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[[File:苗栗縣政府 Miaoli County Government - panoramio.jpg|thumb|[[Miaoli]], the county seat of [[Miaoli County]], in Taiwan]]

In [[Taiwan]], the first counties were first established in 1661 by the [[Kingdom of Tungning]]. The later ruler [[Taiwan under Qing rule|Qing empire]] inherited this type of administrative divisions. With the increase of [[Han Chinese]] population in Taiwan, the number of counties also grew by time. By the end of Qing era, there were 11 counties in Taiwan. [[Protestant missions in China|Protestant missionaries]] in China first romanized the term as '''hien'''.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Davidson |first1=James W. |author-link=James W. Davidson |title=The Island of Formosa, Past and Present: History, People, Resources, and Commercial Prospects: Tea, Camphor, Sugar, Gold, Coal, Sulphur, Economical Plants, and Other Productions |year=1903 |publisher=Macmillan & Co. |url=https://archive.org/details/islandofformosap00davi |location=London and New York |ol=6931635M |page=[https://archive.org/details/islandofformosap00davi/page/93 93]}}</ref> When [[Taiwan under Japanese rule|Taiwan]] became a [[Empire of Japan|Japanese colony]] in 1895, the hierarchy of divisions also incorporated into the [[Administrative divisions of Japan|Japanese system]] in the period when [[Taiwan was under Japanese rule]].

By September 1945, Taiwan was divided into 8 [[prefectures of Japan|prefectures]] ({{lang|ja|州}} and {{lang|ja|廳}}), which remained after the [[Republic of China (1912–1949)|Republic of China]] took over.