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63 relations: Atoll, Biogeochemistry, Biology, China, Chinese language, Chinese people, Coast Guard Administration (Taiwan), Colonial Office, County-level city, Cuthbert Collingwood (naturalist), Democratic Progressive Party, District (Taiwan), Dongsha Airport, Dongsha Atoll National Park, DX Century Club, East Indiaman, English language, Fiery Cross Reef, Guan Yu, Guangdong, Guano, Hong Kong, Islands on the air, Japan, Jin dynasty (265–420), Kaohsiung, Kaohsiung City Government, Lagoon, Lee Chiao-ju, List of islands of Taiwan, Lufeng, Guangdong, Mazu, Metres above sea level, National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency, National Sun Yat-sen University, National Tsing Hua University, Oceanography, Paracel Islands, Pinyin, Politics of the Republic of China, Portuguese language, Postal code, Prefecture-level city, Provinces of China, Qijin District, Kaohsiung, Republic of China Armed Forces, Romanization of Chinese, Royal Navy, Screw sloop, Seamount, ..., Shanwei, Simplified Chinese characters, South China Sea, South China Sea Islands, Special municipality (Taiwan), Taipei, Taiping Island, Taiwan, Traditional Chinese characters, United Nations, USS Frank Knox (DD-742), Woody Island (South China Sea), World War II. Expand index (13 more) »
Atoll
An atoll, sometimes called a coral atoll, is a ring-shaped coral reef including a coral rim that encircles a lagoon partially or completely.
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Biogeochemistry
Biogeochemistry is the scientific discipline that involves the study of the chemical, physical, geological, and biological processes and reactions that govern the composition of the natural environment (including the biosphere, the cryosphere, the hydrosphere, the pedosphere, the atmosphere, and the lithosphere).
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Biology
Biology is the natural science that studies life and living organisms, including their physical structure, chemical composition, function, development and evolution.
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China
China, officially the People's Republic of China (PRC), is a unitary one-party sovereign state in East Asia and the world's most populous country, with a population of around /1e9 round 3 billion.
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Chinese language
Chinese is a group of related, but in many cases mutually unintelligible, language varieties, forming a branch of the Sino-Tibetan language family.
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Chinese people
Chinese people are the various individuals or ethnic groups associated with China, usually through ancestry, ethnicity, nationality, citizenship or other affiliation.
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Coast Guard Administration (Taiwan)
The Coast Guard Administration of the Executive Yuan (CGA) is charged with maintaining law and order, protecting the resources of the territorial waters of the Republic of China (Taiwan), which surrounds Taiwan, Penghu, Kinmen, Matsu Islands, Green Island, Orchid Island, Dongsha Islands, and Nansha Islands as well as providing a first line of defense along coastal areas against smugglers and illegal immigrants.
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Colonial Office
The Colonial Office was a government department of the Kingdom of Great Britain and later of the United Kingdom, first created to deal with the colonial affairs of British North America but needed also to oversee the increasing number of colonies of the British Empire.
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County-level city
A county-level municipality, county-level city, or county city is a county-level administrative division of mainland China.
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Cuthbert Collingwood (naturalist)
Cuthbert Collingwood (1826–1908) was an English naturalist, surgeon and physician.
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Democratic Progressive Party
The Democratic Progressive Party (DPP), also known as Minjindang (MJD) is a liberal political party in the Taiwan and the dominant party in the Pan-Green Coalition as it is currently the majority ruling party, controlling both the presidency and the unicameral Legislative Yuan.
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District (Taiwan)
Districts are administrative subdivisions of Special municipalities and provincial cities of Taiwan.
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Dongsha Airport
Dongsha Airport is located on Dongsha Island (Pratas Island) in Qijin District of Kaohsiung, Taiwan.
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Dongsha Atoll National Park
The Dongsha Atoll National Park is the seventh national park of the Republic of China (Taiwan), managed by the Ministry of the Interior.
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DX Century Club
The DX Century Club, or DXCC, is an amateur radio operating award earned by making contacts with licensed amateur operators in at least 100 "countries" (i.e. geographic locations listed in the rules for the award) around the world, many of which are physically distant from the claimant (i.e.DX).
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East Indiaman
East Indiaman was a general name for any sailing ship operating under charter or licence to any of the East India Companies of the major European trading powers of the 17th through the 19th centuries.
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English language
English is a West Germanic language that was first spoken in early medieval England and is now a global lingua franca.
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Fiery Cross Reef
Fiery Cross Reef, also known as "Northwest Investigator Reef", "Yongshu Reef" (永暑礁) by the Chinese, "Kagitingan Reef" by the Filipinos, and "Đá Chữ Thập" by the Vietnamese was, prior to large scale reclamation activities by China, a group of three reefs just west of the western edge of Dangerous Ground in the Spratly Islands of the South China Sea.
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Guan Yu
Guan Yu (died January or February 220), courtesy name Yunchang, was a general serving under the warlord Liu Bei in the late Eastern Han dynasty.
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Guangdong
Guangdong is a province in South China, located on the South China Sea coast.
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Guano
Guano (from Quechua wanu via Spanish) is the accumulated excrement of seabirds and bats.
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Hong Kong
Hong Kong (Chinese: 香港), officially the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region of the People's Republic of China, is an autonomous territory of China on the eastern side of the Pearl River estuary in East Asia.
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Islands on the air
Islands On The Air (IOTA) is an award program for radio amateurs interested in making contacts with stations located on islands worldwide.
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Japan
Japan (日本; Nippon or Nihon; formally 日本国 or Nihon-koku, lit. "State of Japan") is a sovereign island country in East Asia.
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Jin dynasty (265–420)
The Jin dynasty or the Jin Empire (sometimes distinguished as the or) was a Chinese dynasty traditionally dated from 266 to 420.
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Kaohsiung
Kaohsiung City (Hokkien POJ: Ko-hiông; Hakka: Kô-hiùng; old names: Takao, Takow, Takau) is a special municipality located in southern-western Taiwan and facing the Taiwan Strait.
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Kaohsiung City Government
The Kaohsiung City Government (KCG) is the top-tier local government administrative body of the Republic of China from December 2010 that governs Kaohsiung City.
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Lagoon
A lagoon is a shallow body of water separated from a larger body of water by barrier islands or reefs.
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Lee Chiao-ju
Lee Chiao-ju is a Taiwanese politician.
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List of islands of Taiwan
This is a list of islands of Taiwan, officially the Republic of China (ROC), classified into various island groups.
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Lufeng, Guangdong
Lufeng, formerly romanized as Lukfung, is a county-level city in Guangdong, China, administered as a part of the prefecture-level city of Shanwei.
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Mazu
Mazu, also known by several other names and titles, is a Chinese sea goddess.
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Metres above sea level
Metres above mean sea level (MAMSL) or simply metres above sea level (MASL or m a.s.l.) is a standard metric measurement in metres of the elevation or altitude of a location in reference to a historic mean sea level.
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National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency
The National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA) is both a combat support agency under the United States Department of Defense and an intelligence agency of the United States Intelligence Community, with the primary mission of collecting, analyzing, and distributing geospatial intelligence (GEOINT) in support of national security.
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National Sun Yat-sen University
National Sun Yat-sen University (NSYSU) is a public research-intensive university renowned as a seat of oceanology and management studies, located in Sizihwan, Kaohsiung, Taiwan and Pratas Islands, South China Sea.
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National Tsing Hua University
National Tsing Hua University (NTHU) is a research university located in Hsinchu City, Republic of China (Taiwan).
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Oceanography
Oceanography (compound of the Greek words ὠκεανός meaning "ocean" and γράφω meaning "write"), also known as oceanology, is the study of the physical and biological aspects of the ocean.
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Paracel Islands
The Paracel Islands, also known as Xisha in Chinese and Hoàng Sa in Vietnamese, is a group of islands, reefs, banks and other maritime features in the South China Sea.
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Pinyin
Hanyu Pinyin Romanization, often abbreviated to pinyin, is the official romanization system for Standard Chinese in mainland China and to some extent in Taiwan.
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Politics of the Republic of China
The politics of the Republic of China take place in a framework of a representative democratic republic, whereby the President is head of state and the Premier (Chef of the Executive Yuan) is head of government, and of a multi-party system.
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Portuguese language
Portuguese (português or, in full, língua portuguesa) is a Western Romance language originating from the regions of Galicia and northern Portugal in the 9th century.
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Postal code
A postal code (also known locally in various English-speaking countries throughout the world as a postcode, post code, Eircode, PIN Code or ZIP Code) is a series of letters or digits or both, sometimes including spaces or punctuation, included in a postal address for the purpose of sorting mail.
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Prefecture-level city
A prefectural-level municipality, prefectural-level city or prefectural city; formerly known as province-controlled city from 1949 to 1983, is an administrative division of the People's Republic of China (PRC), ranking below a province and above a county in China's administrative structure.
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Provinces of China
Provincial-level administrative divisions or first-level administrative divisions, are the highest-level Chinese administrative divisions.
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Qijin District, Kaohsiung
Cijin District is a district of Kaohsiung City, Taiwan, covering Cijin Island.
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Republic of China Armed Forces
The Republic of China Armed Forces, also known as the Chinese National Armed Forces (CNAF) or Armed Forces of Taiwan are the armed forces of the Republic of China now on Taiwan, encompassing the Army, Navy (including the Republic of China Marine Corps), Air Force and Military Police Force.
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Romanization of Chinese
The Romanization of Chinese is the use of the Latin alphabet to write Chinese.
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Royal Navy
The Royal Navy (RN) is the United Kingdom's naval warfare force.
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Screw sloop
A screw sloop is a propeller-driven sloop-of-war.
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Seamount
A seamount is a mountain rising from the ocean seafloor that does not reach to the water's surface (sea level), and thus is not an island, islet or cliff-rock.
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Shanwei
Shànwěi, or Swabue, (Ty-sami) is a prefecture-level city in eastern Guangdong province, People's Republic of China.
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Simplified Chinese characters
Simplified Chinese characters are standardized Chinese characters prescribed in the Table of General Standard Chinese Characters for use in mainland China.
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South China Sea
The South China Sea is a marginal sea that is part of the Pacific Ocean, encompassing an area from the Karimata and Malacca Straits to the Strait of Taiwan of around.
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South China Sea Islands
The South China Sea Islands consist of over 250 islands, atolls, cays, shoals, reefs, and sandbars in the South China Sea, none of which have indigenous people, few of which have any natural water supply, many of which are naturally under water at high tide, while others are permanently submerged.
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Special municipality (Taiwan)
A special municipality is an administrative division unit in Taiwan.
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Taipei
Taipei, officially known as Taipei City, is the capital and a special municipality of Taiwan (officially known as the Republic of China, "ROC").
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Taiping Island
Taiping Island, better known internationally as Itu Aba, and also known by various other names, is the largest of the naturally occurring Spratly Islands in the South China Sea.
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Taiwan
Taiwan, officially the Republic of China (ROC), is a state in East Asia.
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Traditional Chinese characters
Traditional Chinese characters (Pinyin) are Chinese characters in any character set that does not contain newly created characters or character substitutions performed after 1946.
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United Nations
The United Nations (UN) is an intergovernmental organization tasked to promote international cooperation and to create and maintain international order.
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USS Frank Knox (DD-742)
USS Frank Knox (DD-742) was a ''Gearing''-class destroyer which served in the United States Navy from 1944 to 1971.
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Woody Island (South China Sea)
Woody Island, also called Yongxing Island in People's Republic of China (PRC) and Phu Lam Island (Đảo Phú Lâm) in Vietnam, is the largest of the Paracel Islands in the South China Sea (SCS), with an area of.
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World War II
World War II (often abbreviated to WWII or WW2), also known as the Second World War, was a global war that lasted from 1939 to 1945, although conflicts reflecting the ideological clash between what would become the Allied and Axis blocs began earlier.
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References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pratas_Islands
