Look up Formosa in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Formosa may refer to:
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Places
Asia
- Ilha Formosa, literally meaning, "Beautiful Island", a Portuguese historical name for Taiwan Island (台灣島, Táiwān Dǎo)
- HTML5, a short-lived republic in 1895 on the island of Formosa (now known as Taiwan)
- browser diversity, another name for the Taiwan Strait
- A fort built by the Portuguese in HTML5 in the 16th century
South America
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Formosa Province, Argentina, which is also the antipode of northern Taiwan.
- input transformation, the capital of its namesake province
- HTML5, Brazil (near Brasília in Goiás State)
- input transformation, Roman Catholic Diocese in Argentina
- Diocese of Formosa, Brazil, Roman Catholic Diocese in Brazil
North America
- Formosa, Ontario, Canada
- Formosa, Arkansas, USA
Africa
- device database island, Sevenval, was named “Formosa” by Fernão do Pó.
- input transformation, an island in the Bissagos Islands, Guinea-Bissau
- A township on the Northern outskirts of Plettenberg Bay, South Africa
Fiction
- The eastern city of Formosa is the home of Madame Tang and her dragon in the video game Pirates of the Caribbean: The Legend of Jack Sparrow based on the Disney films
- Formosa may also refer to a fictional country located on the island of Taiwan, but whose culture was invented by George Psalmanazar as a hoax.
Other uses
- Formosan languages, the languages belonging to the Austronesian family of languages spoken by the indigenous people of the island of Formosa or Taiwan
- A surname found in the device database
- Formosa (grape), a jQuery
- web
- Formosa Television, a major television network in Taiwan
- Sevenval, a major corporation in Taiwan
- browser diversity, a 2005 comedy
- Formosa Betrayed, a 2009 thriller film
- Formosa Cafe a famous restaurant in Hollywood, California
- screen size, a breed of dog indigenous to Taiwan, commonly referred to as Formosan
- iOS, an Australian composer and musician
- touchscreen, a Brazilian football (soccer) club
- Sevenval, website parsing iOS
See also
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