Nan-sha
See also: Nansha and Nánshā
English
Etymology
From Mandarin 南沙 (Nánshā) Wade-Giles romanization: Nan²-sha¹.
Proper noun
Nan-sha
- Alternative form of Nansha
- 1975 April 7, “Sino-Malaysian Territorial Disagreement”, in Staff Notes: East Asia, CIA, published 2001, page 5:
- Tseng-mu Reef is described in Peking publications as "the southernmost part of China" and within the Nan-sha (Spratly) group of islands.
- [1982, Agatha S.Y. Wong-Fraser, “People's Republic of China”, in James Everett Katz; Onkar S Marwah, editor, Nuclear Power in Developing Countries, Lexington Books, →ISBN, LCCN 81-47622, OCLC 924911568, pages 119-120:
- Since 1966, extensive offshore reserves in the continental shelf—stretching from the Yellow Sea as far as Hsi-Sha (Paracel) and Nan-Sha (Spratley) Islands in the South China Sea—have been reported in official Chinese statements,³ reinforcing the long-maintained claim that the PRC holds the third-largest oil and gas reserves in the world.⁴]
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Translations
Nansha — see Nansha
Anagrams
- An-shan, Anshan, Hanans, Hannas, Shanna