Paracel Islands

Enlarge text Shrink text
  • Place
| System number 987007563167705171

Information for Authority record

Name (Hebrew)
איי פאראסל
Name (Latin)
Paracel Islands
Other forms of name
Dao Hoang Sa
Dao Tay Sa
Hoàng Sa
Hsi-sha Islands
Les Paracels
Paracels
Parachel
Quần Đảo Hoàng Sa
Sisha Islands
Xisha Islands
Xisha Qundao
Coordinates
112.747192 112.747192 16.654612 16.654612 (gooearth )
See Also From tracing place name
Islands of the South China Sea
MARC
MARC

Other Identifiers

Wikidata: Q274388
Library of congress: sh 85097727
Sources of Information
  • GEOnet, Mar. 15, 2002(Paracel Islands, isls, 16⁰30ʹ00ʺN 112⁰15ʹ00ʺE, variants: Xisha Qundao, Tay Sa, Dao, Sisha Islands, Parachel, Paracels, Les Paracels, Hsi-sha Islands, Hoang Sa, Dao, Hoang Sa, Quan Dao)
  • Merriam-Web. geog.(Paracel Islands, Xisha Qundao (Chin.), Quan Dao Hoang Sa (Viet), Hirata Gunto (Jpn), controlled by French Indochina before WWII, occupied by Hapanese 1939, subsequently claimed by China and Vietnam)
  • Col. gaz.(Paracel islands, Xisha Qundao (Chin.) also called Xisha Islands)
  • LC database, Aug. 25, 1997(Paracels)