Brunei China Indonesia Malaysia Philippines Taiwan Vietnam
Surface area
3,500,000 square kilometres (1,400,000 sq mi)
Islands
List of islands in South China Sea
Trenches
Manila Trench
Settlements
Major cities
Alaminos
Bà Rịa
Bạc Liêu
Bacoor
Balanga
Bintulu
Cẩm Phả
Cam Ranh
Candon
Cavite City
Da Nang
Dagupan
Đồng Hới
Hạ Long
Hà Tĩnh
Haikou
Haiphong
Ho Chi Minh City
Hội An
Hong Kong
Kaohsiung
Kota Kinabalu
Kuala Terengganu
Kuantan
Kuching
Laoag
Las Piñas
Macau
Malolos
Manila
Mersing
Miri
Móng Cái
Nakhon Si Thammarat
Nam Định
Nanwan
Navotas
Nha Trang
Olongapo
Parañaque
Pasay
Pattaya
Pekan
Phan Rang–Tháp Chàm
Phan Thiết
Quảng Ngãi
Qui Nhơn
Sầm Sơn
San Fernando
Sanya
Shantou
Sihanoukville
Sóc Trăng
Surat Thani
Taitung
Tainan
Tam Kỳ
Thái Bình
Thanh Hóa
Vigan
Tuy Hòa
Vũng Tàu
Xiamen
Zhanjiang
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 the Indonesian islands of Borneo, eastern Sumatra and the Bangka Belitung Islands, encompassing an area of around 3,500,000 km2 (1,400,000 sq mi). It communicates with the East China Sea via the Taiwan Strait, the Philippine Sea via the Luzon Strait, the Sulu Sea via the straits around Palawan, and the Java Sea via the Karimata and Bangka Straits. The Gulf of Thailand and the Gulf of Tonkin are part of the South China Sea.
$3.4 trillion of the world's $16 trillion maritime shipping passed through South China Sea in 2016. Oil and natural gas reserves have been found in the area. The Western Central Pacific accounted for 14% of world's commercial fishing in 2010.
The South China Sea Islands, collectively comprising several archipelago clusters of mostly small uninhabited islands, islets (cays and shoals), reefs/atolls and seamounts numbering in the hundreds, are subject to competing claims of sovereignty by several countries. These claims are also reflected in the variety of names used for the islands and the sea.
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