Sea of Japan

The Sea of Japan is the marginal sea between the , , the Korean Peninsula, and the mainland of the . The Japanese archipelago separates the sea from the Pacific Ocean.
Wikipedia
  • Type: Sea
  • Description: marginal sea between Japan, Russia, and Korea
  • Also known as: “Đông Hải”, “East Sea”, “East Sea of Korea”, “Korea Orienta Maro”, “Koreanisches Ostmeer”, “mar de Japón”, “mar de l’Est”, “mar de l’Èst”, “mar de l’est de Corea”, “Mar de Oriente”, “mar del Japon”, “Mar do Leste”, “Mar do Leste da Coreia”, “Mar do Oriente”, “Mar Leste”, “Mar Orientale”, “Marea Coreei”, “Marea de Est”, “Mari di u Giappone”, “Mari Orientale”, “mer de Corée”, “mer de l’Est”, “Mor ar Reter”, “Morze Wschodnie”, “Morze Wschodniokoreańskie”, “Nhật Bản Hải”, “Oostzee van Korea”, “Orienta Maro”, “Ostmeer”, “Tekun Gabas na Koriya”, “the Sea of Japan”, “Východní moře”, “Zee van Japan”, “Ανατολική Θάλασσα”, “Дальневосточное море”, “источно море”, “Корейское Восточное море”, “Япун диңгезе”, “بحر الشرق”, “일본해”, “东海”, “日本海 / Японское море / 동해 / 조선동해”, “朝鮮东海”, “朝鮮東海”, “東海”, and “鲸海”

Sea of Japan

Latitude
39.741° or 39° 44′ 28″ north
Longitude
134.4946° or 134° 29′ 41″ east
Open location code
8QFPPFRV+9R
Open­Street­Map ID
node 9854021782
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­sea
Wiki­data ID
Q27092
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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Yue Chinese—“Sea of Japan” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “See van Japan”
  • Albanian: “Deti i Japonisë”
  • Amharic: “የጃፓን ባሕር”
  • Arabic: “بحر اليابان”
  • Armenian: “Ճապոնական ծով”
  • Assamese: “জাপান সাগৰ”
  • Asturian: “Mar de Xapón”
  • Azerbaijani: “Yapon dənizi”
  • Bashkir: “Япон диңгеҙе”
  • Basque: “Japoniako itsasoa”
  • Belarusian: “Японскае мора”
  • Bengali: “জাপান সাগর”
  • Bosnian: “Japansko more”
  • Breton: “Mor Japan”
  • Bulgarian: “Японско море”
  • Burmese: “ဂျပန်ပင်လယ်”
  • Catalan: “mar del Japó”
  • Catalan: “Mar del Japó”
  • Central Bikol: “Dagat Hapon”
  • Central Kurdish: “دەریای ژاپۆن”
  • Chinese: “日本海”
  • Chuvash: “Япон тинĕсĕ”
  • Cornish: “Mor Nihon”
  • Corsican: “Mar di u Ghjappone”
  • Corsican: “Mari di u Ghjappone”
  • Crimean Tatar: “Japon deñizi”
  • Croatian: “Japansko more”
  • Czech: “Japonské moře”
  • Danish: “Det Japanske Hav”
  • Danish: “Japanske Hav”
  • Dutch: “Japanse Zee”
  • Eastern Mari: “Япон теҥыз”
  • Esperanto: “Japana maro”
  • Esperanto: “Japana Maro”
  • Estonian: “Jaapani meri”
  • Fiji Hindi: “Japan ke samundar”
  • Finnish: “Japaninmeri”
  • French: “mer du Japon”
  • French: “Mer du Japon”
  • Galician: “Mar do Xapón”
  • Gan Chinese: “日本海”
  • Georgian: “იაპონიის ზღვა”
  • German: “Japanisches Meer”
  • Greek: “Θάλασσα της Ιαπωνίας”
  • Greek: “Ιαπωνική Θάλασσα”
  • Guarani: “Para Hapõ”
  • Hakka Chinese: “Ngit-pún-hói”
  • Hausa: “Tekun Japan”
  • Hawaiian: “Kai o Iāpana”
  • Hebrew: “ים יפן”
  • Hindi: “जापान सागर”
  • Hungarian: “Japán-tenger”
  • Icelandic: “Japanshaf”
  • Ido: “Maro di Japonia”
  • Igbo: “Sea of Japan”
  • Iloko: “Baybay ti Hapon”
  • Inari Sami: “Jaapaanmeerâ”
  • Indonesian: “Laut Jepang”
  • Irish: “Muir na Seapáine”
  • Italian: “Mar del Giappone”
  • Japanese: “にほんかい”
  • Japanese: “日本海”
  • Karachay-Balkar: “Япон тенгиз”
  • Kazakh: “Жапон теңізі”
  • Khmer: “សមុទ្រជប៉ុន”
  • Kirghiz: “Жапон деңизи”
  • Komering: “Lawok Jopang”
  • Korean: “Donghae”
  • Korean: “동해”
  • Korean: “조선동해”
  • Kurdish: “Deryaya Japanê”
  • Kurdish: “Deryaya Japanî”
  • Lao: “ທະ​ເລ​ຍີ່​ປຸ່ນ”
  • Latin: “Mare Iaponicum”
  • Latvian: “Japāņu jūra”
  • Lingua Franca Nova: “Mar Japanes”
  • Literary Chinese: “日本海”
  • Literary Chinese: “鯨海”
  • Lithuanian: “Japonijos jūra”
  • Livvi: “Japounienmeri”
  • Low German: “Japaansche See”
  • Lower Sorbian: “Japańske mórjo”
  • Luxembourgish: “Japanescht Mier”
  • Macedonian: “Јапонско Море”
  • Malay: “Laut Jepun”
  • Malayalam: “ജപ്പാൻ കടൽ”
  • Marathi: “जपानचा समुद्र”
  • Mazanderani: “جاپون دریا”
  • Mazanderani: “ژاپون دریا”
  • Min Dong Chinese: “Nĭk-buōng-hāi”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Ji̍t-pún-hái”
  • Mingrelian: “იაპონიაშ ზუღა”
  • Mongolian: “Япон тэнгис”
  • Moroccan Arabic: “بحر الجاپون”
  • Nepali: “जापानी सागर”
  • Northern Frisian: “Japoonsk Sia”
  • Northern Sami: “Japanmearra”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Japanhavet”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Japanhavet”
  • Norwegian: “Japanhavet”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “mar de Japon”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Mar de Japon”
  • Oriya: “ଜାପାନ ସାଗର”
  • Ossetian: “Японы денджыз”
  • Panjabi: “ਜਪਾਨ ਸਮੁੰਦਰ”
  • Panjabi: “ਜਪਾਨ ਸਾਗਰ”
  • Persian: “دریای ژاپن”
  • Polish: “Morze Japońskie”
  • Portuguese: “Mar do Japão”
  • Quechua: “Nihun hatun qucha”
  • Romanian: “Marea Japoniei”
  • Russian: “Японское море”
  • Samogitian: “Japuonėjės jūra”
  • Scots: “Sea o Japan”
  • Serbian: “Јапанско море”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Japansko more”
  • Sindhi: “جاپان جو سمنڊ”
  • Sinhala: “ජපන් මුහුද”
  • Skolt Sami: “Japaanmiârr”
  • Slovak: “Japonské more”
  • Slovenian: “Japonsko morje”
  • Somali: “Badda Jabaan”
  • South Azerbaijani: “ژاپون دنیزی”
  • Spanish: “mar del Japón”
  • Spanish: “Mar del Japón”
  • Sundanese: “Laut Jepang”
  • Swahili: “Bahari ya Japani”
  • Swedish: “Japanska havet”
  • Tagalog: “Dagat Hapon”
  • Tagalog: “Dagat ng Hapon”
  • Tajik: “Баҳри Ҷопон”
  • Tamil: “யப்பான் கடல்”
  • Tatar: “Япон диңгезе”
  • Telugu: “జపాన్ సముద్రం”
  • Thai: “ทะเลญี่ปุ่น”
  • Turkish: “Japon Denizi”
  • Udmurt: “Япон зарезь”
  • Ukrainian: “Японське море”
  • Upper Sorbian: “Japanske morjo”
  • Urdu: “بحیرہ جاپان”
  • Uzbek: “Yapon dengizi”
  • Venetian: “Mar del Japon”
  • Veps: “Japonijan meri”
  • Vietnamese: “Biển Nhật Bản”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Dagat Hapon”
  • Welsh: “Môr Japan”
  • Western Armenian: “Ճափոնի Ծով”
  • Western Frisian: “Japanske See”
  • Western Panjabi: “جپانی سمندر”
  • Wu Chinese: “日本海”
  • Yakut: “Дьоппуон байҕала”
  • Yue Chinese: “日本海”
  • “Sea of Japan”

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