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Islands in the South China Sea includes the South China Sea Islands (Spratly Islands, Pratas Islands, Paracel Islands and Macclesfield Bank), islands on the China coast, on the Vietnam coast, on the Borneo coast, and the peripheral islands of Taiwan, the Philippines, etc.
Contents
- Map of Wuzhizhou Haitang Sanya China
- Islands of Guangdong
- Islands of Hong Kong
- Islands of Macau
- Islands of Guangxi
- Islands of Hainan
- Islands in the Taiwan Strait
- Pratas Islands
- Macclesfield Bank
- Paracel Islands
- Spratly Islands
- Reefs and artificial islands
- Islands on the eastern coast of Vietnam
- Islands on the western coast of the Philippines
- Islands in the Gulf of Siam
- Islands on the coast of Malay Peninsula
- Islands of Borneo
- Islands of Indonesia
- References
Map of Wuzhizhou, Haitang, Sanya, China
Islands of Guangdong
Islands of Hong Kong
See Islands and Peninsulas of Hong Kong for a full list.
Islands of Macau
Ilha Verde is connected to the Macao Peninsula as a result of land reclamation. Ilha de Coloane and Ilha da Taipa are connected (to each other), also as a result of land reclamation.
Islands of Guangxi
Islands of Hainan
Islands in the Taiwan Strait
Pratas Islands
Administered as part of Kaohsiung City, Taiwan, Republic of China
Macclesfield Bank
There are no islands, nor any land above sea-level, in the Macclesfield Bank.
In conjunction with the Scarborough Shoal, which also contains no islands, the PRC refer to the combined area as the Zhongsha Islands, a strange choice of name given that it contains no islands.
Paracel Islands
See Paracel Islands#List of all geographical entities with Chinese and Vietnamese names for a complete list.
The Paracel Islands are occupied by the People's Republic of China (PRC), and claimed by the PRC, the ROC (Taiwan), and Vietnam.
Spratly Islands
See also List of maritime features in the Spratly Islands The Spratly Islands were, in 1939, fourteen coral islets mostly inhabited by countless seabirds. According to a Chinese 1986 source, the Spratly Islands consist of 14 islands or islets, 6 banks, 113 submerged reefs, 35 underwater banks, 21 underwater shoals. The 14 islands are all of the same nature. They are cays (or keys); sand islands formed on old degraded and submerged coral reefs.
Reefs and artificial islands
Note that, according PRC, in the Spratly Islands area, the definition of "island" is applied very liberally to reefs and artificial islands. There are in fact only about a dozen islands with an area greater than 1 hectare.