Political divisions of the Republic of China

The Republic of China currently administers two historical provinces of China (one completely and one for a small part) and centrally administers two municipalities:

• Taiwan Province; consists of the Taiwanese main island, except the two municipalities, plus Penghu county (Pescadores Islands)
  • Sixteen counties and
  • Five provincially administrated cities.
• Fujian Province; consists of several islands offshore of the Chinese mainland:
  • Kinmen County (Quemoy)
  • part of Lianjiang County, namely Matsu
• Kaohsiung
• Taipei

The romanization used for ROC placenames is Wade-Giles, except "Keelung" and "Quemoy", which are the more popular versions of romanization. "Chiayi" is a slightly modified form of the Wade-Giles version, "Chia-i". After Tongyong Pinyin was adopted by the current administration in 2002, most municipalities, provinces, and county-level entities retained Wade-Giles, with the aforementioned exceptions. In addition, "Yilan" is written in place of "Ilan".

Additionally, the ROC officially claims all of Mainland China (including Tibet) and outer Mongolia. See Political status of Taiwan for more information. Maps of China published in Taiwan will often show provincial boundaries as they were in 1949 which do not match the current administrative structure as decided by the Communist Party of China post-1949.

Table of contents

1 Counties 2 Provincially Administrated Cities 3 Municipalities 4 External Link

Counties

County in Chinese is 縣 (in pinyin: xian4, in Wade-Giles: hsien).

In Taiwan Province:

Romanization	Chinese	Wade-Giles	Pinyin	Pinyin with toness
Chiayi County	嘉義縣	Chia-i	Jiayi	jia1 yi4
Changhua County	彰化縣	Chang-hua	Zhanghua	zhang1 hua4
Hsinchu County	新竹縣	Hsin-chu	Xinzhu	xin1 zhu2
Hualien County	花蓮縣	Hua-lien	Hualian	hua1 lian2
Ilan County	宜蘭縣	I-lan	Yilan	yi2 lan2
Kaohsiung County	高雄縣	Kao-hsiung	Gaoxiong	gao1 xiong2
Miaoli County	苗栗縣	Miao-li	Miaoli	miao2 li4
Nantou County	南投縣	Nan-tou	Nantou	nan2 tou2
Penghu County (Pescadores)	澎湖縣	Peng-hu	Penghu	peng2 hu2
Pingtung County	屏東縣	Ping-tung	Pingdong	ping2 dong1
Taichung County	台中縣	Tai-chung	Taizhong	tai2 zhong1
Tainan County	台南縣	Tai-nan	Tainan	tai2 nan2
Taipei County	台北縣	Tai-pei	Taibei	tai2 bei3
Taitung County	台東縣	Tai-tung	Taidong	tai2 dong1
Taoyuan County	桃園縣	Tao-yuan	Taoyuan	tao2 yuan2
Yunlin County	雲林縣	Yun-lin	Yunlin	yun2 lin2

In Fujian Province (Wade-Giles: Fuchien):

Romanization	Chinese	Wade-Giles	Pinyin	Pinyin with tones
Lienchiang County (Matsu)	連江縣	Lien-chiang	Lianjiang	lian2 jiang1
Kinmen County (Quemoy)	金門縣	Kin-men	Jinmen	jin1 men2

Provincially Administrated Cities

Provincially administrated city in Chinese is 省轄市 (in pinyin: sheng3 xia2 shi4, in Wade-Giles: sheng-hsia-shih).

In Taiwan Province:

Romanization	Chinese	Wade-Giles	Pinyin	Pinyin with tones
Chiayi City	嘉義市	Chia-i	Jiayi	jia1 yi4
Hsinchu City	新竹市	Hsin-chu	Xinzhu	xin1 zhu2
Keelung City	基隆市	Chi-lung	Jilong	ji1 long2
Taichung City	台中市	Tai-chung	Taizhong	tai2 zhong1
Tainan City	台南市	Tai-nan	Tainan	tai2 nan2

Municipalities

Municipality in Chinese is 直轄市 (literal meaning: "Directly administrated city (by the central government)", in pinyin: zhi2 xia2 shi4, in Wade-Giles: chi-hsia-shih).

Romanization	Chinese	Wade-Giles	Pinyin	Pinyin with tones
Kaohsiung City	高雄市	Kao-hsiung	Gaoxiong	gao1 xiong2
Taipei City	台北市	Tai-pei	Taibei	tai2 bei3

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External Link

• 內政部地政司 (Department of Land Administration, Ministry of the Interior): Romanizations for county-level and township-level entities
• County and city flags
• map of ROC (including Quemoy and Matsu)