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: “East Sea” and “East Sea of Korea”

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 الشرق”
  • 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 ar Reter”
  • Breton: “Mor Japan”
  • Bulgarian: “Японско море”
  • Burmese: “ဂျပန်ပင်လယ်”
  • Catalan: “mar de l’est de Corea”
  • Catalan: “mar de l’Est”
  • Catalan: “mar del Japó”
  • Catalan: “Mar del Japó”
  • Central Bikol: “Dagat Hapon”
  • Central Kurdish: “دەریای ژاپۆن”
  • Chinese: “Ji̍t-pún-hái”
  • Chinese: “东海”
  • Chinese: “日本海”
  • Chinese: “朝鮮东海”
  • Chinese: “東海”
  • Chinese: “鯨海”
  • Chinese: “鲸海”
  • Chuvash: “Япон тинĕсĕ”
  • Cornish: “Mor Nihon”
  • Corsican: “Mar di u Ghjappone”
  • Corsican: “Mar Orientale”
  • Corsican: “Mari di u Ghjappone”
  • Corsican: “Mari di u Giappone”
  • Corsican: “Mari Orientale”
  • Crimean Tatar: “Japon deñizi”
  • Croatian: “Japansko more”
  • Czech: “Japonské moře”
  • Czech: “Východní moře”
  • Danish: “Det Japanske Hav”
  • Danish: “Japanske Hav”
  • Dutch: “Japanse Zee”
  • Dutch: “Oostzee van Korea”
  • Dutch: “Zee van Japan”
  • Eastern Mari: “Япон теҥыз”
  • Esperanto: “Japana maro”
  • Esperanto: “Japana Maro”
  • Esperanto: “Korea Orienta Maro”
  • Esperanto: “Orienta Maro”
  • Estonian: “Jaapani meri”
  • Fiji Hindi: “Japan ke samundar”
  • Finnish: “Japaninmeri”
  • French: “mer de Corée”
  • French: “mer de l’Est”
  • French: “mer du Japon”
  • French: “Mer du Japon”
  • Galician: “Mar do Xapón”
  • Gan Chinese: “日本海”
  • Georgian: “იაპონიის ზღვა”
  • German: “Japanisches Meer”
  • German: “Koreanisches Ostmeer”
  • German: “Ostmeer”
  • Greek: “Ανατολική Θάλασσα”
  • Greek: “Θάλασσα της Ιαπωνίας”
  • Greek: “Ιαπωνική Θάλασσα”
  • Guarani: “Para Hapõ”
  • Hakka Chinese: “Ngit-pún-hói”
  • Hausa: “Tekun Gabas na Koriya”
  • Hausa: “Tekun Japan”
  • Hawaiian: “Kai o Iāpana”
  • Hebrew: “ים יפן”
  • Hindi: “जापान सागर”
  • Hungarian: “Japán-tenger”
  • Icelandic: “Japanshaf”
  • Ido: “Maro di Japonia”
  • Igbo: “East Sea of Korea”
  • Igbo: “East Sea”
  • Igbo: “Sea of Japan”
  • Iloko: “Baybay ti Hapon”
  • Inari Sami: “Jaapaanmeerâ”
  • Indonesian: “Laut Jepang”
  • Irish: “Muir na Seapáine”
  • Italian: “Mar del Giappone”
  • Italian: “Mar Orientale”
  • Japanese: “にほんかい”
  • Japanese: “日本海”
  • Japanese: “朝鮮東海”
  • Japanese: “東海”
  • Karachay-Balkar: “Япон тенгиз”
  • Kazakh: “Жапон теңізі”
  • Khmer: “សមុទ្រជប៉ុន”
  • Kirghiz: “Жапон деңизи”
  • Komering: “Lawok Jopang”
  • Korean: “동해”
  • Korean: “일본해”
  • 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”
  • 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”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “mar de l’Èst”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “mar del Japon”
  • Oriya: “ଜାପାନ ସାଗର”
  • Ossetian: “Японы денджыз”
  • Panjabi: “ਜਪਾਨ ਸਮੁੰਦਰ”
  • Panjabi: “ਜਪਾਨ ਸਾਗਰ”
  • Persian: “دریای ژاپن”
  • Polish: “Morze Japońskie”
  • Polish: “Morze Wschodnie”
  • Polish: “Morze Wschodniokoreańskie”
  • Portuguese: “Mar do Japão”
  • Portuguese: “Mar do Leste da Coreia”
  • Portuguese: “Mar do Leste”
  • Portuguese: “Mar do Oriente”
  • Portuguese: “Mar Leste”
  • Quechua: “Nihun hatun qucha”
  • Romanian: “Marea Coreei”
  • Romanian: “Marea de Est”
  • Romanian: “Marea Japoniei”
  • Russian: “Дальневосточное море”
  • Russian: “Корейское Восточное море”
  • Russian: “Японское море”
  • Samogitian: “Japuonėjės jūra”
  • Scots: “Sea o Japan”
  • Serbian: “источно море”
  • Serbian: “Јапанско море”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Japansko more”
  • Sinhala: “ජපන් මුහුද”
  • Skolt Sami: “Japaanmiârr”
  • Slovak: “Japonské more”
  • Slovenian: “Japonsko morje”
  • Somali: “Badda Jabaan”
  • South Azerbaijani: “ژاپون دنیزی”
  • Spanish: “mar de Japon”
  • Spanish: “mar de Japón”
  • Spanish: “Mar de Oriente”
  • Spanish: “mar del Japon”
  • 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”
  • Tatar: “Япун 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”
  • Vietnamese: “Đông Hải”
  • Vietnamese: “Nhật Bản Hải”
  • 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”
  • Yoruba: “East Sea of Korea”
  • Yoruba: “East Sea”
  • Yue Chinese: “日本海”
  • “Japuonėjės jūra”
  • “Sea of Japan”

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