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| The Yellow Sea, showing surrounding countries. | |
| Chinese name | |
| Chinese: | 黄海 |
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| Hangul: | 황해 or 서해 |
| Hanja: | 黃海 or 西海 |
The Yellow Sea is the name given to the northern part of the East China Sea, which is a marginal sea of the Pacific Ocean. Hanja is the Korean name for Chinese characters. More specifically it refers to those Chinese characters borrowed from Chinese and incorporated The East China Sea is a Marginal sea east of China. It is a part of the Pacific Ocean and covers an area of 1249000 km² A marginal sea is a part of an ocean partially enclosed by land such as Islands Archipelagos or Peninsulas Unlike mediterranean The Pacific Ocean is the largest of the Earth 's Oceanic divisions It is located between mainland China and the Korean peninsula. Mainland China, Continental China, the Chinese mainland or simply the mainland, is a geopolitical term synonymous with the area that is under the jurisdiction Physical geography See also Geography of North Korea, Geography of South Korea Mountains cover 70 percent of the Korean Peninsula and arable plains are Its name comes from the sand particles that color its water, originating from the Yellow River. The Yellow River or Huang He / Hwang Ho ( Hatan Gol Queen river) is the second-longest river in China (after the Yangtze River) and the
The innermost bay of the Yellow Sea is called the Bohai Sea (previously Pechihli Bay or Chihli Bay). Bo Hai ( also known as Bohai Sea or Bohai Gulf, is the innermost gulf of the Yellow Sea on the coast of northeastern China. Into it flows both the Yellow River (through Shandong province and its capital Jinan) and Hai He (through Beijing and Tianjin). ( is a coastal province of eastern People's Republic of China. Jinan ( in some literatures the pinyin without tones is given as Ji'nan, to disambiguate from a possible misreading as Jin'an is a Sub-provincial city The Hai River ( previously called Bai He (Chinese 白河 pinyin Bái Hé; literally "white river" Pei Ho in Western sources is a ( Postal map spelling: Tientsin) is the second largest city in northern coastal China.
Liaodong Bay, between the Chinese Liaoning province and northwestern North Korea is also part of the Yellow Sea. Liaodong Bay is one of the three bays forming the Bohai Gulf, the innermost gulf of the Yellow Sea, in northeastern China. ( is a northeastern province of the People's Republic of China. North Korea is the commonly used short form name for the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (or DPRK) a State located in East Asia,
The Bohai Sea and Liaodong Bay are separated by the Liaodong Peninsula, with Dalian at its southernmost point. The Liáodōng Peninsula ( is a Peninsula in the Liáoníng province of northeastern China, historically known in the west as southern east- Manchuria Dalian (;; Japanese: Dairen Russian: Далянь Dalian or Дальний Dalny is the governing Sub-provincial city in the eastern Liaoning
Environment
The intertidal mudflats of the Yellow Sea are of great importance for migratory waders or shorebirds. Mudflats (also tidal flats, tide flats, etc are coastal wetlands that form when mud is deposited by tides or rivers Bird migration refers to the regular seasonal journeys undertaken by many species of Birds Bird movements include those made in response to changes in food availability Waders, called shorebirds in North America (where "wader" is used to refer to long-legged wading Birds such as Storks and Surveys show that the area is the single most important site for migratory birds on northward migration in the entire East Asian - Australasian Flyway, with a minimum number of two million birds passing through at the time, with about half that number using it on southward migration. The East Asian - Australasian Flyway is one of the world's great Flyways At its northernmost it stretches eastwards from the Taimyr Peninsula in Russia [1][2]
See also
References
- ^ Barter, M. The geography of China stretches some 5026 kilometers across the East Asian landmass bordering the East China Sea, Korea Bay, Yellow Sea, and North Korea is located in East Asia on the northern half of the Korean Peninsula. South Korea is located in East Asia, on the southern half of the Korean Peninsula jutting out from the far east of the Asian land mass A. (2002). Shorebirds of the Yellow Sea - importance, threats and conservation status. Wetlands International Global Series 9. International Wader Studies 12. Canberra.
- ^ Barter, M. A. (2005). Yellow Sea - driven priorities for Australian shorebird researchers. pp. 158-160 in: "Status and Conservation of Shorebirds in the East Asian - Australasian Flyway". Proceedings of the Australasian Shorebird Conference, 13-15 December 2003, Canberra, Australia. International Wader Studies 17. Sydney.
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