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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]
Vietnam stretches along the coast of the South China Sea, with the northernmost point being more than 1,650 km from the southernmost. [1] Most extreme points are not in dispute with any other countries; only one extreme point, Tennent Reef, is disputed by China, Taiwan, and the Philippines as a part of the Spratly Islands dispute (though ...
According to the Phlippines, the map shows 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 which shows sovereignty over the said territories.
The atoll lies some 300 km (190 mi) north-west of Kota Kinabalu, Sabah.It is about 7 km long and 2 km wide with a central lagoon. The part of the atoll above sea level is a reef on the south-east rim which had an original land area of 6.2 hectares (15 acres), which with subsequent reclaimation now covers 35 ha (86 acres), [4] measuring over 1.5 km (0.93 mi) long and 200 m (660 ft) wide.
The International Portal of Taiping Island (Taiping Island – The Beautiful and Sustainable Island) Satellite image of Taiping Island by Google Maps; Putative States in the Spratly Archipelago "Ecological Resources". Discovering the South China Sea. vm.nthu.edu.tw. Archived from the original on 2005-11-24. "Itu Aba Island".
China appears to be constructing a runway on a disputed island in the South China Sea, which has also been claimed by Vietnam and Taiwan.. According to satellite images, a new airstrip appeared in ...
Landsat 7 image of North Danger Reef (2000) (clouds) Nautical chart of North Danger Reef (1911). Northeast Cay, also known as Parola Island (Filipino: Pulo ng Parola, lit. 'Island of [the] Lighthouse'; Mandarin Chinese: 北子島/北子岛; pinyin: Běizǐ Dǎo; Vietnamese: Đảo Song Tử Đông), with a land area of 12.7 hectares (31 acres), is the fifth largest of the naturally occurring ...
Vietnam has been ramping up its dredging and landfill work in the Spratly Islands in the South China Sea, creating another 330 acres of land since December last year, a U.S. think tank said in a ...