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The East China Sea. Islands in the East China Sea include: Matsu Islands (29.61 km²) Beigan (Peikan) Gaodeng Island (Kaoteng Island) Daqiu Island ( 大坵) Liang Island (Lang Tao) Xiaoqiu (Kiao Tse 小坵) Wumingdao / Bluff Head ( 無名島)
The Senkaku Islands [a], also known as the Pinnacle Islands or the Diaoyu Islands [b] in China and as the Tiaoyutai Islands [c] in Taiwan, are a group of uninhabited islands in the East China Sea, administered by Japan . The islands are located northeast of Taiwan, east of China, west of Okinawa Island, and north of the southwestern end of the ...
The East China Sea is an arm of the Pacific Ocean and covers an area of roughly 770,000 square kilometers (300,000 sq mi). [3] It is bounded on the east by Kyūshū and the Ryukyu Islands of Japan, on the south by the South China Sea, and on the west by the Asian continent. It connects with the Sea of Japan through the Korea Strait; it opens in ...
The Senkaku Islands dispute, or Diaoyu Islands dispute, is a territorial dispute over a group of uninhabited islands known as the Senkaku Islands in Japan, the Diaoyu Islands in China, [1] and Tiaoyutai Islands in Taiwan. [2] Aside from a 1945 to 1972 period of administration by the United States as part of the Ryukyu Islands, the archipelago ...
He later visited another Japanese island Ishigaki, home to Japan Coast Guard patrol boats defending the disputed East China Sea island s and Japanese fishermen from armed Chinese coast guard ships ...
About 40,000 square kilometres (15,000 square miles) of EEZ are in dispute. China and Japan both claim 200 nautical miles (370 km; 230 mi) of EEZ rights, but the East China Sea width is only 360 nautical miles (670 km; 410 mi). China claims an EEZ extending to the eastern end of the Chinese continental shelf (based on UNCLOS III) which goes ...
Liang Island (Larne Island) (Chinese: 亮 島; pinyin: Liàng Dǎo; Wade–Giles: Liang 4 Tao 3; lit. 'island that illuminates'; Foochow Romanized: Liông-dō̤, originally 橫山, Lang Tao 浪島) is an island located in the East China Sea in Beigan Township, Lienchiang County (the Matsu Islands), Fujian Province, Republic of China (Taiwan).
This category contains articles and subcategories pertaining to islands geographically located within the East China Sea, regardless of their political status. Wikimedia Commons has media related to Islands of the East China Sea .