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Coral atoll (representative scene), Paracel Islands
16
Records
2
Datasets
11
Tables
2
Sources
42
SEL Fields
12
CCL Fields
📖 HERA Atlas 📕 HG Book 📊 HG Data
📋 Most recent national census: not on record. Paracel Islands has no recent national census on record; the data below comes from international secondary sources.
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Datasets (2)
SEL — DGIWG Statistical Extent Location SEL+ — Platform extension (not in DGIWG core spec) CCL — DGIWG Cultural Context Location Extension — Preserved in extension tables (not in core SEL/CCL schema) Pending — Awaiting mapping
XPI OpenFactBook XPI-OPENFACTBOOK Country Profile
9 rows · 9 tables · 2024 OpenFactBook 0 1 2 3 38 SEL 61 ext ▶
XPI NGA GEOnet Names Server (GNS) XPI-NGA_GNS Language
7 rows · 2 tables · 2026 NGA GEOnet Names Server (GNS) 0 1 2 3 4 SEL 12 CCL 14 ext ▶
Toponymic Footprint 435 place names from NGA GNS

Which languages name the landscape here, and in which writing systems. A language's toponymic footprint and its speaker population are different measures and often diverge. Counts include variant and foreign-language renderings of the same place, so a language can rank high because outside sources record names in it rather than because it is spoken locally — and a widely spoken language can be almost absent where official naming is in another language.

LanguagePlace names Share*Script
Chinese (zho) 234 81.0% Han (Traditional variant) +1
Vietnamese (vie) 45 15.6% —
French (fra) 5 1.7% —
English (eng) 3 1.0% —
Filipino; Pilipino (fil) 1 0.3% —
Tagalog (tgl) 1 0.3% —

42 distinct features · 6 languages · 2 scripts · 129 names in non-Roman script
Source: NGA GEOnet Names Server (public domain) · rebuilt Wed, 05 Aug 2026.
* Shares are of the 289 names that carry a language code; the remaining 146 of 435 are unattributed, so these percentages do not divide into the headline count. Names follow the US/BGN convention.

Data Sources (2)

The data providers this country's datasets are sourced from — each links out to the provider.

SourceTypeAccess
NGA GEOnet Names Server (GNS) official_government bulk_download
OpenFactBook community_compilation bulk_download

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