China
South China
Hainan

Sansha

Sansha City is a prefecture-level city under the Hainan province of . It is the southernmost and least populated prefecture in China by far, with the smallest land area but the largest maritime territory.
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Places of Interest

Highlights include Yongxing Island Airport.

Aerodrome
Photo: Wikimedia, GFDL.
Sansha Yongxing Airport is a civilian-military dual-use airport located on Yongxing Island, the largest of the disputed in the South China Sea.

Sansha

Latitude
16.8323° or 16° 49′ 56″ north
Longitude
112.3338° or 112° 20′ 2″ east
Population
1,500
Elevation
12 metres (39 feet)
Open location code
7P8JR8JM+WG
Open­Street­Map ID
node 6625377006
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
8402317
Wiki­data ID
Q264818
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Satellite Map

Discover Sansha from above in high-definition satellite imagery.
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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Zhuang—“Sansha” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “سانشا”
  • Armenian: “Սանշա”
  • Asturian: “Sansha”
  • Bengali: “সানশা”
  • Catalan: “Sansha”
  • Chinese: “Sam-soa-chhī”
  • Chinese: “Sānshā Shì”
  • Chinese: “三沙”
  • Chinese: “三沙市”
  • Czech: “San-ša”
  • Dutch: “Sansha”
  • Finnish: “Sansha”
  • French: “Sansha”
  • Gan Chinese: “三沙市”
  • German: “Sansha”
  • Hakka Chinese: “Sâm-sâ-sṳ”
  • Hebrew: “סאנשה”
  • Hungarian: “Szansa”
  • Indonesian: “Sansha”
  • Italian: “Sansha”
  • Japanese: “三沙市”
  • Kikuyu: “Sansha”
  • Korean: “싼사 시”
  • Korean: “싼사시”
  • Kurdish: “Sansha”
  • Malay: “Sansha”
  • Min Dong Chinese: “Săng-să”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Sam-soa-chhī”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Sansha”
  • Norwegian: “Sansha”
  • Pampanga: “Sansha”
  • Persian: “سانشا”
  • Polish: “Sansha”
  • Portuguese: “Sansha”
  • Russian: “Саньша”
  • Slovenian: “Sanša”
  • Spanish: “Oficina Administrativa de las Islas Xisha, Zhongsha y Nansha”
  • Spanish: “Oficina Administrativa de las Islas Xisha”
  • Spanish: “Sansha”
  • Swedish: “Sansha”
  • Tagalog: “Sansha”
  • Thai: “ซันชา”
  • Turkish: “Sansha”
  • Ukrainian: “Санша”
  • Ukrainian: “Саньша”
  • Urdu: “سانشا”
  • Vietnamese: “Tam Sa”
  • Welsh: “Sansha”
  • Wu Chinese: “三沙市”
  • Yue Chinese: “三沙”
  • Yue Chinese: “三沙市”
  • Zhuang: “Sanhsah”

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