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( | The main island of Taiwan, also known as Formosa [from Portuguese (Ilha) Formosa, meaning "beautiful (island)"], is located in East Asia off the coast of mainland China, southwest of the main islands of Japan but directly west of the end of Japan's Ryukyu Islands, and north-northwest of the Philippines. It is bound to the east by the Pacific Ocean, to the south by the South China Sea and the Luzon Strait, to the west by the Taiwan Strait and to the north by the East China Sea. The island is 394 kilometers (245 miles) long and 144 kilometers (89 miles) wide and consists of steep mountains covered by tropical and subtropical vegetation. | ||
== Getting started with (Your Locality) research == | == Getting started with (Your Locality) research == | ||
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== Research Tools == | == Research Tools == | ||
*[http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~twnwgw/ Taiwan GenWeb] | |||
*http://www.ibiblio.org/chinesehistory/contents/06dat/bio.5roc.html | |||
* | *http://doc.geneanet.org/?lang=en | ||
* | *http://coombs.anu.edu.au/WWWVLPages/WhatsNewWWW/old-asian-news/half-life/asia-www-monitor-98-02a.html | ||
*http://www.ntl.edu.tw/en/information.asp | |||
*http://www.vpl.ca/ccg/Online_Resources.html | |||
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*'''Browse:''' [[:Category:Taiwan|Pages for Taiwan]] | |||
*'''Research Guide:''' [[Contracts and other old documents as sources for family history and genealogy in Taiwan|Taiwan Family History Sources]] | |||
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