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Bohai Sea

The Bohai Sea is a gulf/inland sea approximately 77,000 km2 in area on the east coast of Mainland China. It is the northwestern and innermost extension of the Yellow Sea, to which it connects via the Bohai Strait.
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  • Type: Bay
  • Description: sea in China
  • Also known as: “Beizhili Gulf”, “Bohai”, “Bohai Gulf”, “Chih-li-hai Wan”, “Gulf of Beizhili”, “Gulf of Bohai”, “Gulf of Chihli”, “Gulf of Pe-Chili”, “Gulf of Pechili”, and “Po-hai Wan”

Bohai Sea

Latitude
38.87393° or 38° 52′ 26″ north
Longitude
119.80591° or 119° 48′ 21″ east
Open location code
8PCXVRF4+H9
Geo­Names ID
1816290
Wiki­data ID
Q181969
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Satellite Map

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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Yue Chinese—“Bohai Sea” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “بحر بوهاي”
  • Armenian: “Բոհայվան (ծոց)”
  • Armenian: “Բոհայվան”
  • Asturian: “Mar de Bohai”
  • Azerbaijani: “Bohai dənizi”
  • Azerbaijani: “Boxayvan”
  • Balinese: “Segara Bohai”
  • Basque: “Bohai Golko”
  • Basque: “Bohai itsasoa”
  • Belarusian: “Бахайскі заліў”
  • Bosnian: “Bohai more”
  • Bosnian: “Bohajsko more”
  • Bulgarian: “Бохайско море”
  • Catalan: “Bo Hai”
  • Catalan: “Bohai”
  • Catalan: “Golf de Bohai”
  • Catalan: “Mar de Bohai”
  • Cebuano: “Bohai Wan”
  • Chinese: “Pu̍t-hái”
  • Chinese: “渤海”
  • Cornish: “Mor Bohai”
  • Croatian: “Bohajsko more”
  • Czech: “Pochajské moře”
  • Czech: “Pochjaský záliv”
  • Danish: “Bohaihavet”
  • Dutch: “Bohai (zee)”
  • Dutch: “Bohai Zee”
  • Dutch: “Bohai”
  • Dutch: “Bohaizee”
  • Dutch: “Golf van Bohai”
  • Esperanto: “Bohai-maro”
  • Esperanto: “Bohai”
  • Esperanto: “Bohaj-golfo”
  • Esperanto: “Bohaj-maro”
  • Estonian: “Bo Hai”
  • Finnish: “Bohainmeri”
  • French: “Golfe de Bohai”
  • French: “Golfe de Petcheli”
  • French: “Golfe-Petcheli”
  • French: “mer de Bohai”
  • French: “Mer de Bohai”
  • Galician: “Mar de Bohai”
  • Georgian: “ბოხაი”
  • Georgian: “ბოხაივანი”
  • Georgian: “ბოხაის ზღვა”
  • Georgian: “ბოხაის ყურე”
  • Georgian: “ბოჰაი”
  • Georgian: “ბოჰაის ზღვა”
  • Georgian: “ბოჰაის ყურე”
  • German: “Bo Hai”
  • German: “Bohai-Golf”
  • German: “Bohai-Meer”
  • German: “Bohai-See”
  • German: “Golf von Bohai”
  • German: “Golf von Tschi-Li”
  • Greek: “Θάλασσα Μποχάι”
  • Hausa: “Kogin Bohai”
  • Hebrew: “ים בוהאי”
  • Hindi: “बोहाई सागर”
  • Hindi: “बोहाय सागर”
  • Hungarian: “Pohaj-tenger”
  • Icelandic: “Bóhaíhaf”
  • Iloko: “Baybay Bohai”
  • Indonesian: “Laut Bohai”
  • Italian: “Mare di Bohai”
  • Japanese: “渤海”
  • Japanese: “渤海海峡”
  • Japanese: “渤海湾”
  • Japanese: “莱州湾”
  • Japanese: “遼東湾”
  • Khmer: “សមុទ្របូហៃ”
  • Korean: “라이저우 만”
  • Korean: “발해해”
  • Korean: “보하이”
  • Korean: “보하이해”
  • Latin: “Mare Bohaiense”
  • Latvian: “Bohai jūra”
  • Literary Chinese: “渤海”
  • Lithuanian: “Bohajaus įlanka”
  • Luxembourgish: “Golf vu Bohai”
  • Macedonian: “Бохајско Море”
  • Malay: “Laut Bohai”
  • Marathi: “बोहाय समुद्र”
  • Mazanderani: “بوهای”
  • Mazanderani: “پوهای دریو”
  • Min Dong Chinese: “Buŏk-hāi”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Pu̍t-hái”
  • Mingrelian: “ბოხაივანი”
  • Mongolian: “Бохайн тэнгис”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Bo Hai-havet”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Bohai-havet”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Bohai”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Bohaihavet”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Chih-li-bukten”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Bo Hai”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Bohai-bukta”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Bohai”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Bohaibukta”
  • Norwegian: “Bohai”
  • Panjabi: “ਬੋਹਾਈ ਸਾਗਰ”
  • Persian: “خلیج بوهای”
  • Persian: “خلیج عقبه”
  • Persian: “دریای بوهای”
  • Polish: “Bó Hăi”
  • Polish: “Zatoka Pohaj”
  • Portuguese: “Mar de Bohai”
  • Russian: “Бохайвань”
  • Russian: “Бохайский залив”
  • Russian: “Бохайское море”
  • Russian: “Печилийский залив”
  • Russian: “Чжилийский залив”
  • Scots: “Bohai Sea”
  • Serbian: “Bohajsko more”
  • Serbian: “Бохајско море”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Bohajsko more”
  • Slovenian: “Bohajsko morje”
  • Spanish: “golfo de Bohai”
  • Spanish: “golfo de Chihli”
  • Spanish: “golfo de Pechihli”
  • Spanish: “mar de Bohai”
  • Spanish: “Mar de Bohai”
  • Swahili: “Bahari ya Bohai”
  • Swedish: “Bo Hai”
  • Swedish: “Bohai”
  • Swedish: “Bohaihavet”
  • Swedish: “Zhiligolfen”
  • Swedish: “Zhiliviken”
  • Thai: “ทะเลปั๋วไห่”
  • Turkish: “Bo Hai Körfezi”
  • Turkish: “Bohai Denizi”
  • Ukrainian: “Бохайвань”
  • Ukrainian: “Бохайська затока”
  • Urdu: “بحیرہ بوہای”
  • Venetian: “Mar de Bohai”
  • Vietnamese: “biển Bột Hải”
  • Vietnamese: “Bột Hải”
  • Vietnamese: “vịnh Bột Hải”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Bohai Sea”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Dagat Bohai”
  • Welsh: “Môr Bohai”
  • Western Frisian: “Bohaisee”
  • Wu Chinese: “渤海”
  • Yue Chinese: “渤海”

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