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Close ✕Taiwan
The island off the southeastern coast of mainland China which holds the deepest divisions of the Austronesian family, and is therefore identified as its homeland.
23.7, 121.0 · regional · permanent geographic feature; Neolithic settlement from the fifth millennium BCE
On the world
- Joined to: The Luzon Strait — Taiwan · 2 places
- A place in: The Language Families · 4 places
Lines mark links and orders the records assert; no path between any two places is recorded, and none is drawn.
Connections · 3 of 4
- is adjacent to of The Luzon Strait — The strait lies immediately south of Taiwan, between the island and the northern Philippines.
- is constrained by of The AI accelerator — Leading-edge fabrication for AI accelerators is concentrated in a small number of facilities, most of them in Taiwan, so accelerator supply is bounded by capacity in one jurisdiction.
- is originates in of Austronesian — Nearly all primary branches of the family are Formosan, and genealogical diversity marks the region a lineage has occupied longest.
Mission history61 missions · 1959 → 2026 · 2 planned
1145 objects · 280 located (1 withheld pending verification) · 865 unlocated · No relief basemap · marks drawn only from sourced coordinates