Provinces of Taiwan
The Republic of China currently administers two historical provinces of China (one completely and one for a small part) and centrally administers two municipalities:
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
- Centrally-administered Municipality (直轄市 literal meaning: "Directly administrated city (by the central government)", in pinyin: zhíxíashì, in Wade-Giles: chi-hsia-shih): originally Yuanxiashi (院轄市 "Yuan-administered city")
- Province
- Provincially administered municipality (省轄市 in pinyin: shĕngxíashì, in Wade-Giles: sheng-hsia-shih)
- County (縣 in pinyin: xìan, in Wade-Giles: hsien)
- County-administered city (縣轄市)
- Township (鄉 and 鎮)
Compare to Political divisions of China#Level
Romanized names
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".
Centrally-administered Municipalities
Counties
In Taiwan Province:
In Fujian Province (Wade-Giles: Fuchien):
| Romanization
| Chinese
| Wade-Giles
| Pinyin
| Pinyin
with tones
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| Lienchiang County (Matsu) |
連江縣 |
Lien-chiang |
Lianjiang |
lian2 jiang1 |
| Kinmen County (Quemoy) |
金門縣 |
Kin-men |
Jinmen |
jin1 men2 |
Provincially-administered municipalities
In Taiwan Province:
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