{"id":18026,"date":"2025-04-21T10:18:17","date_gmt":"2025-04-21T04:48:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=18026"},"modified":"2025-05-28T13:16:52","modified_gmt":"2025-05-28T07:46:52","slug":"yellow-sea","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/yellow-sea\/","title":{"rendered":"Yellow Sea"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Yellow Sea Latest News<\/h2>\n<p>After aggressive posturing in the South China Sea, China is upping the ante in the Yellow Sea, following the building of a gigantic steel rig.<\/p>\n<h2>About Yellow Sea<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Also referred to in China as\u00a0<strong>Huang Hai<\/strong>\u00a0and in North and South Korea as the\u00a0<strong>West Sea<\/strong>, Yellow Sea is a\u00a0<strong>marginal sea of the Western Pacific Ocean.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>It is positioned to the\u00a0<strong>north of the East China Sea.\u00a0<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>It is\u00a0<strong>bordered by<\/strong>\u00a0mainland\u00a0<strong>China\u00a0<\/strong>in the north and west and by\u00a0<strong>North Korea<\/strong>\u00a0and\u00a0<strong>South Korea<\/strong>\u00a0in the east.<\/li>\n<li>The sea was named for the\u00a0<strong>yellowish sand particles originating from the Gobi Desert\u00a0<\/strong>that descend on the surface of the sea, thereby giving it a golden yellow color.<\/li>\n<li>It covers an area of approximately 400,000 sq.km.<\/li>\n<li>It measures about 960 km from north to south and some 700 km from its east to west.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>It is relatively shallow with an average depth of 180 to 394 feet (55 to 120 meters).\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>The sea is<strong>\u00a0one of the world\u2019s largest portions of continental shelf submerged in water.\u00a0<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Climate<\/strong>: It is characterized by very\u00a0<strong>cold, dry winters and wet, warm summers.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Major rivers<\/strong>\u00a0discharging directly into the Yellow Sea include the\u00a0<strong>Han, Yangtze, Datung, Yalu, Guang, and Sheyang.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Islands<\/strong>: The Yellow Sea is dotted with numerous islands, the largest of which include\u00a0<strong>Jeju Island (South Korea)<\/strong>,\u00a0<strong>Shandong Peninsula islands (China),<\/strong>\u00a0and\u00a0<strong>Ganghwa Island (South Korea).<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Leading port cities<\/strong>\u00a0include\u00a0<strong>Qingdao and Dalian in China<\/strong>,\u00a0<strong>Inch\u2019\u014fn in South Korea,<\/strong>\u00a0and\u00a0<strong>Namp\u2019o in North Korea<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Source<\/strong>:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.eurasiantimes.com\/china-brings-south-china-sea-style-gray\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">ET<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After aggressive posturing in the South China Sea, China is upping the ante in the Yellow Sea, following the building of a gigantic steel rig.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":45894,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[21,23,210],"class_list":{"0":"post-18026","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","8":"tag-prelims-pointers","9":"tag-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","10":"tag-yellow-sea","11":"no-featured-image-padding"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18026","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=18026"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18026\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/45894"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18026"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18026"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18026"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}