Political divisions of the Republic of China
The Republic of China currently administers two historical provinces of China (one completely and one for a small part) and centrally administers two municipalities:
- Taiwan Province; consists of the Taiwanese main island, except the two municipalities, plus Penghu county (Pescadores Islands)
- Sixteen counties
- Five provincial cities
- Fujian Province; consists of several islands offshore of the Chinese mainland:
- Kaohsiung
- Taipei
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.
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Compare to Political divisions of China#Level
Structural hierarchy
The number at the end are the amount of entities as of 2002:
The lowest level, the neighbourhood, is not named, but only enumerated (start from one in each village). They number in 146,267 (126,680 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). Romanization
The 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".
Romanization
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| Kaohsiung City | 高雄市 | Kao-hsiung | GāoxÃÂÃÂong |
| Taipei City | 台北市 | T'ai-pei | TÃÂáibĕi |
Romanization
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| Chiayi County | 嘉義縣 | Chia-i | JīayÃÂì |
| Changhua County | 彰化縣 | Chang-hua | ZhānghÃÂùa |
| Hsinchu County | 新竹縣 | Hsin-chu | XīnzhÃÂú |
| Hualien County | 花蓮縣 | Hua-lien | HūalÃÂÃÂan |
| Ilan County | 宜蘭縣 | I-lan | YÃÂÃÂlÃÂán |
| Kaohsiung County | 高雄縣 | Kao-hsiung | GāoxÃÂÃÂong |
| Miaoli County | 苗栗縣 | Miao-li | MÃÂÃÂaolÃÂì |
| Nantou County | 南投縣 | Nan-t'ou | NÃÂántÃÂóu |
| Penghu County (Pescadores) | 澎湖縣 | P'eng-hu | PÃÂénghÃÂú |
| Pingtung County | 屏東縣 | P'ing-tung | PÃÂÃÂngdōng |
| Taichung County | 台中縣 | T'ai-chung | TÃÂáizhōng |
| Tainan County | 台南縣 | T'ai-nan | TÃÂáinÃÂán |
| Taipei County | 台北縣 | T'ai-pei | TÃÂáibĕi |
| Taitung County | 台東縣 | T'ai-tung | TÃÂáidōng |
| Taoyuan County | 桃園縣 | T'ao-yuan | TÃÂáoyÃÂúan |
| Yunlin County | 雲林縣 | Yun-lin | YÃÂúnlÃÂÃÂn |
In Fujian Province (Wade-Giles: Fuchien):
Romanization
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| Lienchiang County (Matsu) | 連江縣 | Lien-chiang | LÃÂÃÂanjīang |
| Kinmen County (Quemoy) | 金門縣 | Chin-men | JīnmÃÂén |
Provincial municipalities
In Taiwan Province:
Romanization
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| Chiayi City | 嘉義市 | Chia-i | JīayÃÂì |
| Hsinchu City | 新竹市 | Hsin-chu | XīnzhÃÂú |
| Keelung City | 基隆市 | Chi-lung | JīlÃÂóng |
| Taichung City | 台中市 | T'ai-chung | TÃÂáizhōng |
| Tainan City | 台南市 | T'ai-nan | TÃÂáinÃÂán |
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