Introduction:
South China Sea is the abbreviation of South China Sea (geographical waters) and South China Sea of China (territorial waters of China), which is located in the south of Chinese mainland and one of the three marginal seas in China. The waters within the Jiu Duan Line are China's territorial waters, with a natural sea area of about 3.5 million square kilometers, and the total area of China's territorial waters is about 26.5438 million square kilometers. The South China Sea is about 2000 kilometers long from north to south and 1000 kilometers wide from east to west. It starts from the connecting line between Nan 'ao Island and the southern tip of Taiwan Province Island in the north, reaches kalimantan island and Sumatra Island in the south, Chinese mainland, Indo-China Peninsula and Malay Peninsula in the west, and reaches the Philippines in the east, and is connected with the East Pacific Ocean and the West Indian Ocean through straits or waterways. It is a semi-closed sea with northeast-southwest trend.
Geographical location:
The South China Sea borders Chinese mainland and Taiwan Province Province in the north, the Philippine Islands in the east, kalimantan island and Sumatra in the south, Indochina Peninsula and Malay Peninsula in the west. The northeastern part of the South China Sea communicates with the Pacific Ocean through many straits and waterways, such as bashi channel and Balintang Strait. The southeast is connected with the Sulu Sea through Mindoro Strait and Barabak Strait, the south is adjacent to the Java Sea through Karimata Strait and Gaspar Strait, and the southwest is connected with the Indian Ocean through Malacca Strait. From the East China Sea to the south, you cross the narrow Taiwan Province Strait and enter the South China Sea.