “Taiwan I.”, “Taiwan Is.”, and “Taiwan Island”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Formosan Aboriginal Cultural Village.

Theme park
Photo: sfmine79, CC BY 2.0.
The Formosan Aboriginal Culture Village is an amusement park in , , which has been in operation since 1986. It is distinctive for its Formosan aboriginal culture theme. is situated 3½ km northwest of Formosa.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Ita thao and Yuchi.

Village
Photo: あばさー, Public domain.
is a village, which is situated 3½ km west of Formosa.

Town
Photo: Chongkian, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Township is a rural township in the center of , Taiwan. It is the location of the , a tourist attraction. is situated 7 km northwest of Formosa.

Formosa

Latitude
23.83847° or 23° 50′ 19″ north
Longitude
120.96614° or 120° 57′ 58″ east
Population
23,900,000
Elevation
1,823 metres (5,981 feet)
Open location code
7QM2RXQ8+9F
Geo­Names ID
1668285
Wiki­data ID
Q22502
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Satellite Map

Discover Formosa from above in high-definition satellite imagery.
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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Zhuang—“Formosa” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “Taiwan”
  • Amis: “Taywan”
  • Arabic: “تايوان”
  • Arabic: “جزيرة تايوان”
  • Arabic: “فورموزا”
  • Armenian: “Թայվան”
  • Asturian: “Taiwán”
  • Atayal: “Taywan”
  • Azerbaijani: “Tayvan”
  • Bashkir: “Тайвань (утрау)”
  • Bashkir: “Тайвань”
  • Basque: “Taiwan”
  • Belarusian: “востраў Тайвань”
  • Belarusian: “Тайвань (востраў)”
  • Belarusian: “Тайвань”
  • Belarusian: “Фармоза”
  • Bengali: “তাইওয়ান”
  • Breton: “Enez Taiwan”
  • Bulgarian: “Тайван”
  • Burmese: “တရုတ်သမ္မတနိုင်ငံ၏ ပထဝီဝင်”
  • Burmese: “ထိုင်ဝမ်၏ ပထဝီဝင်”
  • Burmese: “ထိုင်ဝမ်ကျွန်း၏ ပထဝီဝင်”
  • Catalan: “Taiwan”
  • Cebuano: “Taiwan”
  • Chinese: “Tâi-oân”
  • Chinese: “台湾”
  • Chinese: “台灣”
  • Chinese: “台灣島”
  • Chinese: “台灣本島”
  • Chinese: “福尔摩沙”
  • Chinese: “福爾摩沙”
  • Chinese: “美麗島”
  • Chinese: “臺灣”
  • Chinese: “臺灣島”
  • Chinese: “臺灣本島”
  • Croatian: “Tajvan (otok)”
  • Croatian: “Tajvan”
  • Czech: “Formosa”
  • Czech: “Tchaj-wan”
  • Danish: “Taiwan”
  • Dhivehi: “ޓައިވާން”
  • Dutch: “Formosa”
  • Dutch: “Taiwan”
  • Esperanto: “Insulo Tajvano”
  • Esperanto: “Tajvano”
  • Estonian: “Taiwani saar”
  • Fiji Hindi: “Taiwan”
  • Fijian: “Taiwan”
  • Fijian: “Taiwana”
  • Finnish: “Formosa”
  • Finnish: “Taiwaninsaari”
  • French: “Formosa”
  • French: “Formose”
  • French: “I. Formosa”
  • French: “I. Formose”
  • French: “I. Taïwan”
  • French: “île de Formosa”
  • French: “île de Formose”
  • French: “île de Taïwan”
  • French: “l’île Formose”
  • French: “Taï-ouan”
  • French: “Taiouan”
  • French: “Taïouan”
  • French: “Taïwan”
  • Galician: “Formosa”
  • Galician: “Illa de Taiwán”
  • Gan Chinese: “福爾摩沙”
  • Gan Chinese: “臺灣”
  • German: “Formosa”
  • German: “Ilha Formosa / Schöne Insel (pt)”
  • German: “Taiwan”
  • Greek: “Ταϊβάν”
  • Guarani: “Ypa’ũ Taiuã”
  • Gujarati: “તાઇવાન”
  • Hakka Chinese: “Thòi-vân”
  • Hakka Chinese: “Toiˇ Vanˇ”
  • Hausa: “Jamhuriyar Sin”
  • Hausa: “Jamhuriyar Taiwan”
  • Hebrew: “טאיוואן”
  • Hindi: “ताइवान”
  • Hungarian: “Tajvan”
  • Icelandic: “Taívan”
  • Inari Sami: “Taiwan”
  • Indonesian: “Pulau Taiwan”
  • Indonesian: “Taiwan”
  • Interlingua: “Taiwan”
  • Interlingue: “Taiwan”
  • Italian: “Formosa”
  • Italian: “Isola di Formosa”
  • Italian: “Isola di Taiwan”
  • Italian: “Taiwan”
  • Jamaican Creole English: “Formosa”
  • Jamaican Creole English: “Taiwan”
  • Japanese: “フォルモサ”
  • Japanese: “台湾”
  • Japanese: “台湾島”
  • Japanese: “台湾本島”
  • Kalmyk: “Тайван арл”
  • Kara-Kalpak: “Formoza”
  • Kara-Kalpak: “Taiwan”
  • Kara-Kalpak: “Tayvan”
  • Kara-Kalpak: “twn”
  • Kazakh: “Taiuan araly”
  • Kazakh: “Taiuan”
  • Kazakh: “Taiwan araly”
  • Kazakh: “Taiwan”
  • Kazakh: “Тайуан”
  • Khmer: “តៃវ៉ាន់”
  • Kirghiz: “Тайвань аралы”
  • Kirghiz: “Тайвань”
  • Korean: “대만 섬”
  • Korean: “대만”
  • Korean: “대만도”
  • Korean: “대만섬”
  • Korean: “타이완 섬”
  • Korean: “타이완”
  • Korean: “타이완섬”
  • Korean: “포르모사”
  • Latin: “Formosa”
  • Latvian: “Taivāna”
  • Literary Chinese: “福爾摩莎”
  • Literary Chinese: “臺灣”
  • Literary Chinese: “臺灣島”
  • Lithuanian: “Taivanas (sala)”
  • Lithuanian: “Taivanas”
  • Lower Sorbian: “Taiwan”
  • Luxembourgish: “Taiwan”
  • Macedonian: “Тајван”
  • Magahi: “ताइवान”
  • Malay: “Pulau Taiwan”
  • Manchu: “ᡨᠠᡳ ᠸᠠᠨ”
  • Marathi: “तायवान”
  • Marathi: “तैवान”
  • Min Dong Chinese: “Dài-uăng”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Bí-lē-tó”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Formosa”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Tâi-oân”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Tâi-uân”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “台灣”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “福爾摩沙”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “臺灣”
  • Mingrelian: “ტაივანი”
  • Mongolian: “Тайвань арал”
  • Northern Sami: “Taiwan”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Taiwan”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Øya Taiwan”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Taiwan”
  • Norwegian: “Taiwan”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Taiwan”
  • Old English (ca. 450-1100): “Formosa”
  • Old English (ca. 450-1100): “Taiwan”
  • Paiwan: “Nanasian”
  • Persian: “تایوان”
  • Picard: “Taïwan”
  • Polish: “Tajwan”
  • Portuguese: “Formosa”
  • Portuguese: “Ilha de Taiwan”
  • Portuguese: “Ilha Formosa”
  • Portuguese: “Ilha Taiwan”
  • Portuguese: “Taiwan”
  • Pu-Xian Chinese: “Dái-uáng”
  • Quechua: “Taywan wat’a”
  • Quechua: “Taywan”
  • Romanian: “Taiwan”
  • Russian: “ост: Формоза”
  • Russian: “Тайвань”
  • Russian: “Формоза”
  • Saisiyat: “Tawyan”
  • Sakizaya: “Taywan”
  • Samoan: “Tailani”
  • Scots: “Taiwan”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “Taidh-Bhàn”
  • Serbian: “Тајван”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Tajvan”
  • Sindhi: “تائيوان ٻيٽ”
  • Skolt Sami: “Taiwaan”
  • Slovak: “Taiwan”
  • Slovenian: “Formoza”
  • Slovenian: “Tajvan”
  • Spanish: “Hermosa”
  • Spanish: “Isla de Taiwan”
  • Spanish: “Isla de Taiwán”
  • Spanish: “Taiwan”
  • Spanish: “Taiwán”
  • Sundanese: “Taiwan”
  • Swahili: “Taiwan”
  • Swedish: “Taiwan”
  • Tagalog: “Isla ng Taiwan”
  • Tagalog: “Pulo ng Taiwan”
  • Tagalog: “Taiwan”
  • Tajik: “Тайван”
  • Tamil: “தாய்வான்”
  • Taroko: “Taiwan”
  • Taroko: “Taywan”
  • Taroko: “Taywang”
  • Taroko: “Teywan”
  • Tatar: “Тайвань”
  • Thai: “ภูมิศาสตร์ไต้หวัน”
  • Tok Pisin: “Taiwan”
  • Turkish: “Formoza”
  • Turkish: “Tayvan Adası”
  • Turkish: “Tayvan”
  • Ukrainian: “Тайвань”
  • Ukrainian: “Формоза”
  • Upper Sorbian: “Formosa”
  • Upper Sorbian: “Taiwan”
  • Urdu: “تائیوان”
  • Uzbek: “Tayvan”
  • Uzbek: “Xitoy Respublikasi”
  • Venetian: “Taiwan”
  • Veps: “Taivan‘”
  • Veps: “Taivan’”
  • Vietnamese: “Đài Loan”
  • Vietnamese: “Đảo Đài Loan”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Taiwan”
  • Welsh: “Taiwan”
  • Welsh: “ynys Taiwan”
  • Wu Chinese: “台湾”
  • Wu Chinese: “臺灣”
  • Yakut: “Тайбаан”
  • Yiddish: “טייוואן אינזל”
  • Yue Chinese: “福爾摩沙”
  • Yue Chinese: “臺灣”
  • Zhuang: “Daizvanh”
  • “Formosa”
  • “Taiwan”
  • “臺灣”

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