Pescadores
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 澎湖縣 Abbreviation(s): Penghu (澎湖) | |
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| Capital | Magong City |
| Region | Taiwan Strait |
| County Magistrate | Chien-fa Wang (王乾發) |
| Cities | 1 |
| Townships | 5 |
| Area | |
| - Total | 126.8641 km² (22 of 25) |
| - % water | 0 % |
| Population | |
| - Total | 92,489 (2005) (23 of 25) |
| - Density | 734/km² |
| Symbols | |
| - County flower | Firewheel (Gaillardia pulchella) |
| - County tree | Chinese Banyan (Ficus microcarpa) |
| - County bird | Small Skylark (Alauda gulgula) |
| Official websites | www.penghu.gov.tw |
The Pescadores (from Portuguese, "fishermen", pron. IPA: [pɨʃ.kɐ.'ðo.ɾɨʃ]) are an archipelago off the western coast of Taiwan in the Taiwan Strait consisting of 64 small islands covering an area of 80 kilometers. They are administered as Penghu County (澎湖縣) under Taiwan Province of the Republic of China.
The county flower is a chrysanthemum called "The Immortals" (天人菊).
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[edit] History
"P'eng-hu" was first recorded in unofficial historical records and regional logs in 1171 during the Southern Song Dynasty. From the middle of the 17th century to 1895, Formosa (Taiwan) and the Pescadores (Penghu) were ruled by pirates, the colonial Dutch Empire, the Koxinga kingdom, and the Qing Dynasty (Manchu), successively.
The Qing Dynasty then ceded these islands to Japan in 1895 in the Sino-Japanese Treaty of Shimonoseki.
In the Cairo Declaration of 1943, the United States, United Kingdom, and China stated it to be their purpose that "all the territories that Japan has stolen from the Chinese, such as Formosa and the Pescadores, shall be restored to the Republic of China."
On July 26, 1945, the three governments issued the Potsdam Declaration, declaring that "the terms of the Cairo Declaration shall be carried out." In the Treaty of San Francisco, Japan renounced sovereignty over Formosa and the Pescadores but left their final disposition unsettled. The archipelago has been administered by the Republic of China as part of its Taiwan Province since 1945.
[edit] Sub-county divisions
- Magong City (馬公市 pinyin: Mǎgōng): 34 municipal villages (里 li)
- Husi Township (湖西鄉 Húxī): 22 town villages (村 ts'un)
- Baisha Township (白沙鄉 Báishā): 15
- Siyu Township (西嶼鄉 Xīyǔ): 11
- Cimei Township (七美鄉 Qīměi): 6
- Wang-an Township (望安鄉 Wàng'ān): 9
Altogether, there are 97 villages.
[edit] See also
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- Political divisions of the Republic of China
- Township (Taiwan)
- List of cities in the Republic of China (Taiwan)
- Republic of China
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- Penghu County Government Official Website
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- Complete list of villages' names (Traditional Chinese)
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