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Taiwan
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Capital: Taipei
Total Area: 13,891.96 sq mi,35,980.00 sq km,(slightly smaller than Maryland and Delaware combined)
Population: 22,370,461 (July 2001 est.)
Estimated Population in 2050: 24,596,527
Languages: Mandarin Chinese (official), Taiwanese (Min), Hakka dialects
Literacy: 86% total, 93% male, 79% female (1980 est.),note: literacy for the total population has reportedly increased to 94% (1998 est.)
Religions: mixture of Buddhist, Confucian, and Taoist 93%, Christian 4.5%, other 2.5%
Life Expectancy: 73.81 male, 79.51 female (2001 est.)
Government Type: multiparty democratic regime headed by popularly elected president
Currency: 1 New Taiwan dollar (NT$) = 100 cents
GDP (per capita): $17,400 (2000 est.)
Industry: electronics, petroleum refining, chemicals, textiles, iron and steel, machinery, cement, food processing
Agriculture: rice, corn, vegetables, fruit, tea; pigs, poultry, beef, milk; fish
Arable Land: 24%
Natural Resources: small deposits of coal, natural gas, limestone, marble, and asbestos Detail Information:
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