Bohai Sea
English
Etymology
From Mandarin 渤海 (Bó Hǎi) + sea.
Proper noun
Bohai Sea
- (geography) A marginal sea on the east coast of mainland China.
- [1964, Jen, Yu-ti (任育地), “Land and People”, in A Concise Geography of China (中国地理概述), Peking: Foreign Languages Press, OCLC 799178199, OL 5937311M, page 4:
- The entire Pohai Sea and Chiungchow Straits are China’s inland seas.]
- 2009 June 22, “Oil slicks poisoning China's Bohai Sea - official”, in Emma Graham-Harrison, editor, Reuters, archived from the original on 14 May 2022, Oil Report:
- Bohai Sea is on the northeastern coast of China, bounded by Liaodong and Shandong Peninsulas, so pollution there is slow to wash out to the ocean, exacerbating damage to local marine life.
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Synonyms
- (dated) Gulf of Chihli
Translations
marginal sea
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See also
- Bohai Bay