Higashi Shina Kai

E16375

marginal sea sea

Higashi Shina Kai is the Japanese name for the East China Sea, a marginal sea located between China, Japan, Taiwan, and the Korean Peninsula.

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	marginal sea → sea →
areaSquareKilometres	1249000 →
boundedBy	East China coast → Kyushu → Ryukyu Islands → Taiwan →
connectedTo	Philippine Sea → South China Sea → Yellow Sea →
countryBorder	China → Japan → South Korea → Taiwan →
flowsInto	Philippine Sea →
hasAverageDepthMetres	350 →
hasEconomicImportance	fisheries → offshore oil and gas → shipping route →
hasEnglishName	East China Sea →
hasJapaneseName	東シナ海 →
hasMajorCurrent	Kuroshio Current →
hasMajorIsland	Diaoyu Islands → Jeju Island → Senkaku Islands → Zhoushan Archipelago →
hasMajorPort	Fuzhou → Keelung → Nagasaki → Shanghai →
hasMajorRiverMouth	Min River (Fujian) → Qiantang River → Yangtze River →
hasStrait	Korea Strait → Taiwan Strait → Tokara Strait →
hasSurfaceWaterTemperatureRangeCelsius	9–28 →
locatedInRegion	East Asia → Western Pacific Ocean →
locatedOnContinentalShelfOf	Eurasia →
maximumDepthMetres	2716 →
partOf	Pacific Ocean →
separates	China → Japan → Korean Peninsula → Taiwan →
subjectOf	maritime boundary disputes → territorial disputes →

Subject (surface form when different)	Predicate
East China Sea →	nameInJapanese