Taiwan

This page was generated on 20 September 2026 at 12:27 UTC. The bundled facts on it were retrieved on 5 August 2026. Aletheia's source record for emergency numbers records no retrieval date, so it is not covered by that range.

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Country outlines on Aletheia come from Natural Earth's 1:10-million public-domain boundary set, made by volunteer cartographers and supported by NACIS. Where a border is disputed, the line drawn is one cartographic convention among the competing claims — not a settled fact, and not Aletheia taking a side. Disputes we can source are listed rather than hidden inside the outline.

Locator map of Taiwan. Taiwan is filled; surrounding countries are drawn in a dimmer tone and nothing is hidden behind them. 1 contested area is marked with hatching: Taiwan (marked at minimum size, not to scale). 1 part of it is too small to draw at this scale and is not shown. View spans 117.9°E to 122.3°E and 21.6°N to 25.6°N. Boundaries: Natural Earth (public domain), 1:10m.Taiwan — status contested; see the list below.

Taiwan is filled. The one other country reaching this view is drawn in a dimmer tone — dimmed, not hidden. Unpainted ground is where no boundary in this dataset falls: open water, or land none of them claims.

The hatched area is contested, and Aletheia takes no position on it. The hatching marks where the dispute lies — including where it falls inside the outline — and it is the same set the list below names. One of them is smaller than this map can draw and is marked with a fixed-size diamond: the diamond is its position, not its size or shape.

One part of Taiwan in this source is smaller than a pixel at this scale and is not drawn. Nothing larger than that is missing, and it has not been enlarged to make it visible.

Boundaries: Natural Earth (public domain), 1:10m. Disputed areas: Natural Earth (public domain). Equirectangular projection, standard parallel 23.6°N — distances and areas away from that parallel are stretched. View: 117.9°E–122.3°E, 21.6°N–25.6°N.

Disputed areas involving Taiwan

One area whose status is contested. Aletheia takes no position on it. It is described in the source’s own words.

Source: Natural Earth’s disputed-areas layer (public domain). The list is not exhaustive, and inclusion or omission is not a judgment about any claim’s merit. What has happened in these places is not described here — that needs a source Aletheia has not yet been able to read.

  1. News sources

    3 sources from Taiwanin Aletheia’s registry. Coverage here is covered.

    • Liberty Times (自由時報)
    • Taipei Times
    • Newtalk (新頭殼)

    sources not yet assessed

  2. Official alerts

    no source connectedNo official alerting source is connected for this country yet. Its own authorities may well publish warnings — Aletheia simply does not carry them.

  3. National legislature

    Legislative Yuan

    Wikidata P856 · link checked and reachable

  4. Local time

    One time zone.

    The current time needs JavaScript, so it is not shown here rather than shown wrong.

  5. Conditions at the capital

    We couldn't reach the weather service just now, so no conditions are shown. This is not a report that conditions are calm.

    Weather from Open-Meteo (CC BY 4.0)

    Taipei, 2026-09-20Sunrise 5:41 AM · sunset 5:52 PM12h 11m of daylightWaxing gibbous, 65% lit

  6. At a glance

    ISO code
    TWNuncited
    Driving side
    rightuncited
    Mains voltage
    110 Vcited
    Capital
    Taipeiuncited
    Official languages
    22 official languagesAmis, Atayal, Bunun, Kanakanavu, Kavalan, Kinmen dialect, Matsu dialect, Paiwan, Puyuma, Rukai, Saaroa, Saisiyat, Sakizaya, Seediq, Standard Taiwanese Mandarin, Taiwanese Hakka, Taiwanese Hokkien, Taiwanese Sign Language, Truku, Tsou, Wuqiu dialect, Yami
    cited
    Plug types
    Type A (NEMA 1-15), Type B (NEMA 5-15)cited · letters are the IEC classification
    Official websites
    gov.twtaiwan.gov.twFrom the source's "official website" statement, kept here because the site is a government portal. We have not tested whether it loads.uncited
  7. Population and economy

    Population
    Not publishedThe source publishes no figure for this country. That is missing data, not a zero.
    GDP
    Not publishedThe source publishes no figure for this country. That is missing data, not a zero.
    GDP per capita
    Not publishedThe source publishes no figure for this country. That is missing data, not a zero.
    Life expectancy at birth
    Not publishedThe source publishes no figure for this country. That is missing data, not a zero.
    Exports
    Not publishedThe source publishes no figure for this country. That is missing data, not a zero.
    Imports
    Not publishedThe source publishes no figure for this country. That is missing data, not a zero.
  8. World Heritage Sites

    Coverage limitedWe hold no World Heritage entry for this country, but our read of the register is not known to be complete, so this is not a finding of none. 6 inscribed sites are in the register and reach no page here — the source records no country for them, so they could belong to any country. That is why an empty result anywhere cannot be read as an absence.

  9. Emergency numbers

    • 110
    • 112
    • 119

    Shown in numerical order, which is not an order of priority.

    Listed by the source, mostly from ITU-T E.129. We have not dialled these numbers, and where a service is named it is the source's description rather than ours.

  10. Explore this country

  11. Regions

    First-level regions as GeoNames lists them, shown alphabetically · each page computes daylight at the region’s own coordinates

  12. Currency

    TWD

News coverage here is counted from Aletheia’s bundled source registry plus the sources the Host had admitted as of 2026-09-14. A source admitted since that date has not reached this page yet, so this is a floor rather than a total.

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