Amur Bay
| Amur Bay | ||
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| Waters | Japanese sea | |
| Land mass | East asia | |
| Geographical location | 43 ° 6 ′ N , 131 ° 44 ′ E | |
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| width | 20 km | |
| depth | 65 km | |
| Greatest water depth | 20 m | |
| Tributaries | Suifun | |
 Muravyov Amurski Peninsula with Amur Bay (left), Landsat 7 satellite image |
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The Amur Bay ( Russian Амурский залив ) is a bay in the Sea of Japan .
The 65 kilometer long and nine to 20 kilometer wide bay is located west of Vladivostok in the northwest of Peter the Great Bay .
The depth of the Amur Bay, into which the Suifun (in Russian Rasdolnaja since the 1970s ) flows, is up to 20 meters. The bay has no geographical connection with the Amur River , but was named after the Amur River when the region became part of the Russian Empire in the 19th century.
In the east the bay borders on the Muravjow-Amurski peninsula with Vladivostok, which separates it from the Ussuri Bay , and in the northeast lies the city of Artyom . In the northwest and west, the bay borders on the Nadeschdinski and Chassan districts .