Penghu

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The Penghu ( PUNG-HOO, Hokkien POJ: Phîⁿ-ô͘ or Phêⁿ-ô͘ ) or Pescadores Islands are an archipelago of 90 islands and islets in the Taiwan Strait, about 50 kilometres (25 nautical miles) west of the main island of Taiwan across the Penghu Channel, covering an area of 141 km2 (54 sq mi). The archipelago collectively forms Penghu County. The largest city is Magong, on the largest island. The Penghu islands first appear in the historical record in the Tang dynasty and were inhabited by Chinese people under the Song dynasty, during which they were attached to Jinjiang County of Fujian. The archipelago was formally incorporated as an administrative unit of China in 1281 under Tong'an County. It continued to be controlled by Imperial China with brief European occupations by the Dutch (1622–1624) and Second French colonial empire (1885), until it was ceded to the Japanese in 1895. The Surrender of Japan in 1945 ended its rule of the archipelago, which has since been governed by the Republic of...

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