Located in Eastern Asia, consisting of islands bordering the East China Sea, Philippine Sea, South China Sea, and Taiwan Strait, north of the Philippines, off the southeastern coast of China.

Taiwan has no land boundaries.

Domain Information

Taiwan is located in ICANN's Asia/Australia/Pacific Region. Anyone located in this region is eligible for .asia domain registrations. If one of your contacts lives in Taiwan you can register a .asia domain.

A country code top-level domain (ccTLD) is an Internet top-level domain generally used or reserved for a country or a dependent territory.

ccTLD identifiers are two letters long, all two-letter top-level domains are ccTLDs. Creation and delegation of ccTLDs is performed by the Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA), and with certain exceptions corresponds to the ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 country codes maintained by the ISO 3166 Maintenance Agency.

Taiwan ccTLD: .tw

The country code is open to foreign registrations.

Country Information

Population

22858872 (July 07 est)

Capital

Taipei

GDP

$346.7 billion (2006 est)

Currency

New Taiwan Dollar (TWD)

Internet Hosts

5.111 million (2007)

Internet Users

13.21 million (2005)