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Metropolitan Sees (Archdioceses) (1)

Episcopal Sees (Dioceses) (7)

Roman Rite (8): Chiayi 嘉義, Hsinchu 新竹, Hualien 花蓮, Kaohsiung 高雄, Taichung 臺中, Tainan 臺南, Taipei 臺北, Xiamen 廈門

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Basilicas (2)

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Jubilee Churches in the Extraordinary Jubilee of Mercy (2016)

Saints: 1 Saint

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Continent: South and East Asia

Capital: Taipei

Area: 32,260 km²

Population: 23,508,428

Neighbouring Countries: ← China , ↗ Japan , ↓ Philippines

Religions: Buddhist 35.3%, Taoist 33.2%, Christian 3.9%, Taoist or Confucian folk religionist approximately 10%, none or unspecified 18.2%

Languages: Mandarin Chinese (official), Taiwanese (Min Nan), Hakka dialects

Ethnic Groups: more than 95% Han Chinese (including Hoklo, who compose approximately 70% of Taiwan's population, Hakka, and other groups originating in mainland China), 2.3% indigenous Malayo-Polynesian peoples

Area: 35,961 km²

Catholic Population: 221,000 Catholics (0.9% of 23,507,000 total)

Pastoral Centres: 424 parishes, 71 mission stations (34 with resident priest, 37 without resident priest), 8 other centres

Clergy: 14 bishops (5 diocesan, 9 titular), 575 priests (198 diocesan, 377 religious), 1 permanent deacon (religious)

Non-Clergy: 1,056 religious (19 brothers, 1,037 sisters), 90 members of secular institutes (sisters), 65 major seminarians, 282 missionaries, 225 catechists