Macclesfield Bank in the context of "Nine-dash line"

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👉 Macclesfield Bank in the context of Nine-dash line

The nine-dash line, also referred to as the eleven-dash line by Taiwan, is a set of line segments on various maps that accompanied the claims of the People's Republic of China (PRC, "Mainland China") and the Republic of China (ROC, "Taiwan") in the South China Sea.

The contested area includes the Paracel Islands, the Spratly Islands, the Pratas Island and the Vereker Banks, the Macclesfield Bank, and the Scarborough Shoal. Certain places have undergone land reclamation by the PRC, ROC, and Vietnam. The People's Daily of the PRC uses the term Duànxùxiàn (Tuan-hsü-hsien; 断续线) or Nánhǎi Duànxùxiàn (Nan-hai tuan-hsü-hsien; 南海断续线; lit. 'South Sea intermittent line'), while the ROC government uses the term Shíyīduàn xiàn (Shih-i-tuan hsien; 十一段線; lit. 'eleven-segment line').

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Macclesfield Bank in the context of Zhongsha Islands

The Zhongsha Islands is a Chinese term for a collection of two skerries, many entirely submerged banks, seamounts, and shoals in the South China Sea. There are no islands in the Macclesfield Bank, the main part of Zhongsha. The Scarborough Shoal, which consists of two skerries, is not contiguous with the Macclesfield Bank, but Chinese sources treat them as one chain of geographical features. The whole of the region is claimed by both the PRC and the ROC, and various bits of the eastern parts are claimed by the Philippines. No country has constant control of the whole region, and there are disputes, such as the Scarborough Shoal standoff.

The PRC claims to administer the area as Zhongsha Daojiao Town (Chinese: 中沙岛礁镇; pinyin: Zhōngshā Dǎojiāo Zhèn), a town under the Xisha District of the Sansha prefecture-level city in Hainan. It has one Village-level division, Zhongsha Daojiao Residential Community. However, the seat of this town and residential community is not within the Zhongsha Islets, but on Woody Island.

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