South China Sea

a tropical arm of the Pacific Ocean near southeastern Asia subject to frequent typhoons

• sea — a division of an ocean or a large body of salt water partially enclosed by land

• Taiwan, Formosa — an island in southeastern Asia 100 miles off the coast of mainland China in the South China Sea
• Taiwan, China, Nationalist China, Republic of China — a government on the island of Taiwan established in 1949 by Chiang Kai-shek after the conquest of mainland China by the communists led by Mao Zedong
• Singapore — an island south of the Malay Peninsula
• Gulf of Thailand, Gulf of Siam — an arm of the South China Sea between Indochina and the Malay Peninsula

• Pacific, Pacific Ocean — the largest ocean in the world