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Macclesfield Bank or Zhongsha Islands (Chinese

Chinese language

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???? Pinyin

Pinyin

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: Zhongsha Qundao; , literally Central Sand Islands) is an elongated sunken atoll

Atoll

An atoll is an island of coral that encircles a lagoon partially or completely....
of underwater reefs and shoals in South China Sea

South China Sea

The South China Sea is a marginal sea*south of China,*west of the Philippines,*north west of Sabah , Sarawak and Brunei,*north of Indonesia,...
and part of the disputed South China Sea Islands

South China Sea Islands

The South China Sea Islands consist of over 250 around 1-km? islands, atolls, cays, shoals, reefs, and sandbars in the South China Sea, most of which have no indigenous people, many of which are naturally under water at high tide, some of which are permanently submerged....
, centered around , east of the Paracel Islands

Paracel Islands

The Paracel Islands are a group of small islands and reefs in the South China Sea administered by the People's Republic of China but also claimed by Vietnam....
. Its length exceeds 130 km southwest-northeast, with a maximal width of more than 70 km. With an area of 6448 km² within the outer rim of the reef[ftp://rock.geosociety.org/pub/reposit/2001/2001075.pdf], although completely submerged without any emergent cays or islets, it is one of the largest atolls of the world.

The broken coral reef rim of Macclesfield Bank, with a width of up to 8 km, has depths of 11.8 m at Pygmy Shoal on the northeast end of the bank and depths of 11.6 to 18 m elsewhere.

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Macclesfield Bank or Zhongsha Islands (Chinese

Chinese language

Pinyin

Atoll

An atoll is an island of coral that encircles a lagoon partially or completely....
of underwater reefs and shoals in South China Sea

South China Sea

The South China Sea is a marginal sea*south of China,*west of the Philippines,*north west of Sabah , Sarawak and Brunei,*north of Indonesia,...
and part of the disputed South China Sea Islands

South China Sea Islands

Paracel Islands

People's Republic of China

The People's Republic of China , commonly known as China, is the largest country in East Asia and the List of countries by population in the world with over 1.3 billion people, approximately a fifth of the world's population....
, Republic of China

Republic of China

The Republic of China , also known as Nationalist China is a country in East Asia that has evolved from a single-party state with full global recognition into a multi-party democratic state with Political status of Taiwan....
(Taiwan

Taiwan

Taiwan is an island in East Asia. "Taiwan" is also commonly used to refer to the country governed by the Republic of China and to the ROC itself, which governs the island of Taiwan, Orchid Island and Green Island, Taiwan in the Pacific Ocean off the Taiwan coast, the Penghu islands in the Taiwan Strait, and Kinmen and the Matsu Islands...
) and Philippines

Philippines

The Philippines, officially known as the Republic of the Philippines, is a country in Southeast Asia with Manila as its capital city. It comprises 7,107 islands in the western Pacific Ocean....
. It is located east of the Paracel Islands

Paracel Islands

The Paracel Islands are a group of small islands and reefs in the South China Sea administered by the People's Republic of China but also claimed by Vietnam....
, distantly southwest of the Pratas Islands

Pratas Islands

The Pratas Islands or Dongsha Islands consists of three islands located in northeastern South China Sea, 340 km southeast of Hong Kong....
and north of the Spratly Islands

Spratly Islands

The Spratly Islands are a group of more than 650 reefs, islets, atolls, cays and islands in the South China Sea between the Philippines and Vietnam....
.

There are no military stations there. It is a rich fishing ground and difficult to navigate due to the shallow submerged reefs.

The elongated atoll consists of:

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Siamese Shoal	Simen Ansha	????
Bankok Shoal	Bengu Ansha	????
Magpie Shoal	Meibin Ansha	????
Carpenter Shoal	Luban Ansha	????
Oliver Shoal	Lifu Ansha	????
Pigmy (Pygmy) Shoal	Biwei Ansha	????
Engeria (Egeria) Bank	Yinji Ansha	???
Howard Shoal	Wuyong Ansha	????
Learmonth Shoal	Jimeng Ansha	????
Plover Shoal	Haijiu Ansha	????
Addington Patch	Anding Lianjiao	????
Smith Shoal	Meisi Ansha	????
Bassett Shoal	Bude Ansha	????
Balfour Shoal	Pofu Ansha	???? or ????
Parry Shoal	Paipo Ansha	????
Cawston Shoal	Guodian Ansha	????
Penguin Bank	Paihong Ansha	???
Tanered Shoal	Taojing Ansha	????
Combe Shoal	Kongpai Ansha	????
Cathy (Cathay) Shoal	Huaxia Ansha	????
Hardy Patches	Shitanglian Lianjiao	????
Hand Shoal	Zhizhang Ansha	????
Margesson Shoal	Nanfei Ansha	????
Walker Shoal	Manbu Ansha	????
Phillip's Shoal	Lexi Ansha	????
Payne Shoal	Pingnan Ansha	????

The Chinese term for the Macclesfield Bank has a wider meaning than the geographic feature or atoll; it includes some geographically separate features:

To the east, near the Philippines

Philippines

Scarborough Shoal
Scarborough Shoal

Scarborough Shoal or Huangyan Dao , more correctly described as a group of islands and reefs in an atoll shape than a shoal, is located between the Macclesfield Bank and Luzon, Philippines in the South China Sea, specifically Luzon Sea....
(Panatag Shoal), (Nanyan Dao, Huangyan Dao), ???, ???, ), is occupied by the Philippines
Philippines

The Philippines, officially known as the Republic of the Philippines, is a country in Southeast Asia with Manila as its capital city. It comprises 7,107 islands in the western Pacific Ocean....
Truro Shoal (Sianfa Ansha, Shianfa Ansha, ????, )

Far to the north is

Helen Shoal (Itung Ansha, Yitong Ansha, ????, ) is only a few kilometers south of Hong Kong
Hong Kong

Hong Kong , officially the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, is a territory located in Southern China in East Asia, bordering the province of Guangdong to the north and facing the South China Sea to the east, west and south....

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