Country exposure · GEC-PF
Paracel Islands
East N Southeast Asia
What Paracel Islands means for your money — the prices you pay, the tariffs in motion, and where U.S. policy could change both.
2K
Population
U.S. exposure
Minimal direct economic exposure
Paracel Islands is not a significant U.S. goods-trade partner and has no tracked tariff actions. Policy changes here are unlikely to reach American prices directly.
Reference
The country itself
East N Southeast Asia · Geography, people, economy, and government — public-domain data from the CIA World Factbook.
The Paracel Islands are surrounded by productive fishing grounds and potential oil and gas reserves. In 1932, French Indochina annexed the islands and set up a weather station on Pattle Island. China has occupied all the Paracel Islands since 1974, when its troops seized a South Vietnamese garrison occupying the western islands. China has built a military installation on Woody Island with an airfield and artificial harbor, and it has scattered garrisons on some of the other islands. Taiwan and Vietnam also claim the Paracel Islands.
Geography
- Location
- Southeastern Asia, group of small islands and reefs in the South China Sea, about one-third of the way from central Vietnam to the northern Philippines
- Area
- 8 sq km ca.
- Climate
- tropical
- Terrain
- mostly low and flat
- Natural resources
- none
- Coastline
- 518 km
- Natural hazards
- typhoons
People & society
- Population
- 2,230 (2024 est.)
Full reference data
Every field, by section — CIA World Factbook. Open a topic to expand it.