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Taiwan
- Taioaan in Modern Literal Taiwanese
- 臺灣 is the officially encouraged form
- See Taai-oaan (Harnji) for more details
- About 180 km east of coastal Fujian (Hokkiexn Serng, which lies across the Of Zuykaw).
- To the south, the island of Taiwan is separated from the Philippine island of Luzon by the 250 km-wide Luzon Strait.
- The true derivation of the name "Taiwan" is actually from the ethnonym of a tribe in the southwest part of the island. (Mair (2003): How to Forget Your Mother Tongue and Remember Your National Language)