Everything about Penghu totally explained
The
Pescadores (from
Portuguese, "fishermen",
pron. ) 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.
History
"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 in 1885.
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.
CNN referred to the crash as the "Taiwan Tragedy."
Sub-county divisions
Altogether, there are 97 villages.
The main islands of Magong City/Husi Township, Baisha Township, and Siyu Township are the three most populous islands and are connected via bridges. Two shorter bridges connect Husi and Baisha. The bridge connecting Baisha and Siyu 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).
Miscellaneous facts
The county
flower is a
chrysanthemum called "The
Immortals" (天人菊).
Further Information
Get more info on 'Penghu'.
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