Which country was earlier known as Formosa?

Q. Which country was earlier known as Formosa?
Answer: Taiwan
Notes: The Republic of Formosa is nothing but today’s Taiwan. It was a short-lived republic that existed on the island of Taiwan in 1895 between the formal cession of Taiwan by the Qing dynasty of China to the Empire of Japan by the Treaty of Shimonoseki.

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