The Japanese (or eastern) sea is part of the Pacific Ocean, from which it is separated by the islands of Japan and Sakhalin. Its waters wash the shores of the territories of Russia, Japan, North Korea and the Republic of Korea. The area of the Sea of Japan is about 1062 thousand square kilometers, and the greatest depth is 3742 meters.
Some interesting facts
The main ports of the Sea of Japan are Vladivostok, Nakhodka, Vostochny, Sovetskaya Gavan, Vanino, Aleksandrovsk-Sakhalinsky, Kholmsk, Niigata, Tsuruga, Maizuru, Wonsan, Hinnam, Chongjin and Busan, through which not only various cargoes are delivered, but fish are also caught. crabs, trepangs, algae, sea urchins, scallops and more.
The Sea of Japan has a temperate and monsoon climate, and its northern and western parts are much cooler than the southern and eastern parts. The Sea of Japan is also rich in typhoons caused by hurricane winds, which often hit the coast of countries washed by the sea.
The salinity of the Sea of Japan is slightly lower than that of other waters of the World Ocean - about 33, 7-34, 3%.
Which islands are located in the Sea of Japan
In total, over 3 thousand islands of various sizes are located on the territory of the Sea of Japan, most of which belong to the Japanese archipelago.
The main islands of the sea are Hokkaido (an area of 83.4 thousand square kilometers, on which 5.5 million people lived in 2010), Honshu (227.969 thousand square kilometers), Shikoku (18.8 thousand square kilometers and 4.41 million people as of 2005) and Kyushu (40.6 thousand square kilometers and 12 million people living on the island by the end of 2010).
The islands of the so-called Inland Sea of Japan, connecting with the Pacific Ocean through the four straits of Hayasui, Bungo, Kii and Naruto, include the following - Kasado, Hime, Heigun, Yashiro, Itsukushima (area of 30, 39 square kilometers and 2 thousand inhabitants), Nishinomi, Etajima, Kurahashi, Innoshima, Tesima, Sedo and Awaji (592, 17 thousand square kilometers and 157 thousand people as of 2005).
It is rather difficult to list the remaining 3 thousand relatively small islands in the Sea of Japan, but geographers divide them into several groups: - small islands along the island of Hokkaido; - along the island of Honshu; - Islands of the Korea Strait (connects the Japanese and East China Seas with a length of 324 kilometers); - islets of the East China Sea; - along the island of Shikoku; - along Kyushu; - the Ryukyu archipelago (another name is the Lyceum Islands, only 96 large and small) include several island subgroups - Osumi, Tokara, Amami, Okinawa, Sakishima, Yaeyama, Miyako, Senkaku, Daito and Borodin Islands.
There are also several artificial islands in the Sea of Japan. One of them - Dejima - was created in the shape of the century and from the 17th to the middle of the 19th century served as a port for Dutch ships.
