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List of islands in the South China Sea

Islands in the South China Sea includes the South China Sea Islands (Spratly Islands, Pratas Island, 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.

The South China Sea

South China Sea Islands edit

Main article: South China Sea Islands

Pratas Island edit

Main article: Pratas Island

Administered as part of Cijin District, Kaohsiung City, Taiwan, Republic of China

Disputed islands edit

Paracel Islands edit

Main article: Paracel Islands
See also: Paracel Islands § List of entities

The Paracel Islands are occupied by the People's Republic of China (PRC), and claimed by the PRC, the ROC (Taiwan), and Vietnam.

Amphitrite Group Crescent Group Ungrouped

Spratly Islands edit

Main article: 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.[1] 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.[2] For some reason, neither of these mention the 11th largest naturally occurring island located on the Swallow Reef atoll, occupied by Malaysia. The islands are all of a similar nature; they are cays (or keys) – sand islands formed on old degraded and submerged coral reefs.[1]

Taiwan (ROC) Philippines Vietnam Malaysia
Reefs and artificial islands edit

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.[3]

Taiwan (ROC) China (PRC) Philippines Vietnam Malaysia Brunei

Scarborough Shoal edit

Main article: Scarborough Shoal

Macclesfield Bank edit

Main article: 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, even though it contains no islands.

Islands on the southern coast of China edit

Islands of Hainan edit

Islands of Guangxi edit

Islands of Guangdong edit

Islands of Macau edit

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 Hong Kong edit

See Islands and Peninsulas of Hong Kong for a full list.

Islands in the Taiwan Strait edit

Islands on the western coast of the Philippines edit

Islands of Borneo edit

Islands of Indonesia edit

Islands on the coast of Malay Peninsula edit

Islands in the Gulf of Siam edit

Islands on the eastern coast of Vietnam edit

See also edit

References edit

  1. ^ a b Claudius Madrolle (1939). "La question de Hai-nan et des Paracels" [The question of Hai-nan and Paracel]. Politique étrangère (in French).
  2. ^ "The Impact of Artificial Islands on Territorial Disputes Over The Sparatly Islands, by Zou Keyuan".
  3. ^ Refer to List of maritime features in the Spratly Islands#Features by area for a list of Features by area.
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