Tai-wan, once the capital of the island of Formosa (q.v.), still under its Japanese masters a large trading city, is on a plain about 3 miles from the south-west coast, with a pop. of above 60,000.
Tai-wan
Chambers's Encyclopaedia, Volume 10: Swastika to Zyrianovsk and Index, p. 50
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