Taiwan

Taiwan stands for:

• Taiwan (island) , formerly also Formosa , island in the west Pacific off the Chinese mainland
• the Republic of China (Taiwan) , a state on the East Asian island of Taiwan
• Japanese colony (1895–1945), see Taiwan under Japanese rule
• Democratic Republic of Taiwan (1895), the historic Republic of Formosa
• Taiwan Province , Province of the Republic of China (Taiwan), claimed by the People's Republic of China
• (2169) Taiwan , asteroid

This is a disambiguation page for differentiating between several terms identified with the same word.