Topic - Paracel Islands
Subscribe to this topic via RSS or ATOMThe Paracel Islands consist of over 30 islets, sandbanks or reefs, occupy about 15,000 km2 of the ocean surface, and located in the South China Sea. Turtles live on the islands, and seabirds have left nests and guano deposits, but there are no permanent human residents except for a small number of troops. The archipelago is approximately equidistant from the coastlines of Vietnam and China, and about one-third of the way from central Vietnam to the northern Philippines. - Source: Wikipedia
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Vietnam, for at least a decade, has been locked in a maritime dispute with China over the Paracel Islands which both nations claim as their territory.
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