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The China–Vietnam border is the international boundary between China and Vietnam, consisting of a 1,297 km (806 mi) terrestrial border stretching from the tripoint with Laos in the west to the Gulf of Tonkin coast in the east, and a maritime border in the Gulf of Tonkin and South China Sea. [1]
The four seas of China, the Bohai Sea, the Huanghai Sea, the East China Sea, and the South China Sea, occupy a total area of about 4.7 million sq. km, half of the area of Mainland China. These seas are located in the southeastern margin of the Eurasian continent and subject to the interactions between the Eurasian, Pacific, and Indian ...
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"The Seven Seas" is a figurative term for all the seas of the known world. [1] The phrase is used in reference to sailors and pirates in the arts and popular culture and can be associated with the Mediterranean Sea, the Arabian Seven Seas east of Africa and India (as told with Sinbad's seven journeys, and Captain Kidd), or is sometimes applied to the Caribbean Sea and seas around the Americas ...
Seven Seas Marine Life Park, a defunct animal theme park in Arlington, Texas; Seven Seas Residence, former residence of Republic of China President Chiang Ching-kuo; Seven Seas Salad Dressing, a Kraft-owned line of salad dressing; The Seven Seas (poetry collection), a volume of poetry by Rudyard Kipling
The ownership of the islands remains hotly contested. The People's Republic of China (PRC) on mainland China, Vietnam, and the Republic of China (ROC) on Taiwan all claim de jure sovereignty, although the PRC has had de facto control of the archipelago since the Battle of the Paracel Islands in January 1974.
'Eternal Prosperity Island') by China and Taiwan and Phú Lâm Island (Vietnamese: Đảo Phú Lâm) by Vietnam (and formerly French: Île Boisée, lit. 'Wooded Island' by French Indochina), is the largest of the Paracel Islands in the South China Sea (SCS), with an area of 2.1 square kilometres (0.81 sq mi). [2]
Map of Cao Bang province in 1909. Cao Bằng's history can be traced to the Bronze Age when the Tày Tây Âu Kingdom flourished. The Tây Âu or Âu Việt were a conglomeration of upland Tai tribes living in what is today the mountainous region of northernmost Vietnam, western Guangdong, and southern Guangxi, China, since at least the 3rd century BC.