Taiwan

The country calling code for Taiwan is +886. Country calling codes identify the destination country when placing an international call. The international access prefix used to leave your originating country varies by telephone network. On mobile phones, the + symbol is generally used instead. After the country code, dial the local Taiwan number, dropping any leading zero used for domestic dialling.

Taiwan is assigned TW as its ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 code and TWN as its alpha-3 code. Alpha-2 codes are the two-letter codes used in web addresses, currency pairs and shipping forms. Alpha-3 codes are the three-letter codes used in banking, aviation and international standards work. The internet country code top-level domain for Taiwan is .tw. ISO country codes are standardized identifiers, but they can change when countries or territories undergo changes in international status or classification.

The official currency of Taiwan is the New Taiwan dollar, with the ISO 4217 code TWD and the symbol $. Prices, salaries and official accounts inside Taiwan are quoted in TWD. Exchange rates move daily, so check a live rate before converting rather than relying on a figure you saw last week.

The primary time zone for Taiwan is +08:00, currently UTC+08:00. The clock reads from your own device, so it follows daylight saving rather than showing a fixed offset.

The capital of Taiwan is Taipei. Taiwan sits in Asia, specifically the Eastern Asia subregion. Its approximate centre point is 23.50000000, 121.00000000. Traffic in Taiwan drives on the right. Languages recorded for Taiwan: Chinese.

No land borders are recorded for Taiwan in this dataset, which is typical of island states and territories. The nearby page still ranks the closest countries by straight-line distance.