Main Page | See live article | Alphabetical index Formosa is a placename which comes from the Portuguese word meaning beautiful: The non-native name for the island of Taiwan Formosa Strait (Taiwan Strait) Formosa Province, Argentina, next to Asunción, Paraguay Formosa, Argentina, the capital of its namesake province Formosa, Brazil, near Brasília in Goiás State Formosa, Virgina, USA Formosa, Arkansas, USA Formosa, Santarém, Portugal Formosa, Portalegre, Portugal 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. See also: Formosa Magazine This is a disambiguation page; that is, one that just points to other pages that might otherwise have the same name. If you followed a link here, you might want to go back and fix that link to point to the appropriate specific page. This article is from Wikipedia. All text is available under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License.