Layang Layang
Layang Layang is an island situated 300 km north of the coast of Sabah, in Malaysian Borneo. A part of the disputed Spratly Islands, the island is also claimed by China, Taiwan, Vietnam and the Philippines, and is occasionally known in English as Swallow Reef.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: matthew lee, CC BY 2.0.
Photo: matthew lee, CC BY 2.0.
- Type: Atoll
- Description: atoll administered by Malaysia
- Also known as: “Celerio Reef”, “Layang-Layang”, “Swallow Island”, “Swallow Reef”, and “Tan-wan Chiao”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Layang-Layang Island Airport.
Layang-Layang Island Airport
Aerodrome
Layang-Layang Airport is located on Swallow Reef in the Spratly Islands of the South China Sea. It is about 300 kilometres north of Kota Kinabalu, Sabah.
Layang Layang
- Categories: atoll and landform
- Location: Sabah, Malaysia, Southeast Asia, Asia
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Vietnamese—“Layang Layang” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “سوالو ريف”
- Bengali: “লায়াং লায়াং”
- Chinese: “弹丸礁”
- Chinese: “彈丸礁”
- Chinese: “拉央拉央岛”
- Chinese: “拉央拉央島”
- French: “Récif Swallow”
- German: “Swallow-Riff”
- German: “Terumbu Layang-Layang”
- Indonesian: “Pulau Layang-Layang”
- Japanese: “スワロー礁”
- Malay: “Pulau Layang-layang”
- Malay: “Pulau Layang-Layang”
- Malay: “Terumbu Layang Layang”
- Spanish: “Arrecife Swallow”
- Spanish: “Swallow Reef”
- Swedish: “Danwan Jiao”
- Swedish: “Swallow Reef”
- Vietnamese: “Đá Hoa Lau”
- Vietnamese: “Hoa Lau”
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About Mapcarta. Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikivoyage page “Layang Layang”. Photo: matthew lee, CC BY 2.0.