the General data on Taiwan

Taiwan, the state education on in the southeast China , consists of island Taiwan, archipelago Penhuledao (Peskadorsky islands), islands Tszimen, islands Matszu (all of them are in Taiwan strait), archipelagoes Sishatsjundao (Paratselsky islands), Dunshatsjundao (islands Pratas), Nanshatsjundao (islands Spratli) and CHzhunshatsjundao (all of them are in South China sea), a total area 35, 961  sq. km.

Íàñåëåíèå  - 21,36 million persons (1995), from them Chineses (han) - 98 %, offsprings of indigenous population (goashan) 350860 persons (1994). The Official language - Chinese from which numerous dialects in the capacity of a national language northern (Peking) dialect is selected.

The Most widespread and by officially recognised religion is the Buddhism (about 4,9 million followers), also are passed round daosizm (3,64 million), new religious flows (over 1 million), protestantizm (over 374 thousand), a Catholicism (296 thousand), Islam (52 thousand). Konfuntsianstvo it is used in the core in the capacity of morally-ethical teaching though there are communities at temples Konfutsija.

The Administrative centre - the city of Taipei with the population of 2,69 million inhabitants (1993), other large cities - Kaohsiung (1,4 million; 1993), Taichung (798 thousand; 1993), Tainan (690 thousand; 1993).

In the administrative attitude the terrain is divided into a province Taiwan, 2 cities of the central submission (Taipei and Kaohsiung) and 2 districts before a part of a continental Chinese province Fujian. The province Taiwan is divided into 16 districts and 5 cities of provincial submission.