Sansha

Local name三沙市
LocationChina

Sansha City is a prefecture-level city under the Hainan province of the People's Republic of China, and is the southernmost and least populated prefecture in China, with the smallest land area but the largest maritime territory. The city's seat is located on Yongxing Island in the South China Sea, and administers several island groups, atolls, seamounts and a number of other ungrouped maritime features within the nine-dash line, although the PRC's de facto control over the area varies. The name "Sansha", literally meaning "three sands", refers to the three archipelago districts of Xisha, Zhongsha and Nansha.

Sansha was created on 24 July 2012, and administers a group of 260 islands, reefs and beaches located in the Spratly Islands, Paracel Islands, and Macclesfield Bank. Reports in the China Daily stated that the establishment of Sansha was simply an upgrade of its administrative status from the previous county-level administration to prefecture-level.

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Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sansha

Coordinates 16°49'57.723" N 112°20'1.219" E

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