Sin Cowe Island

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Sin Cowe Island or Island (Tagalog: Rurok; Chinese: 景宏岛; pinyin: Jinghong Dao; Vietnamese: Đảo Sinh Tồn) is an island in the Spratly Islands in the South China Sea. With an area of 8 hectares, it is the seventh largest Spratly island and the third largest among Vietnamese-occupied Spratly islands. It has fringing reef which is above water at low tide. This island, occupied by Vietnam since 1974, is also being claimed by China, Taiwan and the Philippines. It is part of Union Banks.^[1]