Welcome to Taiwan
An Island Group in the Western Pacific
Taiwan is an island of over 34,000 sq km (over 13,300 sq mi) situated in the Pacific Ocean off the southeastern coast of the Chinese mainland (People's Republic of China). Taiwan was a part of Qing China, but was ceded to Japan in the 1895 Treaty of Shimonoseki. It was included in the South Pacific Theater of WWII, and was not part of the China Theater.