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The South China Sea is a marginal sea of the Western Pacific Ocean.It is bounded in the north by South China, in the west by the Indochinese Peninsula, in the east by the islands of Taiwan and northwestern Philippines (mainly Luzon, Mindoro and Palawan), and in the south by Borneo, eastern Sumatra and the Bangka Belitung Islands, encompassing an area of around 3,500,000 km 2 (1,400,000 sq mi).
The South China Sea territorial disputes has dominated proceedings at the conference in recent years. [167] [168] [169] The Council for Security Cooperation in the Asia Pacific is the "Track Two" forum for dialogue on security issues. [170] [171]
In December 1947, the Ministry of Interior of the Nationalist government released "Location Map of South Sea Islands" (南海諸島位置圖) showing an eleven-dash line. [7] [23] Scholarly accounts place its publication from 1946 to 1948 and indicate that it originated from an earlier one titled "Map of Chinese Islands in the South China Sea" (中国南海岛屿图) published by the ROC Land ...
China has upset many countries in the Asia-Pacific region with its release of a new official map that lays claim to most of the South China Sea, as well as to contested parts of India and Russia ...
China released the map on Monday of its famous U-shaped line covering about 90% of the South China Sea, a source of many of the disputes in one of the world's most contested waterways, where more ...
Obscure maps and excessive claims. Beijing’s claim to nearly all of the South China Sea extends back to the 1930s, when its official cartographers drew ambitious maps purporting to represent the ...
1734 – The Spanish colonial government published the first edition of the Velarde map.According to the Philippines, this map shows the territories of the Philippines including actual sovereignty over the Scarborough Shoal (called Panacot in the map) and the Spratly Islands (referred as Los Bajos de Paragua) and is the earliest map showing sovereignty over the said territories.
Plantilla:Mapa de localización Mar de China meridional; Usage on ar.wikipedia.org هاينان; قالب:Location map South China Sea; Usage on az.wikipedia.org Şablon:Yer xəritəsi Cənubi Çin dənizi; Usage on ban.wikipedia.org Mal:Location map Segara Cina Kelod; Usage on bcl.wikipedia.org Bahurang Julian Felipe; Usage on be.wikipedia.org