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Category | Special municipalities, counties, and cities |
Location | Republic of China (Taiwan) |
Number | 13 |
Populations | 13,089–1,272,939 |
Areas | 29–4629 km2 |
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Subdivisions |
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Traditional Chinese | 縣 | ||||||||||||||||||||
Simplified Chinese | 县 | ||||||||||||||||||||
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Administrative divisions of Taiwan |
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Centrally-governed |
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Historical divisions of Taiwan (1895–1945) Republic of China (1912–49) |
A county,[I] constitutionally known as a hsien,[1] is a de jure second-level administrative division unit in the Republic of China (Taiwan). Under the administrative structure of Taiwan, it is with the same level of a provincial city.
The counties were formerly under the jurisdiction of provinces, but the provinces were streamlined and effectively downsized to non-self-governing bodies in 1998, in 2018 all provincial governmental organs were formally abolished.[2][3] Counties along with former "provincial cities" which alternately designated as simply "Cities", are presently regarded as principal subdivisions directed by the central government of Taiwan.
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