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The Yellow Sea (in North and South Korea, it is also called the West Sea) is the northern part of the East China Sea, which in turn is a part of the Pacific Ocean. It is located between Mainland China and the Korean peninsula. Its name comes from the sand particles that color its water, originating from the yellow river, Huang He.

The innermost bay of the Yellow Sea is called Bohai Sea (previously Pechili Bay or Zhili Bay). Into it flows both Huang He (through the Shandong province and its capital Jinan) and Hai He (through Beijing and Tianjin).

The Korea Bay, between the Chinese Liaoning province and northwestern North Korea is also part of the Yellow Sea.

The Bohai Sea and the Korea Bay are separated by the Liaodong Peninsula, with DalianDalian ( Traditional Chinese: , Simplified Chinese: , Hanyu Pinyin: Dalian, Wade-Giles: Ta-lien), formerly Luda or Luta is an ice-free seaport and a sub-provincial city in eastern Liaoning Province of the Northeastern People's Republic of China ( Manchuri at its southernmost point.

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Seas KoreaKorea is a formerly unified country, situated on the Korean Peninsula in north East Asia adjacent to China in the west and Russia in the north. When World War II ended in 1945, the country was divided into two: the Republic of Korea ( South Korea) and the



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