"Zhongsha" meaning in English

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          "ref": "1990 August, Paul K.I. Chao, The Changing Geography of China: A Synoptic View, Hong Kong: The Commercial Press, →OCLC, page 120",
          "text": "3. Zhongsha Island. There are many sandbanks scattered far and wide on Zhongsha Island; they start in the south at latitude 15°24’N and terminate at latitude 16°15’N; in the west they start at longitude 113°40’E and terminate at longitude 114°47’E. Many coral reefs are submerged, some 10-20 m deep. Although the Zhongsha Island is submerged at present, it may come to the surface in a few years’ time and become a proper island and shoal, for the coral is rising with formidable rapidity, sometimes by one metre a year.",
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          "ref": "[2009 February 6, “TAIWAN NEWS QUICK TAKE”, in Taipei Times, sourced from CNA, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2009-02-09, Taiwan News, page 4",
          "text": "The ministry said Taiwan’s sovereignty claim was beyond doubt and challenge, stressing that all four groups of islands in the South China Sea — the Nansha, Jhongsha, Dongsha (Pratas) and Sisha (Paracel) — and their surrounding waters were Taiwan’s territories from a historical, geographical, factual and international law perspective.]",
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          "ref": "2011, “Geography”, in The Republic of China Yearbook 2011, New Taipei: Government Information Office, →OCLC, pages 24–25",
          "text": "In addition, the ROC maintains a historical claim to four groups of islands scattered over a vast area in the South China Sea that is surrounded by rich fishing grounds and gas and oil deposits. These are the Dongsha (Pratas) Islands 東沙群島, the Nansha (Spratly) Islands 南沙群島, the Xisha (Paracel) Islands 西沙群島, and the Zhongsha Islands (Macclesfield Bank) 中沙群島.",
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          "text": "(b) China’s Position on the Status of Scarborough Shoal\n459. China claims sovereignty over Scarborough Shoal, which in China is known as “Huangyan Dao” and treated as part of the Zhongsha Islands.⁵⁰⁰\n460. In China’s 1958 Declaration of the Government of the People’s Republic of China on China’sTerritorial Sea, China declared a twelve mile nautical sea from “all territories . . . including . . .the Zhongsha Islands.”⁵⁰¹ China’s 1992 Law on the Territorial Sea and the Contiguous Zone also included the Zhongsha Islands in China’s territorial land which generated a 12-nautical mile territorial sea.⁵⁰²",
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          "text": "(b) China’s Position on the Status of Scarborough Shoal\n459. China claims sovereignty over Scarborough Shoal, which in China is known as “Huangyan Dao” and treated as part of the Zhongsha Islands.⁵⁰⁰\n460. In China’s 1958 Declaration of the Government of the People’s Republic of China on China’sTerritorial Sea, China declared a twelve mile nautical sea from “all territories . . . including . . .the Zhongsha Islands.”⁵⁰¹ China’s 1992 Law on the Territorial Sea and the Contiguous Zone also included the Zhongsha Islands in China’s territorial land which generated a 12-nautical mile territorial sea.⁵⁰²",
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