Bohai Sea

• Pohai Sea

From Mandarin 渤海 (Bó Hǎi) + sea.

Bohai Sea

1. (geography) A marginal sea on the east coast of China.
   • 2009 June 22, “Oil slicks poisoning China's Bohai Sea - official”, in Emma Graham-Harrison, editor, Reuters‎, archived from the original on 14 May 2022, Oil Report:

     Bohai Sea is on the northeastern coast of China, bounded by Liaodong and Shandong Peninsulas, so pollution there is slow to wash out to the ocean, exacerbating damage to local marine life.

   • 2019 August 22, Perlez, Jane, “At Mao’s Beach, China’s Leaders Still Make History as Lifeguards Hide From the Sun”, in The New York Times‎, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2019-08-22, Asia Pacific‎:

     Then there is the question of the water quality in the Bohai Sea, a large basin that swirls into Beidaihe.
     “The water quality is bad,” said Prof. Wang Yamin, of Shandong University Marine College. Runoffs from chemical fertilizer plants have spoiled the sea in the last 30 or so years as China’s economy has grown, he said.

• (dated) Gulf of Chihli

• Bohai Bay