east asia geography Archives - TravelsFinders.Com ® http://travelsfinders.com/tag/east-asia-geography Thu, 19 Jan 2017 20:00:40 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.4.4 The East Asian islands of Taiwan http://travelsfinders.com/the-east-asian-islands-of-taiwan.html http://travelsfinders.com/the-east-asian-islands-of-taiwan.html#respond Fri, 20 Jan 2017 00:00:00 +0000 http://travelsfinders.com/?p=231278 Area: 36,179sq.km/13,965sq. miles. Altitude: 0-3952m/0-13,003ft Capital: Taipei In the following brief description the spelling of Chinese proper names follows the Wade Giles System in preference to Pinyin transliteration. The East Asian island of Taiwan (meaning “terraced strand”; formerly known as Formosa) lies between 21°45’E and 25°38’N and 120°1′ and 122°6’E, on either side of the Tropic of Cancer. It is separated from the Chinese mainland by the 160km/100 mile wide Taiwan (Formosa) Strait, with the East China Sea to the north, the Pacific Ocean to the east and the South China Sea (Bashi Channel/Luzon Strait) to the south. It is

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