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Where is the East China Sea located?
Pacific Ocean
East China Sea, Chinese (Wade-Giles) Tung Hai or (Pinyin) Dong Hai, arm of the Pacific Ocean bordering the East Asian mainland and extending northeastward from the South China Sea, to which it is connected by the shallow Taiwan Strait between Taiwan and mainland China.
What hemisphere is the South China Sea in?
South China Sea, Chinese Nan Hai, arm of the western Pacific Ocean that borders the Southeast Asian mainland.
What flows into East China Sea?
Yangtze River
The Yangtze River (Chang Jiang) is the largest river flowing into the East China Sea.
How wide is the East China Sea?
The south-north length of the East China Sea is about 1300 km and the width from east to west is about 740 km, the area is about 77.377 × 104 km2, and average water depth is 370 m. The South China Sea is located in the most southern part of the China Sea area.
Who controls the East China Sea?
The East China Sea is shared among the People’s Republic of China, Japan and South Korea, the three major East Asian countries, whose diplomatic and economic interactions are some of the most important international relations in the world.
How deep is the South China Sea?
18,238′
South China Sea/Max depth
Does Japan Own Sea of Japan?
The Japanese government supports the exclusive use of the name “Sea of Japan” (日本海), while South Korea supports the alternative name “East Sea” (Korean: 동해; Hanja: 東海), and North Korea supports the name “Korean East Sea” (Korean: 조선동해; Hanja: 朝鮮東海).
Where is the South China Sea and the East China Sea?
To the east lies the Japanese island of Kyushu and the Ryukyu Islands, to the south lies the South China Sea, and to the west lies the Asian continent. The sea connects with the Sea of Japan (East Sea) through the Korea Strait and opens to the north into the Yellow Sea.
What are the limits of the East China Sea?
The International Hydrographic Organization defines the limits of the “Eastern China Sea (Tung Hai)” as follows: On the South.
What hemisphere is China in?
China lies within both the northern and eastern hemispheres. The country is situated between North Korea and Vietnam. Comprising a total area of 3.7 million square miles, it makes up a large part of eastern Asia.
Where are the bodies of water that border China?
The bodies of water that border China include the East China Sea, Korea Bay, Yellow Sea and the South China Sea. The capital of China is Beijing, while its largest city is Shanghai. China has a population of about 1.3 billion people, as of 2014, making it the most populated country in the world.