Political divisions of the Republic of China
zh-tw:中華民國行政區劃\nzh-cn:中华民国行政区划
The
Republic of China currently administers two historical
provinces of China (one completely and one for a small part) and centrally administers two
municipalities:\n*
Taiwan Province; consists of the Taiwanese main island, except the two municipalities, plus Penghu county (
Pescadores Islands)\n** Sixteen
counties\n** Five
provincial cities\n*
Fujian Province; consists of several islands offshore of the
Chinese mainland:\n** Kinmen County (
Quemoy)\n** part of
Lianjiang County, namely
Matsu\n*
Kaohsiung\n*
Taipei
Additionally, the ROC has not officially renounced sovereignty over
Mainland China (including
Tibet) and
outer Mongolia, although in 1991 it stated that it does not challenge the PRC's right to rule those areas, and it has made some statements that can be interpreted as renouncing sovereignty over the Mainland, and most observers feel that the ruling
Democratic Progressive Party would very much prefer to officially renounce such sovereignty.
This extremely ambigious situation results in large part because a formal renouncement of sovereignty over the Mainland could be taken as a declaration of
Taiwan independence which would be unpopular among some circles on Taiwan and could likely bring about military action by the PRC. See
Political status of Taiwan for more information.
Maps of
China and the world published in Taiwan will sometimes show provincial boundaries as they were in
1949 which do not match the current administrative structure as decided by the
Communist Party of China post-1949.
Structural hierarchy
\nThe number at the end are the amount of entities as of 2004:\n* Municipality (2)\n** District (區) (23)\n*** Village (里) (912)\n**** Neighborhood (鄰) (17988)\n* Province (2)\n** Provincial municipality (5)\n*** District (26)\n**** Village (831)\n***** Neighborhood (17,091)\n** County (18)\n*** County-administered city (32)\n**** Village (里)\n***** Neighborhood\n*** Township: 226 rural townships (鄉 siang) and 61 urban townships (鎮 jhen)\n**** Village (村)\n***** Neighborhood
The lowest level, the neighbourhood, is not named, but only enumerated (start from one in each village). They number in 146,112 (127,242 in Taiwan Province), under 7,809 villages (6,838 in Taiwan). There are altogether 369 secondary entities (rural and urban townships, districts (of both types of municipalities), and county-administered cities).
Compare to Political divisions of China#Level
Romanization
\nThe romanization used for ROC placenames is Wade-Giles, except "Keelung" and "Quemoy", which are the more popular versions of romanization. "Chiayi" is a slightly modified form of the Wade-Giles version, "Chia-i". After Tongyong Pinyin was adopted by the current administration in 2002, most municipalities, provinces, and county-level entities retained Wade-Giles, with the aforementioned exceptions. In addition, "Yilan" is written in place of "Ilan".
Municipalities
\n
Counties
\nIn Taiwan Province:\n
In
Fujian Province (Wade-Giles: Fuchien): \n
Provincial municipalities
\nIn Taiwan Province:\n
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See also
\n*Capitals of subnational entities of Taiwanese counties and cities\n*
List of Taiwanese counties and cities by area\n*
List of Taiwanese counties and cities by population\n*
List of Taiwanese counties and cities by population density
External Link
\n* 內政部地政司 (Department of Land Administration, Ministry of the Interior): Romanizations for county-level and township-level entities\n*
County and city flags\n*
map of ROC (including Quemoy and Matsu)
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