Zhongsha Islands

The Zhongsha Islands is a Chinese term for a collection of two skerries, many entirely submerged banks, seamounts, and shoals in the South China Sea.

There are no islands in the Macclesfield Bank, the main part of Zhongsha.

The Scarborough Shoal, which consists of two skerries, is not contiguous with the Macclesfield Bank but Chinese sources treat them as one chain of geographical features.

No country has constant control of the whole region, and there are disputes - for example, see the Scarborough Shoal standoff.

The PRC claims to administer the area as Zhongsha Daojiao Town(中沙岛礁镇), a town under the Xisha District of the Sansha prefecture-level city in Hainan.