East Sea Explained
East Sea or Eastern Sea may refer to:
- East China Sea, a marginal sea east of China, where it is called Dōnghǎi (Chinese: 东海/Chinese: 東海) in Chinese, meaning "East Sea"
- South China Sea, a marginal sea south of China and east and south of Indochina, called Biển Đông in Vietnamese, meaning "East Sea"
- Sea of Japan, a marginal sea between the Korean Peninsula, Russia and the Japanese archipelago, called Donghae (; East Sea) in South Korea, and Chosŏn Tonghae (; Korean East Sea) in North Korea.
- Baltic Sea, called "East Sea" in various languages
- Dead Sea, a salt lake east of Israel, as used in the Bible (Joel 2:20; Ezek. 47:18)
- Mare Orientale, Latin for "Eastern Sea", on the Moon
- Atlantic Ocean, also referred to as the East Sea or Eastern Sea in poetry and other uses in North America
- Pacific Ocean, called the East Sea in poetry and other uses from Australia, New Zealand, China and Japan
- Indian Ocean, earlier called the "Eastern Ocean" or "Eastern Sea"
- Eastern Sea, the eastern ocean of Middle-earth in J. R. R. Tolkien's fiction
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