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The Taiwan Strait or Formosa Strait is a 180km-wide Strait between mainland China and the island of Taiwan. The strait is part of the South China Sea and connects to East China Sea to the northeast. The narrowest part is 131km wide. Fujian province on the mainland is to the west of the strait, while important islands like Quemoy, Amoy, Hainan Island, and the Matsu Islands are nearby. To the east are the west coast of Taiwan and the Pescadores. The island fishermen use the strait as a fishing resource. The Strait has been the theatre for several military confrontations between the People's Republic of China and the Republic of China since the last days of the Chinese Civil War in 1949 when the Kuomintang forces led by Chiang Kai-shek retreated across the Strait and relocated its government on its final stronghold of Taiwan. The Minjiang River (Fujian)|Minjiang and Jiulong River|Jiulong Rivers empty into the strait.
China-geo-stub ROC-geo-stub ja:台湾海峡 zh:台灣海峽 pt:Estreito de Taiwan The Taiwan Strait is often incorrectly called the Taiwan Straits, even though there is no "s" after strait. Even high level government officials at the US State Department make this mistake. http://taiwanstrait.blogspot.com This article is licensed under the GNU Free Documentation License. It uses material from the Wikipedia article "Strait of Taiwan".
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