East China Sea
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| East China Sea | |
|---|---|
| Chinese name | |
| Pinyin | Dōng Hǎi or Zhōngguó Dōng Hǎi |
| Wade-Giles | Tung Hai or Chung-kuo Tung Hai |
| Simplified Chinese | 东海 or 中国东海 |
| Traditional Chinese | 東海 or 中國東海 |
| Japanese name | |
| Romaji | Higashi Shina Kai |
| Kanji | 東シナ海 (東支那海) |
| Korean name | |
| Hangul | 동중국해 or 남해 |
| Hanja | 東中國海 or 南海 |
| Revised Romanization | Dongjungguk Hae or Nam Hae |
| McCune-Reischauer | Tongjungguk Hae or Nam Hae |
The East China Sea is a marginal sea and part of the Pacific Ocean. It covers an area of 1,249,000 km². In China, the sea is called the East Sea. In Korea, South Sea sometimes refers to this entire sea, but more often denotes only the area near Korea's southern coast.
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Geography
The East China Sea is bounded on the East by the Kyushu and Ryukyu islands, on the South by Taiwan, and on the West by Mainland China. It is connected with the South China Sea by the Taiwan Strait and with the Sea of Japan by the Korea Strait; it opens in the North to the Yellow Sea.
Territories with borders on the sea (clockwise from north) include: South Korea, Japan, Taiwan, and Mainland China.
Rivers
The Yangtze River (Chang Jiang) is the largest river flowing into the East China Sea.
Resources
The People's Republic of China (PRC) recently discovered that there exists an undersea natural gas field in the East China Sea, part of the field lies within the Chinese EEZ while the remaining lies on the disputed EEZ between Japan and the PRC. The PRC has set up the Chunxiao gas field in its own EEZ (located 4 km inside the Chinese side of the EEZ boundary claimed by Japan) to tap up the natural gas. Japan also seeks a share in the natural gas resource because part of the field lies on the disputed EEZ.
Territorial Dispute
The East China Sea is a place of territorial disputes between the PRC and Japan, notably for undersea natural gas resources. Under the United Nation's Law of the Sea, PRC claims the disputed ocean territory as its own Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ) due to its being part of PRC's natural extension of its continental shelf, while Japan claims the disputed ocean territory as its own EEZ because it is within 200 nautical miles (370 km) from Japan's coast.
- See also: Senkaku Islands, Xihu Trough, Geography of China
External links
- Kosuke Takahashi. Gas and oil rivalry in the East China Sea Asia Times Online. July 27, 2004.
- Chinese submarine enters Japanese waters. Wikinews. November 18, 2004. Retrieved March 7, 2006.
- Oil and gas in troubled waters The Economist. October 6, 2005.
- J Sean Curtin. Stakes rise in Japan, China gas dispute Asia Times Online. October 19, 2005.ca:Mar de la Xina Oriental
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