South China Sea
![Satellite image of South China Sea](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/c3/Mar_de_China_Meridional_-_BM_WMS_2004.jpg)
$3.4 trillion of the world's $16 trillion maritime shipping passed through South China Sea in 2016. Oil and natural gas reserves have been found in the area. The Western Central Pacific accounted for 14% of world's commercial fishing in 2010.
The South China Sea Islands, collectively comprising several archipelago clusters of mostly small uninhabited islands, islets (cays and shoals), reefs/atolls and seamounts numbering in the hundreds, are subject to competing claims of sovereignty by several countries. These claims are also reflected in the variety of names used for the islands and the sea. Provided by Wikipedia
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