Xisha

The Paracel Islands, also called Xīshā Islands (西沙群岛) in Chinese and Hoàng Sa Islands (Quần đảo Hoàng Sa) in Vietnamese, is a group of islands where the sovereignty is disputed by the People's Republic of China (PRC), Republic of China (Taiwan) and Vietnam. All of the islands are currently under the administration of Hainan Province of the PRC, which, in July 2012, established Sansha City covering the islands as one of the three townships of the city. Chinese and South Vietnamese forces both occupied parts of the Paracel Islands before 1974, when the Battle of the Paracel Islands occurred, after which the former took over and controlled all of the Paracels.