North China Sea

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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

Misused terminology as North China Sea does not exist. North China sea is wrongly used to refer to the Bohai Sea and the Yellow Sea

From the Sinitic 北海 (North Sea) formed in comparison to East China Sea and South China Sea.

Proper noun[edit]

North China Sea

  1. the Yellow Sea
    • 2014 March 31, Melanie Burton, Polly Yam, “NEWSMAKER-LME warehousing throws up roadblock for Charles Li”, in Reuters[1], archived from the original on 30 June 2022, Breaking City News:
      Li, a past executive at JP Morgan Chase and Merrill Lynch’s China operations who has worked for several law firms in New York was blooded in commodities as a young man, working in the offshore oil fields of the North China sea prior to college.

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