{"id":24605,"date":"2024-06-30T12:39:56","date_gmt":"2024-06-30T07:09:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=24605"},"modified":"2025-04-07T10:44:29","modified_gmt":"2025-04-07T05:14:29","slug":"facts-about-south-china-sea","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/facts-about-south-china-sea\/","title":{"rendered":"Facts about South China Sea"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>About South China Sea:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>It is an <strong>arm of the western Pacific Ocean<\/strong> that <strong>borders the Southeast Asian<\/strong> mainland.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>It embraces an area of about 1,423,000 square miles (3,685,000 square km), with a mean depth of 3,976 feet (1,212 metres).<\/li>\n<li><strong>Boundaries:<\/strong>\n<ul>\n<li>It is bordered by <strong>China, Taiwan, Philippines, Malaysia, Indonesia, Brunei<\/strong>, and <strong>Vietnam<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li>The <strong>southern boundary <\/strong>of the South China Sea is a <strong>rise in the seabed between Sumatra and Borneo<\/strong>, and the <strong>northern boundary stretches from<\/strong> the northernmost point of <strong>Taiwan to <\/strong>the coast of <strong>Fujian province, China, in the Taiwan Strait.<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>It is <strong>connected by the Taiwan Strait with the East China Sea<\/strong> and <strong>by the Luzon Strait with the Philippine Sea<\/strong> (both marginal seas of the Pacific Ocean).<\/li>\n<li>The <strong>South China Sea and<\/strong> the <strong>East China Sea together<\/strong> form the <strong>China Sea<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li>The two <strong>major archipelagos<\/strong> are known as the <strong>Paracel Islands<\/strong>, <strong>controlled by China<\/strong>, and <strong>the Spratly Islands.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Climate<\/strong>: The weather in the sea is <strong>tropical and <\/strong>largely <strong>controlled by monsoons.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>It is the <strong>second most used sea lane in the world<\/strong>. It is a significant <strong>trade route for crude oil<\/strong> from the Persian Gulf and Africa through the Strait of Malacca to Singapore, Thailand, Hong Kong, Taiwan, South Korea, and Japan.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li><strong>Major Ports<\/strong>: <strong>Hong Kong, Singapore, and Kaohsiung<\/strong> in southern Taiwan.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<hr \/>\n<h3><strong>Q1<\/strong>: What is the Taiwan Strait?<\/h3>\n<p>Taiwan Strait, also called Formosa Strait, is a 180-kilometre-wide strait separating the island of Taiwan and continental Asia. The strait extends from southwest to northeast between the South and East China seas. The narrowest part is 130 km wide. It reaches a depth of about 230 feet (70 m) and contains the Pescadores Islands (which are controlled by the government of Taiwan). The chief ports are Amoy in mainland China and Kao-hsiung in Taiwan.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source: <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/indianexpress.com\/article\/india\/oppose-unilateral-actions-change-status-quo-force-india-fresh-tensions-south-china-sea-9421529\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><u>We oppose unilateral actions to change status quo by force: India on fresh tensions in South China Sea<\/u><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>South China Sea is an arm of the western Pacific Ocean that borders the Southeast Asian mainland. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":24606,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-24605","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","8":"no-featured-image-padding"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24605","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24605"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24605\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24606"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24605"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24605"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24605"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}