What are cyclones in the South China Sea and Western Pacific called?

Q. What are cyclones in the South China Sea and Western Pacific called?
Answer: Typhoons
Notes: Cyclone can be defined as the rapid inward circulation of air masses about a low-pressure centre which is circling counter-clockwise in the northern hemisphere and clockwise in the southern.
They are called as Typhoons in South China Sea and Western Pacific.

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