Formosa

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Formosa is a place name which comes from Portuguese and old Spanish word formosa (*from latin formosus, meaning "beautiful").

The following places bear the name:

The geographically named island of Formosa, upon which the Taiwanese live, also sometimes called the Republic of China
* Formosa Strait (Taiwan Strait)
Formosan languages, the languages belonging to the Austronesian family of languages spoken by the indigenous people or aborigenes of the island of Formosa or Taiwan
Formosa Province, Argentina
* Formosa, Argentina, the capital of its namesake province
Formosa, Brazil, near Brasília in Goiás State
Formosa, Virginia, USA
Formosa, Arkansas, USA
Formosa, Santarém, Portugal
Formosa, Portalegre, Portugal
Formosa, Ontario, Canada
The name given to Bioko island by Fernando Poo
name given to a fort built by the Portuguese in Malacca in the 16th century.

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.

Formosa is also a surname found in the Maltese Islands.

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