East China Sea

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East China Sea

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the East China Sea

  1. A marginal sea east of China, south of the Korean Peninsula, west of the Ryukyu Islands, and north of Taiwan.
    • 1998, Akira Kuninaka, AIR-SEA INTERACTIONS AND WATER MASS STRUCTURE OF THE EAST CHINA SEA AND YELLOW SEA[1], Naval Postgraduate School, page 1:
      The East China Sea (ECS) is located south of the YS to the north of Taiwan (Figure 1). The ECS is usually defined as reaching from the northern end of Taiwan Strait to the southern end of Kyusyu where it adjoins the YS along a line from Kyusyu to Shanghai (the mouth of the Yangtze River).
    Coordinate terms: South China Sea, Bohai Sea

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