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Economy
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Official Contact Information
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| Area : 35,980 km2
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Agriculture : bamboo shoots, bananas,
betel nuts, cantaloupes, cut flowers, maize, mangoes, peanuts, pears,
pineapples, rice, shiitake mushrooms, sugar cane, tea, watermelons
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Government office address : 2 Tianjin
Street, Taipei, Taiwan ROC
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| Capital and Largest City : Taipei*
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Animal products : beef, chicken,
duck, giant river prawn, grouper, hard clam, honey, milkfish, mutton, oyster,
pork, small abalone, tiger prawn, tilapia, turkey
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Telephone : (886)(2)3356-8888
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| English meaning of name : not
available
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Foreign direct investment (2002) :
US$3.3 billion (approved)
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Website (Traditional Chinese) :
http://info.gio.gov.tw/
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| Major Nationalities (2000) : Southern
Fujianese 70%, Hakka 15%, mainlanders 13%, indigenous Taiwanese 2%
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GDP (2002) : US$281.9 billion; 2,333
billion yuan equivalent**
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Website (English) : www.gio.gov.tw/
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| Organization : 2 provinces; 18
counties; 5 provincially administered cities; 2 province-level municipalities
(Taipei and Kaohsiung)
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GDP per capita : US$12,391; 102,557
yuan equivalent**
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Transportation
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| Population (2004) : 22,749,838
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Industry : cement, chemicals,
electronics, food processing, machinery, petroleum refining, steel, textiles
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Airports : Taipei Chiang Kai-Shek
International Airport (TPE); Sungshan Domestic Airport (TSA); Kaohsiung
Hsiaokang International Airport (KHH); Quemoy Shangyi Airport
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| Population density : 705/km2
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List of desired foreign investment projects
: not available
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Highways/railroads : 37,342 km of
roads (2003) including 20,947 km of highways and 872 km of freeways; 1,097 km
of railways, including a high-speed line between Taipei and Kaohsiung,
scheduled to open in 2005; Taipei has a 5-line metro (the Taipei Rapid Transit
System); the 2-line Kaohsiung Metro (KMRT) is scheduled to open in 2006
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| Weather : hot, wet summers; cold, dry
(north) to warm, dry (south) winters
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Mineral resources : coal, natural
gas, limestone, marble, asbestos
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Major ports : Keelung, Suao,
Taichung, Hualien, Anping, and Kaohsiung. Kaohsiung is the biggest and best
seaport on Taiwan, with 118 berths including 5 container terminals
accommodating all ships under 100,000 dwt
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| *: Officially, the Republic of China (ROC)
maintains its claim to be the legitimate government of the Chinese mainland,
with a capital at Nanjing. Thus, formally, Taipei is only the capital of Taiwan
province of the ROC, and administered as a separate municipality. De facto,
Taipei functions as the capital of the ROC on Taiwan.
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| **: The ROC on Taiwan uses the New Taiwan
Dollar (NT$), not the mainland yuan.
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