The South China Sea is located in the Pacific Ocean, south of China, northwest of the Philippines, east of Cambodia and Vietnam, and north of Borneo and the Bangka-Belitung Islands. At one time the South China Sea was referred to as the Sea of Cham or Champa Sea, after the Champa kingdom of the 1500s. In China it is referred to as China Sea, and Philippine agencies often refer to part of it as West Philippine Sea. In Vietnam they refer to the South China Sea as the East Sea. Countries that border the South China Sea include the People's Republic of China, the Philippines, Malaysia, Taiwan, Brunei, Indonesia, Vietnam, and Singapore.
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