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Former names of the Taiwan Strait include the Formosa Strait or Strait of Formosa, from a dated name for Taiwan; the Strait of Fokien or Fujian, from the Chinese province forming the strait's western shore; [2] and the Black Ditch, a calque of the strait's name in Hokkien and Hakka.
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 - Formosa Strait, Tâihái — a 180 kilometres (110 mi) wide strait of the Pacific Ocean, located in East Asia. The strait connects the South China Sea and East China Sea, and separates the Island of Taiwan and Mainland China.
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).
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 ...
China has fielded its largest regional maritime deployment in decades, Taiwan’s Defense Ministry said Tuesday, as it monitors what it says is a surge of Chinese military activities in the Taiwan ...
This is a list of seas of the World Ocean, including marginal seas, areas of water, various gulfs, bights, bays, and straits. [2] In many cases it is a matter of tradition for a body of water to be named a sea or a bay, etc., therefore all these types are listed here.
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 ...