Various names for the island of Taiwan remain in use, each derived from explorers or rulers during a particular historical period. The name Formosa (福爾摩沙) dates from 1542, when Portuguesesailors sighted an uncharted

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Early settlement (to 1683)
Taiwan was joined to the Asian mainland in the Late Pleistocene, until sea levels rose about 10,000 years

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The area controlled by the ROC consists of several islandswith a combined area of 36,193 square kilometres (13,974 sq mi). The main island, known historically as Formosa, makes up 99 per

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The political and legal statuses of Taiwan are contentious issues. The People's Republic of China (PRC) claims that Taiwan is Chinese territory and that itself has replaced the ROC

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The government of the Republic of China was founded on the 1947 Constitution of the ROC and its Three Principles of the People, which states that the ROC "shall be a democratic republic of

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The Republic of China Army takes its roots in the National Revolutionary Army, which was established by Sun Yat-sen in 1925 in Guangdong with a goal of reunifying China under the Kuomintang. When the People's Liberation Armywon the Chinese Civil War, much of the National

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The quick industrialization and rapid growth of Taiwan during the latter half of the 20th century has been called the "Taiwan Miracle". Taiwan is one of the "Four Asian Tigers" alongside Hong Kong, South Korea and Singapore.
Japanese rule prior to and

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