Nan-sha

Proper noun

Nansha (usually uncountable, plural Nanshas)

1. (usually) A district of Guangzhou, Guangdong, China.
   • On April 28, 2005, the State Council approved a new scheme of district administration in Guangzhou.[...]The southern part of Panyu was upgraded into an independent urban district, Nansha district.2010, Martin King Whyte, editor, One Country, Two Societies: Rural-Urban Inequality in Contemporary China, Harvard University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 408
2. (usually) Synonym of Spratly Islands: the Mandarin Chinese-derived name.
   • In addition to these two autonomous areas, Kwangtung Province also administers the islands in the South China Sea claimed by China. These are the Tungsha, Sisha, Chungsha and Nansha groups.[...]Finally, the Nansha group, which has no collective Western designation, extends from Lat. 4 degrees to 11...1956, Theodore Shabad, China's Changing Map: A Political and Economic Geography of The Chinese People's Republic, Frederick A. Praeger, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 169

   Synonyms:

   Spratly Islands

3. (usually) A district of Sansha, Hainan, China (claimed areas encompass areas administered or claimed by Brunei, China (PRC), Malaysia, the Philippines, Taiwan (ROC), and Vietnam).
   • Only last month, China established Xisha District (西沙) on Woody Island (Yongxing Island, 永興島) and Nansha District (南沙) on the reef, both of which fall under Sansha, a prefecture-level city established in 2012.2020 May 27, Li-shih Lu, “China’s expanding military reach”, in Taipei Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 03 Jun 2020, Editorials, page 8