Terrain: flat
Natural resources: fish, guano, undetermined oil and natural gas potential
Land use: arable land: 0% permanent crops: 0% meadows and pastures: 0% forest and woodland: 0% other: 100%
Irrigated land: 0 sq km
Environment:
current issues: NA
natural hazards: typhoons; serious maritime hazard because of numerous
reefs and shoals
international agreements: NA
Note: strategically located near several primary shipping lanes in the central South China Sea; includes numerous small islands, atolls, shoals, and coral reefs
@Spratly Islands:People
Population: no indigenous inhabitants; note - there are scattered garrisons
@Spratly Islands:Government
Names:
conventional long form: none
conventional short form: Spratly Islands