Yellow Sea

The Yellow Sea is a part of the China Sea and surrounded by the People's Republic of China and the Korean Peninsula marginal sea of ​​the Pacific Ocean. The Gulf of Bohai and Korea Bay in the north are part of the Yellow Sea. In the south, the East China Sea connects.

The Yellow Sea measures 960 km from north to south, and 700 kilometers wide. The surface area is 380,000 km ². There is an average of 44 meters and a maximum of 152 feet deep. This results in a water volume of 16,720 km ³. The Yellow Sea is a shallow sea, similar to the North Sea on the other end of the Eurasian continent. Its mudflats are an important resting area for wading birds.

Its characteristic color, which led to the naming, it receives from the nutrient-rich yellow silt, the loess, the carry into the Yellow River and other rivers at their confluence with the Yellow Sea and deposited there.