TAIWAN

HISTORICAL GEOGRAPHY

• Named island Taiwan Formosa meaning bautiful island.
• The island and 86 smaller island make up republic of china.
• The island is 100miles off asian mainland.
• It is slightly larger that Massachusetts and Connecticut combined
• Taiwan was apart of china and they broke off

The nationalists Chinese party controlled Taiwan under military law for 38 years.

The ancestors migrated there about 100 years ago.

REGIONS

• Eastern- Yilan, Hualien, and Taitung
• Western- Taipei and Taitung
• Northern- Taipei, New Taipei, Kneelung, Taoyuan, and Jsinchu
• Southern- Yunlin, Chiayi, Tainan, Kaohsiung, Pingtung

CLIMATE

• Humid-Subtropical
• Year round rainfall
• Summmer is May to June
• June to October is typhoon season

CLIMATE CONTINUED...

• May to June seasons with most rainfall
• Get 98.4 in. Average a year.
• Earthquakes are frequent
• 15,000-18,000 happen a year
• 800-1,000 are noticeable

MAJOR INDUSTRIES

• Food processing is biggest industry
• Commercial farming
• Most industrialized nation in asia
• Rapid industrial success is leading to enviromental problems
• Major crops- rice, fruit, vegetables

MAJOR RESORCES

• Small deposits of coal
• Natural gasses
• Limestone
• Asbestos
• In some places the like to use hydroelectricity

MAJOR LANDFORMS

• 2/3 of taiwan is rugged mountain
• Yu Shan is the highest point at 12,966ft
• Largert body of water is Sun Moon Lake
• Chung-yang Shan mountain range
• Rivers Chushui and Kaoping

POLITICAL GEOGRAPHY

• Taiwan has the same government as USA
• Instead of 3 tree branches they have 4
• National assembly
• The legislating Yuan
• The judicial Yuan

The presidents exclusive branch, including the exclusive Yuan, examination yuan and control yuan.

AGRICULTURE

• Farmers farm mostly rice
• Sweet potatos
• Bananas
• Peanuts
• Soybeans

AGURCULTURE CONTINUED

• Wheat
• Pineapples
• Crude tea
• Asparagus
• 24% of land is used for farming

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