Nan-sha

From Mandarin 南沙 (Nánshā) Wade-Giles romanization: Nan²-sha¹.

Nan-sha

1. 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, editors, Nuclear Power in Developing Countries‎, Lexington Books, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, 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]

• An-shan, Anshan, Hanans, Hannas, Shanna