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Taiwan, officially the Republic of China (ROC), is a state in East Asia. Its neighbors include the People's Republic of China (PRC) to the west, Japan to the northeast, and the Philippines to the south.
The island of Taiwan lies in a complex tectonic area between the Yangtze Plate to the west and north, the Okinawa Plate on the north-east, and the Philippine Mobile Belt on the east and south.
CLIMATE
Taiwan lies on the Tropic of Cancer, and its general climate is marine tropical.The northern and central regions are subtropical, whereas the south is tropical and the mountainous regions are temperate.
The average rainfall is 2,600 millimetres (100 inches) per year for the island proper
RELIGION
Taiwan protects people's freedom of religion and the practices of belief. There are 81.3% religious followers in Taiwan as of 2005 and 14–18% are non-religious.
| Religion in Taiwan (2005) | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Buddhism | 35.1% | Taoism | 33.0% |
| Non-religious | 18.7% | Christianity | 3.9% |
| Yiguandao | 3.5% | Tiandism | 2.2% |
| Miledadao | 1.1% | Other | 1.0% |
ECONOMY
The economy of the Republic of China, commonly called Taiwan, is the 7th largest economy in Asia
In 2001, agriculture constituted only 2% of GDP, down from 35% in 1952. Traditional labour-intensive industries are steadily being moved offshore and with more capital and technology-intensive industries replacing them. High-technology industrial parks have sprung up in every region in Taiwan.
In 2017, Taiwan GDP was 571.5 billion and nominal rank in 22nd in the world.
DEMOCRACY
With the advent of democratization, the issue of the political status of Taiwan gradually resurfaced as a controversial issue where, previously, the discussion of anything other than unification under the ROC was taboo.