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Taiwan: true size, area and map scale

The selected sources publish no verified area or population for Taiwan, so it is not ranked. The outline shows shape and position.

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Taiwan
CapitalTaipei
Total surface areaUnavailable
PopulationUnavailable
Land areaUnavailable
ISO CodeTWNISO 3166-1 alpha-3 / UN M49
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Taiwan covers about 36,193 km² (an editorial estimate without a verified source) and has a population of about 23,896,000 people (an editorial estimate without a verified source).

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The selected reference sources do not publish a comparable observation for at least one metric for this territory. RealSize.World displays missing data rather than assigning an unknown source to a legacy value.

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