Signal verified · updated 2026-09-03
Taiwan
High-tech island of Taipei 101, night markets and Yushan's peaks, under disputed ROC administration.
- Formation
- continental collision orogeny; steep Central Mountain Range, western coastal plain
- Population
- 23.4M
- Water
- Pacific Ocean
- Access
- easy
Every required movement
The passage
to Taiwan.
Fly to Taipei Taoyuan (TPE) or Kaohsiung (KHH) from across Asia; high-speed rail links Taipei-Kaohsiung; no scheduled international passenger ferry to the main island.
- 01Taiwan Taoyuan International Airport (TPE)
Nearest recorded air access
Schedule or condition may change · verify - 02Water crossing
Domestic ferries to Penghu, Kinmen, Matsu, Green Island and Lanyu; cross-strait mini-links via Kinmen-Matsu.
Schedule or condition may change · verify - 03Entry check
Visa-exemption for many nationalities (90 days typical).
Schedule or condition may change · verify
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What the chart cannot hold
What becomes visible when you follow taipei 101 beyond the familiar map?
Bean-shaped island 394 km long, mountainous spine in the east and dense cities on the western plain. Austronesian indigenous homeland settled by Han Chinese from the 1600s; economic miracle turned it into a semiconductor superpower and full democracy after 1987 democratization.
Austronesian homeland; Dutch (1624-1662) and Spanish (1626-1642) forts; Tungning kingdom (1661-1683); Qing rule (1683-1895); Japanese colony (1895-1945); ROC rule from 1945, retreat of the ROC government 1949; martial law to 1987, democracy since.
Field ledger
The useful
details.
- Coordinates
- 23.70° N · 121.00° E
- Sovereignty
- Taiwan · disputed
- Nearest mainland
- Fujian, China ~130 km west across the Taiwan Strait
- Best recorded window
- October-November (mild, dry); February-April for spring.
- Permits / entry
- Visa-exemption for many nationalities (90 days typical).
- Languages
- Mandarin, Hokkien (Taiwanese), Hakka, Indigenous Austronesian languages
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