Islands in the South China Sea includes the South China Sea Islands (Spratly Islands, Pratas Island, Paracel Islands and Macclesfield Bank), islands on the China coast, on the Vietnam coast, on the Borneo coast, and the peripheral islands of Taiwan, the Philippines, etc. South China Sea Islands Pratas Island Administered as part of Cijin District, Kaohsiung City, Taiwan, Republic of China Disputed islands Paracel Islands The Paracel Islands are occupied by the People's Republic of China (PRC), and claimed by the PRC, the ROC (Taiwan), and Vietnam. Spratly Islands The Spratly Islands were, in 1939, fourteen coral islets mostly inhabited by countless seabirds. According to a Chinese 1986 source, the Spratly Islands consist of 14 islands or islets, 6 banks, 113 submerged reefs, 35 underwater banks, 21 underwater shoals. For some reason, neither of these mention the 11th largest naturally occurring island located on the Swallow Reef atoll, occupied by Malaysia. The islands are all of a similar nature; they are cays (or keys) – sand islands formed on old degraded and submerged coral reefs. Reefs and artificial islands Note that, according PRC, in the Spratly Islands area, the definition of "island" is applied very liberally to reefs and artificial islands. There are in fact only about a dozen islands with an area greater than 1 hectare. Scarborough Shoal Macclesfield Bank There are no islands, nor any land above sea-level, in the Macclesfield Bank. In conjunction with the Scarborough Shoal, which also contains no islands, the PRC refer to the combined area as the Zhongsha Islands, even though it contains no islands. Islands on the southern coast of China Islands of Hainan Hainan Qizhou Liedao Islands of Guangxi Weizhou and Xieyang Islands Islands of Guangdong Xiachuan Island Shangchuan Island Hengqin Wanshan Archipelago Nan'ao Islands of Macau Ilha Verde is connected to the Macao Peninsula as a result of land reclamation. Ilha de Coloane and Ilha da Taipa are connected to each other also as a result of land reclamation. Ilha Verde Ilha de Coloane Ilha da Taipa Islands of Hong Kong See Islands and Peninsulas of Hong Kong for a full list. Lantau Hong Kong Island Po Toi Islands Cheung Chau Islands in the Taiwan Strait Xiamen (Amoy) (Fujian Province, PRC) Kinmen (Quemoy) (Fuchien Province, Republic of China (Taiwan)) Lieyu/Lesser Kinmen Dongding Island Beiding Island Fuxing Islet Menghu Islet Wuqiu/Daqiu (ROC (Taiwan)) Xiaoqiu (ROC (Taiwan)) Luci Island (Xiuyu, Putian, Fujian,