Taiwan only claims 500 square kilometers of the Earth's approximately 700,000-plus square kilometers of coral reef, but this area's relatively small size belies its tremendous diversity; the fact that it is home to 300 different coral species places it in the rarified company of Australia's 2600-kilometer-long, 344,000-square-kilometer Great Barrier Reef.
而在全球總面積約七十多萬平方公里的珊瑚礁區中，台灣珊瑚礁面積不到 500 平方公里，雖然微不足道，但珊瑚種類卻高達 300 種，足以和長達 2,600 公里、總面積 34.4 萬平方公里的澳洲大堡礁媲美。