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Penghu County
澎湖縣
Abbreviation(s): Penghu (澎湖) |
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| Capital |
Magong City |
| Region |
Taiwan Strait |
| County Magistrate |
Lai Feng-wei (賴峰偉) |
| Cities |
1 |
| Townships |
5 |
| Area |
| - Total |
126.8641 km2
(22 of 25) |
| - % water |
0 % |
| Population |
| - Total |
91,840 (2004)
(23 of 25) |
| - Density |
724/km2 |
| Symbols |
| - County flower |
Firewheel (Gaillardia pulchella) |
| - County tree |
Chinese Banyan (Ficus microcarpa) |
| - County bird |
Small Skylark (Alauda gulgula) |
| Official websites |
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The Pescadores Islands (Traditional Chinese: 澎湖群島; Hanyu Pinyin: Pénghú; Wade-Giles: P'eng-hu; Taiwanese POJ: Phêⁿ-ô·-kōan, from Portuguese, "fishermen", pron. IPA [pɨʃ.kɐ.'ðo.ɾɨʃ]) are an archipelago in the Taiwan Strait. They are administered by the Republic of China (Taiwan) as Penghu County (澎湖縣).
The county flower is a chrysanthemum called "The Immortals" (天人菊).
History
"P'eng-hu" was first recorded in unofficial historical records and regional logs in 1171 during the Southern Song Dynasty. From the middle of the 17th century to 1895, Formosa (Taiwan) and the Pescadores (Penghu) were ruled by pirates, the colonial Dutch Empire, the Koxinga kingdom, and the Manchu Empire, successively.
The Manchu Empire then ceded these islands to Japan in 1895 in the Sino-Japanese Treaty of Shimonoseki.
In the Cairo Declaration of 1943, the United States, United Kingdom, and China stated it to be their purpose that "all the territories that Japan has stolen from the Chinese, such as Formosa and the Pescadores, shall be restored to the Republic of China."
On July 26, 1945, the three governments issued the Potsdam Declaration, declaring that "the terms of the Cairo Declaration shall be carried out," but did not formally do so in the Treaty of San Francisco. In the Treaty of San Francisco, Japan gave up the sovereignty over Formosa and the Pescadores but did not state to whom it ceded these islands. It was returned to and has since been part of the successor of the Manchu Empire, the Republic of China, in 1945.
Sub-county divisions
Penghu County comprises one city and five townships: (in Tongyong Pinyin)
- Magong City (馬公市 pinyin: Mǎgōng): 34 municipal villages (里 li)
- Husi Township (湖西鄉 Húxī): 22 town villages (村 ts'un)
- Baisha Township (白沙鄉 Báishā): 15
- Siyu Township (西嶼鄉 Xīyǔ): 11
- Cimei Township (七美鄉 Qīměi): 6
- Wang-an Township (望安鄉 Wàng'ān): 9
Altogether, there are 97 villages.
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