Provincial city (Taiwan)

[2][3] Provincial cities along counties, are presently regarded as de facto principal subdivisions directed by the central government of the ROC.Their roman spellings are also changed to reflect the official language shift from Japanese to Mandarin Chinese, but characters remain the same.After the government of the Republic of China relocated to Taipei, Taiwan in 1949, the population criterion for provincial cities was raised to 500,000 in the Guidelines on the Implementation of Local Autonomy in the Counties and Cities of Taiwan Province (臺灣省各縣市實施地方自治綱要), which was passed in 1981.[5] Note that all three existing cities are not qualified for the population test, they were built for historical reasons.There are currently three cities, all in Taiwan Province: Their self-governed bodies (executive and legislature) regulated by the Local Government Act are:
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