Taiwan is a Multi Island

Taiwan, known for short as Tai, is situated at Chinasoccupying more than 97 percent of the Taiwans
southeast sea waters.total area. It is Chinas biggest island and ranks the
Taiwan Island faces the Pacific to the east,28th of the world islands.
approximately 2,800 kilometres from Guam. ItTaiwan belongs to the tropical and subtropical zones,
borders Bashi Channel to the south and is 300with the Tropic of Cancer running through its middle.
kilometres away from the Philippine Islands, to itsHowever, being surrounded by seas in all sides,
west is Taiwan Strait, facing Fujian Province onTaiwan is embraced by the Pacific Ocean. The
Chinas mainland. The width of the strait is less thanmajority of Taiwan region falls in the temperate and
200 kilometres and the narrowest part is only 130humid maritime climate zone. As is influenced by the
kilometers, it traverses the sea trough of Okinawa inmaritime monsoon, Taiwan has neither severe winter
the northeast and neighbours Ryukyu gunto.nor has it intense heat of summer. The forests
It holds a strategic point of communication on theremain verdant luxuriantly green and the flowers
north south sea of China and the communications hubblossom in all seasons. Taiwan is also characterized by
of West Pacific shipping line and constitutes theabundant rainfall and violent typhoon.
natural barrier of Chinas south east sea waters andTaiwan is rich in more than 110 kinds of minerals with
the communication pivot of contacts amongcoal, petroleum, natural gas, gold, silver copper and
countries in the Pacific region.sulphur as its main resources. It is also extremely rich
Taiwan is a multi island. The Taiwan Island proper andin terrestrial heat, a great variety of plants and the
its scattering islands, such as Hongtou Isle, Huoshaoforest vegetation occupies 52 percent of the land
Isle, Guishan Isle altogether 14 isles attach to it. Thearea of the whole island, capturing the first place in all
Penghus made up of 64 islands. In addition, TheChina. It is rich in aquatic resources too and the
Diaoyu Islands which are composed of 8 islands andoutput of Taiwans coral occupies about 80 percent
some other isles. All in all Taiwan has more than 100of the world total production, winning the fame of
islands big and small. Taiwans land area is 36 thousandThe Kingdom of Coral.
square kilometres, among which the area of TaiwanTaiwan is also one of the main regions which exports
proper is over 35 thousand square kilometres,butterflies in the world.