Gulf of Tonkin

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The Gulf of Tonkin (also Tonkin, Tonkin or Bay of Bắc Bó; Vietnamese: Vinh Bắc Bó; Chinese: Beibu Wān北部 湾) is an arm of the South China Sea.

The name is derived from the Vietnamese countryside Tonkin.

The island of Hainan and the Leizhou Peninsula (belongs to Guangdong) separating the Gulf to the east from the sea off the north it is bounded by the Autonomous Region of Guangxi (all belonging to the People's Republic of China), to the west is Vietnam. To the south it opens to the South China Sea. Between Leizhou and Hainan is the Strait of Qiongzhou.

The Gulf is about 90,000 km ². The water is relatively shallow, the greatest depth is 68 m. The Red River flows into the Gulf. Haiphong in Vietnam, Beihai ( Peihai ) in mainland China and Haikou on Hainan ( on the road from Qiongzhou ) are the main ports.

Historically important is the Gulf of Tonkin incident, the United States officially entered in the sequence in the Vietnam War.

One of the most famous sights of the Gulf constitutes Halong Bay

• Bay in Vietnam
• Bay in China
• Bay in Asia
• Bay ( South China Sea )