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Penghu County 澎湖縣 Abbreviation(s): Penghu (澎湖)
County seat	Magong City
Region	Taiwan Strait
County Magistrate	Chien-fa Wang (王乾發)
Cities	1
Townships	5
Area
- Total	141.052 km² (22 of 25)
- % water	0 %
Population
- Total	91,950 (2007) (23 of 25)
- Density	724.79/km²
Symbols
- County flower	Firewheel (Gaillardia pulchella)
- County tree	Chinese Banyan (Ficus microcarpa)
- County bird	Small Skylark (Alauda gulgula)
Official websites	www.penghu.gov.tw

The Pescadores (Traditional Chinese: 澎湖群島; Hanyu Pinyin: Pénghú Qúndăo; Tongyong Pinyin: Pénghú Cyúndăo; Wade-Giles: P'eng-Hu Ch'ün-Tao; Taiwanese POJ: Phêⁿ-ô·-kûn-tó, from Portuguese, "fishermen", pron. IPA: [pɨʃ.kɐ.'ðo.ɾɨʃ]) are an archipelago off the western coast of Taiwan in the Taiwan Strait consisting of 90 small islands covering an area of 141 square kilometers. They are administered as Penghu County, Taiwan Province, Republic of China.

Contents 1 History 2 Sub-county divisions 3 Miscellaneous facts 4 See also 5 External links

"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 French Navy briefly occupied the islands during the Sino-French War

The Qing Dynasty then ceded these islands to Japan in 1895 in the Sino-Japanese Treaty of Shimonoseki along with Taiwan.

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." In the Treaty of San Francisco, Japan renounced sovereignty over Formosa and the Pescadores but left their final disposition unsettled. The archipelago has been administered by the Republic of China as part of its Taiwan Province since 1945.

A disaster struck on May 25, 2002, when a Boeing 747-200 aircraft operated by China Airlines, as China Airlines Flight 611, flying from Taipei, Taiwan to Hong Kong disintegrated, and then exploded, over the Islands, and its wreckage slammed into the Taiwan Strait, a couple of miles off coast. All 225 passengers and Crew on board were killed. The Disaster is known as the "Taiwan Tragedy." As faulty maintenance was the cause of the accident, China Airlines have improved their safety severely, and are a much safer airline now.

• Magong City (馬公市) (Heaven Queen Island)
• Husi Township (湖西鄉) (Lake West Island)
• Baisha Township (白沙鄉) (White Sand Island)
• Siyu Township (西嶼鄉) (Fisherman Island)
• Cimei Township (七美鄉) (Seven Beauties Island)
• Wang-an Township (望安鄉) (Hope Island)

Altogether, there are 97 villages.

Heaven Queen Island (Makung), White Sand Island (Baisha), and Lake West Island (Huxi) are the three most populous islands and are all connected in circle via bridges (excepting the connection between Heaven Queen Island and Lake West Island). The bridge connecting White Sand Island and Lake West Island is the longest bridge in the Republic of China (Taiwan) and is called the PengHu Trans-Oceanic Bridge (澎湖跨海大橋 Peng Hu Kua Hai Da Qiao).

The county flower is a chrysanthemum called "The Immortals" (天人菊).

• Political divisions of the Republic of China
• Township (Taiwan)
• List of cities in the Republic of China (Taiwan)
• Republic of China
• China Airlines Flight 611

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• Penghu County Government Official Website
• Penghu Tour Official Website
• Complete list of villages' names (Traditional Chinese)

v • d • e Administrative divisions of the Republic of China (Current jurisdiction)
Provinces (streamlined)	Taiwan Province · Fuchien Province
Central Municipalities	Taipei City · Kaohsiung City
Counties (Taiwan Province)	Taipei County · Taoyuan County · Hsinchu County · Miaoli County · Taichung County · Changhua County · Nantou County · Yunlin County · Chiayi County · Tainan County · Kaohsiung County · Pingtung County · Yilan County · Hualien County · Taitung County · Penghu County
Counties (Fuchien Province)	Kinmen County · Lienchiang County
Provincial Cities (Taiwan Province)	Keelung City · Hsinchu City · Taichung City · Chiayi City · Tainan City

v • d • e Territorial disputes in East, South, and Southeast Asia
Type	Territory	Currently Administered by	Claimants
Land:	Aksai Chin		2
	Arunachal Pradesh		2
	Assam
	East Turkestan		1 2
	Heixiazi / Bolshoy Ussuriyskiy (Eastern part)2
	Heixiazi / Bolshoy Ussuriyskiy (Western part)2
	Indo-Bangladesh enclaves3
	Kashmir3		2
	Kachin State		1 2
	Kayin State		1
	Korean Peninsula and its adjacent islands3
	Mainland China2
	Mongolia2
	Pamir Mountains (Northern and central parts)2
	Pamir Mountains (Southern part)2
	Pattani		1
	Sabah		2
	Shan State		1
	Sixty-Four Villages East of the Heilongjiang River2
	Tannu Uriankhai (now Tuva Republic of Russia)2
	Tibet		1 2
	Trans-Karakoram Tract		2
	Wa State		1
Islands and Waters:	Kinmen
	Liancourt Rocks		2
	Macclesfield Bank
	Matsu
	Paracel Islands
	Pedra Branca
	Pratas Islands
	Scarborough Shoal
	Senkaku Islands
	Sir Creek3
	Socotra Rock		2 2
	Southern Kuril Islands
	Spratly Islands3
	Taiwan and Pescadores
Notes:	1Government in exile/exiled group. 2Inactive dispute. 3Divided among multiple claimants.

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Coordinates: 23°35′N, 119°35′E