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The East Sea and Spratly Islands Campaign (Vietnamese: Chiến dịch Trường Sa và các đảo trên Biển Đông) was a naval operation which took place during the closing days of the Vietnam War in April 1975. The operation took place on Spratly Islands and other islands in the South China Sea (known in Vietnam as the East Sea).
The Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment (MONRE, Vietnamese: Bộ Tài nguyên và Môi trường) is a government ministry in Vietnam responsible for: land, water resources; mineral resources, geology; environment; hydrometeorology; climate change; surveying and mapping; management of the islands and the sea.
' the Big Spratly (Trường Sa) Island '; simplified Chinese: 南威岛; traditional Chinese: 南威島; pinyin: Nánwēi Dǎo; Filipino: Pulo ng Lagos, lit. 'Lagos Island'), also known as Storm Island , is the fourth largest of the naturally occurring [ 1 ] Spratly Islands in the South China Sea with an area of 15 hectares (37 acres), [ 2 ...
A Vietnamese map from 1834 also combines the Spratly and Paracel Islands into one region known as "Vạn Lý Trường Sa", a feature commonly incorporated into maps of the era (萬里長沙) ‒ that is, the same as the aforementioned Chinese island name Wanli Changsha. [56]
Truong Sa Dong Island Đảo Trường Sa Đông Central London Reef: 25 Truong Sa Dong Island is a small sand island in Central London Reef 5 Phan Vinh Island Đảo Phan Vinh Pearson Reef: 58 Phan Vinh Island is a small sandy island belonging to Pearson Reef. Today, Vietnam has built up a large island with an area 13 times its natural area.
The Government of the Socialist Republic of Vietnam (Vietnamese: Chính phủ nước Cộng hòa xã hội chủ nghĩa Việt Nam; less formally the Vietnamese Government or the Government of Vietnam, Vietnamese: Chính phủ Việt Nam) is the cabinet and the central executive body of the state administration of Vietnam.
Trường Sa district was established on the basis of small coral islands/cays, reefs and banks of the Spratly Islands which are 248 nautical miles (459 km; 285 mi) south east of Cam Ranh.
-Spratly Islands (Trường Sa district, Khánh Hòa province [43]) According to the census results of April 1, 2023, the population of Vietnam was 103,403,000. [ 2 ] The most populous top-level administrative unit is Hồ Chí Minh City , one of the five centrally governed cities , having 9,125,000 people living within its official boundary.