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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 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).
Fixed map, political divisions have changed: 16:54, 3 June 2011: 1,016 × 1,221 (127 KB) NordNordWest: please don't change the political status shown in this map: 13:19, 3 June 2011: 1,016 × 1,222 (156 KB) Energiya: Fix the border of Matsu(Dongyin) and Kinmen (Dadan, Erdan, Wuqiu) see the page of Matsu Island and Kinmen. 17:19, 28 December 2010
Reverted to version as of 19:34, 26 April 2011 There's no such thing as a wiki convention. There's only the location map scheme which isn't greenish: 08:43, 14 June 2015: 897 × 897 (463 KB) 李4: change the color to dark green as per wiki convention. 19:34, 26 April 2011: 897 × 897 (461 KB) TUBS
The latest map was of a broader geographical area and had a line with 10 dashes that included democratically governed Taiwan, similar to a 1948 map of China. China also published a map with a 10th ...
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).
Malaysia, the Philippines & Indonesia protest - directly & indirectly - the newly published CN "standard map”, which includes the 10-dash line (9-dash line plus another near Taiwan) around the #SCS.
The White House was concerned that differentiating Taiwan and China on a map in a U.S.-hosted conference - to which Taiwan had been invited in a show of support at a time when it is under intense ...