{"id":13306,"date":"2023-07-22T05:00:29","date_gmt":"2023-07-21T23:30:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=13306"},"modified":"2025-04-02T03:18:47","modified_gmt":"2025-04-01T21:48:47","slug":"key-facts-about-yellow-sea","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/key-facts-about-yellow-sea\/","title":{"rendered":"Key facts about Yellow Sea"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><strong>About Yellow Sea:<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>It is a <strong>marginal sea of the western Pacific Ocean.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Location:<\/strong>\n<ul>\n<li>The Yellow Sea is <strong>situated between mainland China to the west and north<\/strong>, the <strong>Korean Peninsula to the east<\/strong>, and the <strong>Shandong Peninsula and Liaodong Peninsula to the south.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>It <strong>connects with the Bohai Sea to the northwest<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><strong>Size<\/strong>: Also referred to in China as Huang Hai and in North and South Korea as the West Sea, the Yellow Sea is <strong>870 kilometres long and 556 kilometres wide.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Depth<\/strong>: It is <strong>one of the largest shallow areas<\/strong> <strong>of continental shelf<\/strong> in the world with an <strong>average depth of 44 metres<\/strong> and a <strong>maximum depth of 152 metres<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Inflow<\/strong>: Several major rivers, including the <strong>Yellow River and the Yangtze River<\/strong>, discharge into the Yellow Sea, carrying significant amounts of sediment and nutrients.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Islands<\/strong>: The Yellow Sea is dotted with numerous islands, the largest of which include <strong>Jeju Island (South Korea<\/strong>), <strong>Shandong Peninsula islands (China<\/strong>), and <strong>Ganghwa Island (South Korea).<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Climate<\/strong>: The climate is characterized by <strong>very cold, dry winters and wet, warm summers.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Currents<\/strong>:\n<ul>\n<li>The <strong>warm current of the Yellow Sea is a part of the Tsushima Current<\/strong>, which <strong>diverges near the western part of the Japanese island of Kyushu<\/strong> and <strong>flows<\/strong> at less than 0.5 mile (0.8 km) per hour northward <strong>into the middle of the sea.\u00a0<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Along the continental coasts<\/strong>, <strong>southward-flowing currents prevail<\/strong>, <strong>which strengthen markedly in the winter monsoon period<\/strong>, when the water is cold, turbid, and <strong>of low salinity.<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3>Q1)\u00a0What is the Bohai Sea?<\/h3>\n<p>Bohai Sea is a semi-enclosed inland sea located in northeastern China. It is surrounded by the Liaodong Peninsula to the west, the Shandong Peninsula to the south, and the eastern coast of Hebei province to the north. The Bohai Sea connects to the Yellow Sea to the east through the Bohai Strait.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:<\/strong>\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/theprint.in\/world\/north-korea-fires-several-cruise-missiles-into-yellow-sea-says-seoul\/1681046\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><u>North Korea fires several cruise missiles into Yellow Sea, says Seoul<\/u><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Yellow Sea is a marginal sea of the western Pacific Ocean.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":13307,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-13306","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","8":"no-featured-image-padding"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13306","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13306"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13306\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13307"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13306"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13306"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13306"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}