Yellow SeaArticle Free Pass Yellow Sea, Chinese Huang Hai,
Korean Hwanghae, large inlet of the western Pacific Ocean lying
between mainland China on the west and north and the Korean
peninsula on the east. It is situated to the north of the East
China Sea, which it bounds on a line running from the mouth of
the Yangtze River (Chiang Jiang) to Cheju Island off South
Korea. It measures about 600 miles (960 km) from north to south
and about 435 miles (700 km) from east to west. In the northwest
part of the sea, northwest of a line between the Liaodong
Peninsula to the north and the Shandong Peninsula to the south,
is the Bo Hai (Gulf of Chihli). The area of the Yellow Sea
proper (excluding the Bo Hai) is about 146,700 square miles
(380,000 square km); its mean depth is 144 feet (44 metres), and
its maximum depth is some 500 feet (152 metres). Physiography
and geology The Yellow Sea, including the Bo Hai and Korea Bay,
forms a flat, shallow, and partly enclosed marine embayment.
Most of the sea, which is deeper t