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The Taiwan Strait is a 180-kilometer (110 mi; 97 nmi)-wide strait separating the island of Taiwan and the Asian continent. The strait is part of the South China Sea and connects to the East China Sea to the north.
The island of Taiwan, formerly known to Westerners as Formosa, has an area of 35,808 square kilometres (13,826 sq mi) and makes up 99% of the land under ROC control. It lies about 180 kilometres (112 mi) across the Taiwan Strait from the southeastern coast of the People's Republic of China (PRC).
Strait Location Cabot Strait: Newfoundland and Cape Breton Island: Caicos Passage: Turks and Caicos Islands and the Bahamas: Strait of Canso: Cape Breton Island and mainland Nova Scotia: Carquinez Strait: San Pablo Bay and Suisun Bay, California: Cebu Strait (a.k.a. Bohol Strait) Bohol and Cebu: Chatham Strait: Chichagof Island and Admiralty ...
The Taiwan Strait, located between mainland China and the sovereign island nation, is a busy trade route and international waterway. The US and its allies and partners, including Taiwan, maintain ...
Taiwan's fleet of P-3C Orion anti-submarine aircraft are based at the Pingtung air base in southern Taiwan, giving easy access to the southern part of the strait. Taiwan has complained in recent ...
Of the aircraft, 26 flew in an area to the north of Taiwan off the coast of China's Zhejiang province, six in the Taiwan Strait and a further 15 to the island's southwest, according to a map the ...
Location map of outlying islands governed by Taiwan Penghu Islands. Island of Taiwan (Formosa; 臺灣島) Kaohsiung. Cijin (旗津島); formerly a longshore bar connected to the island of Taiwan at the southern tip, this link was severed in 1975 due to Kaohsiung Port construction. Keelung City. Keelung Islet (基隆嶼) Hoping Island
China claims sovereignty over democratically governed Taiwan, and says it has jurisdiction over the strait. Taiwan and the United States dispute that, saying the Taiwan Strait is an international ...