Pescadores
Taiwanese POJ: Phêⁿ-ô·-kōan, from Portuguese, "fishermen", pron. IPA []) are an archipelago off the western coast of Taiwan in the Taiwan Strait consisting of 64 small islands covering an area of 80 kilometers. They are administered as Penghu County (澎湖縣) under Taiwan Province of the Republic of China.
The county flower is a chrysanthemum called "The Immortals" (天人菊)."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
Qing Dynasty (Manchu), successively.
The Qing Dynasty 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 Qing Dynasty, the
Republic of China, in 1945.
Penghu County comprises one city and five townships: (in
Tongyong Pinyin)
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Magong City (馬公市
pinyin: Mǎgōng): 34 municipal villages (里
li)
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Husi Township (湖西鄉 Húxī): 22 town villages (村
ts'un)
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Baisha Township (白沙鄉 Báishā): 15
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Siyu Township (西嶼鄉 Xīy"): 11
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Cimei Township (七美鄉 Qīměi): 6
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Wang-an Township (望安鄉 Wàng'ān): 9
Altogether, there are 97 villages.
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Political divisions of the Republic of China*
Township (Taiwan)*
List of cities in the Republic of China (Taiwan)*
Republic of China*
Penghu County Government Official Website*
Penghu Tour Website*
Complete list of villages' names (
Traditional Chinese)
