Panatag Shoal

Scarborough Shoal, also known as Panacot, Bajo de Masinloc, Huangyan Island, Minzhu Jiao, and Panatag Shoal, is a coral atoll/reef with an inner lagoon and several rocks above high tide, located between Macclesfield Bank to the west and to the east.
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  • Type: Atoll
  • Description: atoll and reef in the South China Sea
  • Also known as: “Atolón Scarborough”, “Bajo de Masainloc”, “Democracy Reef”, “Huángyán Dǎo”, “Huangyan Island”, “Huangyan Islets”, “Mínzhǔ Jiāo”, “Panataška plitvina”, “Recife Scarborough”, “Scarborough Reef”, “Scarborough Shoal”, “Scarborough Shoal, Scarborough Reef”, “Scarboroughški greben”, “Σκαρμπόροου”, “Мілина Панатаг”, “Риф Скарборо”, “سکاربورووگھ شوال”, “স্কারবরো শোল”, “பனாதக் திட்டு”, “స్కార్బొరో షోయల్”, “ස්කාබෝරෝ ශෝආල්”, and “สคาร์โบโร โชล”
  • Historically known as: “Scarboro‘ Reef”

Panatag Shoal

Latitude
15.15047° or 15° 9′ 2″ north
Longitude
117.76494° or 117° 45′ 54″ east
Open location code
7P7V5Q27+5X
Geo­Names ID
11993394
Wiki­data ID
Q628716
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In Other Languages

From Achinese to Yue Chinese—“Panatag Shoal” goes by many names.
  • Achinese: “Bajo de Masinloc”
  • Arabic: “سكاربورو شول”
  • Bengali: “স্কারবোরো সোয়াল”
  • Catalan: “Escull Scarborough”
  • Chinese: “民主礁”
  • Chinese: “黃岩島”
  • Chinese: “黃巖島”
  • Chinese: “黄岩岛”
  • Czech: “Scarborough Shoal”
  • Danish: “Scarborough Shoal”
  • Dutch: “Scarborough-rif”
  • Esperanto: “Rifo de Scarborough”
  • Filipino: “Kulumpol ng Panatag”
  • Finnish: “Scarborough’n matalikko”
  • Finnish: “Scarboroughin matalikko”
  • French: “récif de Scarborough”
  • French: “Récif de Scarborough”
  • German: “Scarborough-Riff”
  • Greek: “Ύφαλος Σκάρμπορο”
  • Gujarati: “સ્કારબોરો શોલ”
  • Hebrew: “סקרבורו שואל”
  • Hindi: “स्कारबरो शोल”
  • Hungarian: “Scarborough-zátony”
  • Indonesian: “Gosong Scarborough”
  • Italian: “Scarborough Shoal”
  • Italian: “Secca di Scarborough”
  • Japanese: “スカボロー礁”
  • Kannada: “ಸ್ಕಾರ್ಬರೊ ಶೋಲ್”
  • Korean: “스카버러 암초”
  • Latvian: “Skārboro sēklis”
  • Lithuanian: “Skarboro sekluma”
  • Macedonian: “Скарборски Гребен”
  • Malay: “Beting Scarborough”
  • Marathi: “स्कार्बरो शोल”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Panatagrevene”
  • Norwegian: “Panatagrevene”
  • Persian: “سد ساحلی اسکاربرو”
  • Polish: “Huangyan Dao”
  • Portuguese: “Recife de Masinloc”
  • Russian: “Скарборо-Шол”
  • Sinhala: “ස්කාර්බෝරෝ ශඔල්”
  • Slovenian: “Scarboroughška plitvina”
  • Spanish: “Bajo de Masinloc”
  • Swedish: “Scarboroughrevet”
  • Tagalog: “Bajo de Masinloc”
  • Tagalog: “Kulumpol ng Panatag”
  • Tamil: “இசுகார்பரோ பவளத்தீவு”
  • Telugu: “స్కార్బొరో షోల్”
  • Thai: “สันทรายสคาร์โบโร่”
  • Turkish: “Scarborough Shoal”
  • Turkish: “Scarborough Sığlığı”
  • Ukrainian: “Мілина Скарборо”
  • Urdu: “سکیربورو شوال”
  • Vietnamese: “Bãi cạn Scarborough”
  • Yue Chinese: “黃巖島”

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