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Kuomintang is the main political party in Republic of China (Taiwan). It was ruling in Mainland China until 1949 when Communists captured the mainland and the KMT moved to Taiwan.

It was founded by Song Jiaoren and Sun Yat-sen. Chiang Kai-shek later led for decades.

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  • The revolutionary army attacks Nanking and crosses a stream Wellcome V0047152 (cropped)

    The Revolutionary Army attacking Nanjing in 1911

  • Sun Yat Sen portrait 2 (9to12)

    The KMT reveres its founder, Sun Yat-sen, as the "Father of the Nation"

  • 1st National Congress of Kuomintang of China

    Venue of the 1st National Congress of Kuomintang in 1924

  • Chiang Kai-shek

    Chiang Kai-shek, leader of the Kuomintang after Sun's death in 1925

  • Bundesarchiv Bild 135-S-13-14-22, Tibetexpedition, Haus mit Glückszeichen

    KMT flag displayed in Lhasa, Tibet in 1938

  • Countermand concession

    The National Revolutionary Army soldiers marched into the British concessions in Hankou during the Northern Expedition

  • Kuomintang Party in Xinjiang 1942

    The KMT in Tihwa, Sinkiang in 1942

  • Kmtarmy

    Nationalist soldiers during the Second Sino-Japanese War

  • 19451025 中國戰區臺灣省受降典禮後 臺灣省警備總司令部全體官兵合影

    The retrocession of Taiwan in Taipei on 25 October 1945

  • KMT Headquarters, Taipei

    The former KMT headquarters in Taipei City (1949–2006), whose imposing structure, directly facing the Presidential Office Building, was seen as a symbol of the party's wealth and dominance

  • Pan-blue supporters during 2004 ROC presidential election with ROC flags

    Pan-blue supporters at a rally during the 2004 presidential election

  • Shilin Division, Kuomintang Taipei City Committee 20161231

    Kuomintang public service center in Shilin, Taipei

  • Kuomintang nanjing

    Lien Chan (middle) and Wu Po-hsiung (second left) and the KMT touring the Sun Yat-sen Mausoleum in Nanjing, People's Republic of China when the Pan-Blue coalition visited the mainland in 2005

  • Kuomintang Central Committee 20050405

    KMT headquarters in Taipei City before the KMT Central Committee moved in June 2006 to a much more modest Bade building, having sold the original headquarters to private investors of the EVA Airways Corporation

  • KMT Kinmen 20141231

    KMT Kinmen headquarters office in Jincheng Township, Kinmen County

  • KMT Blg

    KMT Building in Vancouver's Chinatown, British Columbia, Canada

  • Pingzhen Division, Kuomintang Taoyuan County Committee 20131023

    KMT branch office in Pingzhen District, Taoyuan City

  • KMT San Francisco Headquarters (6532)

    The KMT maintains offices in some of the Chinatowns of the world and its United States party headquarters are located in San Francisco Chinatown, on Stockton Street directly across the Chinese Six Companies

  • Kmtny

    KMT Eastern U.S. headquarters is in New York Chinatown

  • Chinese Nationalist Party of Australia building Ultimo Rd in Sydney

    KMT office of Australasia in Sydney, Australia

  • NRA Generals Northern Expedition

    From left to right, KMT members pay tribute to the Sun Yat-sen Mausoleum in Beijing in 1928 after the success of the Northern Expedition: Generals Cheng Jin, Zhang Zuobao, Chen Diaoyuan, Chiang Kai-shek, Woo Tsin-hang, Yan Xishan, General Ma Fuxiang, Ma Sida and General Bai Chongxi

  • TaipeiMosque

    Taipei Grand Mosque

See also

Kids robot.svg In Spanish: Kuomintang para niños

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