The Hanghai

(Yellow sea) is a half - closed shallow sea. Its boundaries are marked are marked by the mouth of the yalu River in the north and in the south by the northern edge of the east china sea and run from the north nook of the changjing ( Yangtze River) estuary to the southwestern tip of korea's cheju-do Island linked with the Bohai through the Bohai straits in the northwest it is adjacent to Liaong, Shandoing and Jianingsu provinces in the weast and to the korean peninsula in the northeast with a total area of 380000 square kilometres it is situated on the cheju- do . Island is 140 metres its average depth 44 meters. There are numerals sand bars off the coast of northern Jiangsu. Flowing into the Hunghai are the Huaihe River and its tributaries the Yalu River and the Daedong River of korea. The Huanghai (Yellow sea ) got its name from the facy the its water by yhe enormous amount of silt and mud carried by the Huanghe for the upwards of 600 years (A.D. 1194-1855)> The indented coasts along the Loading and shantung peninsulas and the Korean peninsula are studded with harbours and islands.