List of islands in the South China Sea

Islands in the South China Sea includes the South China Sea Islands (Spratly Islands, Pratas Island, Paracel Islands and Macclesfield Bank), islands on the China coast, on the Vietnam coast, on the Borneo coast, and the peripheral islands of Taiwan, the Philippines, etc.

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South China Sea Islands

Pratas Island

Administered as part of Cijin District, Kaohsiung City, Taiwan, Republic of China

Disputed islands

Paracel Islands

The Paracel Islands are occupied by the People's Republic of China (PRC), and claimed by the PRC, the ROC (Taiwan), and Vietnam.

Amphitrite Group	Crescent Group	Ungrouped
Rocky Island Tree Island West Sand Woody Island	Duncan Island Money Island Pattle Island Robert Island Yagong Island	Bombay Reef Triton Island

Spratly Islands

The Spratly Islands were, in 1939, fourteen coral islets mostly inhabited by countless seabirds.^[1] According to a Chinese 1986 source, the Spratly Islands consist of 14 islands or islets, 6 banks, 113 submerged reefs, 35 underwater banks, 21 underwater shoals.^[2] For some reason, neither of these mention the 11th largest naturally occurring island located on the Swallow Reef atoll, occupied by Malaysia. The islands are all of a similar nature; they are cays (or keys) – sand islands formed on old degraded and submerged coral reefs.^[1]

Taiwan (ROC)	Philippines	Vietnam	Malaysia
Taiping Island / Itu Aba	Flat Island Lankiam Cay Loaita Island Nanshan Island Northeast Cay Thitu Island West York Island	Amboyna Cay Namyit Island Sin Cowe Island Sin Cowe East Island Spratly Island Sand Cay Southwest Cay	Swallow Reef

Reefs and artificial islands

Note that, according PRC, in the Spratly Islands area, the definition of "island" is applied very liberally to reefs and artificial islands. There are in fact only about a dozen islands with an area greater than 1 hectare.^[3]

Taiwan (ROC)	China (PRC)	Philippines	Vietnam	Malaysia	Brunei
Zhongzhou Reef	Cuarteron Reef Fiery Cross Reef Gaven Reefs Hughes Reef Johnson South Reef Mischief Reef Subi Reef	Commodore Reef Half Moon Shoal Irving Reef Second Thomas Shoal	Bombay Castle Collins Reef Cornwallis South Reef Ladd Reef West London Reef	Ardasier Reef Dallas Reef Erica Reef Investigator Shoal Luconia Shoals Mariveles Reef Swallow Reef	Louisa Reef

Scarborough Shoal

Macclesfield Bank

There are no islands, nor any land above sea-level, in the Macclesfield Bank.

In conjunction with the Scarborough Shoal, which also contains no islands, the PRC refer to the combined area as the Zhongsha Islands, even though it contains no islands.

Islands on the southern coast of China

Islands of Hainan

Hainan
Qizhou Liedao

Islands of Guangxi

Weizhou and Xieyang Islands

Islands of Guangdong

Islands of Macau

Ilha Verde is connected to the Macao Peninsula as a result of land reclamation. Ilha de Coloane and Ilha da Taipa are connected to each other also as a result of land reclamation.