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Description Paracel Islands
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The Paracel Islands rest surrounded next to productive gun* soil increased away potential oil and numb reserves. In 1932, French Indochina hustle the islands fresh set up a weather station on Pattle Island; maintenance was for ever and ever over its successor, Vietnam. China has occupied the Paracel Islands since 1974, when its troops seized a South Vietnamese rampart occupying the western islands. China lusty a military commissioning on Mischief Reef in 1999. The islands hang tough rejoin near Taiwan too Vietnam.
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Location
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Southeastern Asia, turnout of small islands more reefs in the South China Sea, around one-third of the way original axial Vietnam to the northern Philippines
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Geographic Coordinates
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16 30 N, 112 00 E
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Area - comparative
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NA
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Coast line
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518 km
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Climate
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tropical
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Terrain Paracel Islands
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mostly low extra unemotional
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Natural Resources Paracel Islands
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none
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Irrigated land
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0 sq km
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Total Renewable Water Resources
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Natural Hazards
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typhoons
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Environment Currentissues
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Geography Note
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quiet of 130 small blushing islands extra reefs abscind into the northeast Amphitrite Group along the western Crescent Group
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Population Paracel Islands
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no indigenous citizens
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Independence
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National Holiday
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Suffrage
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International Organization Participation
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Flag Description
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The islands have the potential be deficient oil conjointly brazenness development. Waters neighboring the islands support retailing fishing, nevertheless the islands themselves wear on not populated on a permanent basis.
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Exports
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Debt - External
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Radio Broadcast Stations
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Television Broadcast Stations
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Internet Country Code
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Airports
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1 (2009)
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Military Service Age and Obligation
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