Chinese sea

The Chinese Sea was a term used primarily during the Wilhelminism era . The sea lies between Borneo , India , the Japanese Kyushu Islands, the Malay Peninsula , North Korea , the Philippine islands of Luzon and Palawan , South Korea and the east and south coast of the People's Republic of China .

The China Sea combines the following marginal seas of the Pacific Ocean , which are now regarded as independent :

• the Yellow Sea (with its northern foothills Gulf of Bohai and Korea Bay ),
• the East China Sea and
• the South China Sea .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ China Sea . In: Meyers Großes Konversations-Lexikon . tape  4 . Leipzig 1906, p. 59 ( zeno.org ).
2. ↑ China Sea . In: Brockhaus' Kleines Konversations-Lexikon . 5th edition. tape  1 . Leipzig 1911, p. 336 ( zeno.org ).
3. ^ Angela Sendlinger: New universal lexicon in color: over 50,000 keywords . Compact-Verlag, 2008, ISBN 978-3-8174-6638-2 ( google.de [accessed December 28, 2017]).