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First inhabited by Austronesian people, Taiwan became home to Han immigrants beginning in the late Ming Dynasty (17th century). In 1895, military defeat forced China’s Qing Dynasty to cede Taiwan to Japan, which then governed Taiwan for 50 years. 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 Constitution drawn up for all of China. Until 1987, however, the Nationalist government ruled Taiwan under a civil war martial law declaration dating to 1948. Beginning in the 1970s, Nationalist authorities gradually began to incorporate the native population into the governing structure beyond the local level. The democratization process expanded rapidly in the 1980s, leading to the then illegal founding of Taiwan’s first opposition party (the Democratic Progressive Party or DPP) in 1986 and the lifting of martial law the following year. Taiwan held legislative elections in 1992, the first in over forty years, and its first direct presidential election in 1996. In the 2000 presidential elections, Taiwan underwent its first peaceful transfer of power with the KMT loss to the DPP and afterwards experienced two additional democratic transfers of power in 2008 and 2016. Throughout this period, the island prospered, became one of East Asia’s economic Tigers, and after 2000 became a major investor in mainland China as cross-Strait ties matured. The dominant political issues continue to be economic reform and growth as well as management of sensitive relations between Taiwan and China.
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World Factbook
2020
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Areas Of Taiwan Where Avg. Church Size is Less Than 100 People
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Taiwan
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Areas Of Taiwan Where Total Church Size is Less Than 100 People
People Groups
Americans, U.S.
Ami
Anglo-Canadian
British
Bunun
Deaf
Filipino, Tagalog
Han Chinese, Hakka
Han Chinese, Mandarin
Han Chinese, Min Nan
Hui
Indonesian
Japanese
Jew, Chinese
Kanakanabu
Kavalan, Kuwarawan
Korean
Malay
Mongol, Khalka
Paiwanese, Tamari
Pinuyumayan
Rukai, Tsalisen
Saaroa
Saiset
Sakizaya
Seediq
Siraya
Taroko, Truku
Tayal, Atayal
Thai
Thao, Sau
Tibetan, Central
Tsou, Northern Tsuu
Vietnamese
Yami, Botel Tabago
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Geographic Distribution of Protestant Churches in Taipei City
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Geographic Distribution of Protestant Churches in Taiwan
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Percentage Population Changes For Geographic Subdivisions-Taiwan
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Taiwan Population By Area
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Taiwan Protestant Church Membership- % Of Local Population
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Taiwan Provinces and Major Cities
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Taiwan Total Protestant Church Membership
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Taiwan Townships-Western Plains and Mountains/East Coast/Islands
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Taiwan map (World Factbook)
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Taiwan map (World Factbook, modified)
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Taiwan (Prayercast)
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China, Taiwan (Operation World)
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Taiwan (World Factbook website)
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