South China Sea

South China Sea

An arm of the western Pacific Ocean bounded by southeast China, Taiwan, the Philippines, Borneo, and Vietnam.

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South China Sea

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(Placename) part of the Pacific surrounded by SE China, Vietnam, the Malay Peninsula, Borneo, and the Philippines

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South China Sea - a tropical arm of the Pacific Ocean near southeastern Asia subject to frequent typhoons Formosa, Taiwan - an island in southeastern Asia 100 miles off the coast of mainland China in the South China Sea Nationalist China, Republic of China, Taiwan, China - a government on the island of Taiwan established in 1949 by Chiang Kai-shek after the conquest of mainland China by the Communists led by Mao Zedong Singapore Island, Singapore - an island to the south of the Malay Peninsula Gulf of Siam, Gulf of Thailand - an arm of the South China Sea between Indochina and the Malay Peninsula Pacific, Pacific Ocean - the largest ocean in the world