South China Sea

part of the Pacific Ocean which lies between southeast Asia and the Philippines

The South China Sea is a marginal sea south of China. It is a part of the Pacific Ocean, encompassing an area from Singapore to the Strait of Taiwan of around 3,500,000 km². It is the largest sea body after the five oceans. The minute South China Sea Islands, collectively an archipelago, number in the hundreds. The sea and its mostly uninhabited islands are subject to several competing claims of sovereignty by neighboring nations. These competing claims are also reflected in the variety of names used for the islands and the sea.
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Noun
1. a tropical arm of the Pacific Ocean near southeastern Asia subject to frequent typhoons
(hypernym) sea
(part-holonym) Pacific, Pacific Ocean
(part-meronym) Taiwan, Formosa