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Top Ten Important Seas in The World

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S.no Sea Name Location Coastline Countries
1 Arabian Sea Asia India, Iran, and Pakistan, Oman, Yemen, and Somalia.
Brunei, Cambodia, China, Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines
2 South China Sea Asia
Singapore, Taiwan, Thailand and Vietnam.
3 East China Sea Asia China, Japan, Taiwan and South Korea.
Albania, Algeria, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Cyprus,
Mediterranean Europe, Asia Egypt, France, Greece, Israel, Italy, Lebanon, Libya, Malta,
4
Sea and Africa Monaco, Montenegro, Morocco, Slovenia, Spain, Syria,
Tunisia, and Turkey.
5 Black Sea Europe Ukraine, Russia , Georgia , Turkey , Bulgaria and Romania.
6 The Caspian Sea Asia Iran, Turkmenistan, Kazakhstan, Azerbaijan, Russia
Asia and Saudi Arabia, Yemen, Egypt, Sudan,
7 Red Sea
Africa Eritrea and Djibouti
Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Italy, Montenegro,
8 Adriatic Sea Europe
and Slovenia.
9 Sea of Okhotsk Asia Japan and Russia
10 Andaman Sea Asia Myanmar and Thailand, Malaysia, Indonesia and India
1. Arabian Sea

The Arabian Sea is a region of the northern Indian

Ocean bounded on the north by Pakistan, Iran, and the
Gulf of Oman, on the west by the Gulf of Aden,
Guardafui Channel, and the Arabian Peninsula, on the
southeast by the Laccadive Sea, on the southwest by
the Somali Sea, and on the east by India.
The Gulf of Aden in the west connects the Arabian Sea
to the Red Sea through the strait of Bab-el-Mandeb,
and the Gulf of Oman is in the northwest, connecting it
to the Persian Gulf.

Location: Asia

Littoral states: India, Iran, and Pakistan, Oman, Yemen,

and Somalia.
2. South China Sea

South China Sea shares coastline with China,

Vietnam, Hainan, Malaysia, and the Philippines.
China is involved in disputes with many countries
here. Places in dispute are Paracel, Scarborough
Shoal, and The Spratly Islands.

Location: Asia

Littoral states:
Brunei, Cambodia, China, Indonesia, Malaysia, the
Philippines Singapore, Taiwan, Thailand and
Vietnam.
3. East China Sea

The East China Sea is a marginal sea of the Western

Pacific Ocean, located directly offshore from East
China. Towards the east of this sea are the Japanese
islands of Kyushu and the Ryukyu Islands, towards the
south of it is the South China Sea and to the west by
the Asian continent. The sea connects with the Sea of
Japan through the Korea Strait and opens to the north
into the Yellow Sea.

Location: Asia

Littoral states: China, Japan, Taiwan and South Korea.

4. Mediterranean Sea

The Mediterranean Sea is a sea connected to

the Atlantic Ocean, surrounded by
the Mediterranean Basin and almost completely
enclosed by land: on the north by Southern
Europe and Anatolia, on the south by North
Africa, and on the east by the Levant.

Location: Asia, Europe and Africa

Littoral states: Albania, Algeria, Bosnia and

Herzegovina, Croatia, Cyprus, Egypt, France,
Greece, Israel, Italy, Lebanon, Libya, Malta,
Monaco, Montenegro, Morocco, Slovenia, Spain,
Syria, Tunisia, and Turkey.
5. Black Sea

The Black Sea is located between Eastern

Europe and Western Asia. It is surrounded
by the Pontic, Caucasus, and Crimean
Mountains in the south, east and north
respectively. The Black Sea is also connected
to the Sea of Azov by the Strait of Kerch.
The Turkish straits system - the Dardanelles,
Bosporus and Marmara Sea - forms a
transitional zone between the
Mediterranean and the Black Sea.

Location: Asia, Europe

Littoral states: Russia, Ukraine, Georgia,

Turkey, Bulgaria and Romania.
6. Caspian Sea

The Caspian Sea is an

enclosed body of water
between Asia and Europe. It is
bordered by Iran,
Turkmenistan, Kazakhstan,
Azerbaijan, Russia.

Location: Asia

Littoral states: Iran,

Turkmenistan, Kazakhstan,
Azerbaijan, Russia
7. Red Sea

The Red Sea (Erythraean Sea) is

a seawater inlet of the Indian Ocean, lying
between Africa and Asia.
The connection to the ocean is in the south
through the Bab el Mandeb strait and the Gulf of
Aden.
To the north lie the Sinai Peninsula, the Gulf of
Aqaba, and the Gulf of Suez (leading to the Suez
Canal).
The sea is underlain by the Red Sea Rift which is
part of the Great Rift Valley.

Location: Asia and Africa

Littoral states: Saudi Arabia, Yemen, Egypt, Sudan,

Eritrea and Djibouti
8. Adriatic Sea

The Adriatic Sea is a part of the Mediterranean

Sea positioned between the eastern coastline of
Italy, and countries of the Balkan Peninsula, from
Slovenia, South through Croatia, Montenegro, and
to Albania. The Adriatic Sea is a body of water
separating the Italian Peninsula from the Balkan
Peninsula.

Location: Europe

Littoral states: Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina,

Croatia, Italy, Montenegro, and Slovenia.
9. Sea of Okhotsk

The Sea of Okhotsk is a marginal sea of the

western Pacific Ocean. It is located
between Russia’s Kamchatka Peninsula on the
east, the Kuril Islands on the
southeast, Japan’s island of Hokkaido on the
south, the island of Sakhalin along the west,
and a stretch of eastern Siberian coast along
the west and north.

Location: Asia

Littoral states: Russia and Japan

10. Andaman Sea

The Andaman Sea (historically also known as

the Burma Sea) is a marginal sea of north-eastern
Indian Ocean bounded by the coastlines of Myanmar
and Thailand along the Gulf of Martaban and west side
of the Malay Peninsula and separated from the Bay of
Bengal to its west by the Andaman Islands and
the Nicobar Islands. Its southernmost end is defined
by Breueh Island, an island just north of Sumatra, and
communicates with the Malacca Strait.

Location: Asia

Littoral states: India, Myanmar, Thailand, Malaysia and

Indonesia
Baltic Sea-
1. The Baltic Sea is an arm of the
Atlantic Ocean.
2. It is enclosed by Denmark,
Estonia, Finland, Germany, Latvia,
Lithuania, Poland, Russia,
Sweden and the North and
Central European Plain.
3. It is the largest expanse of
brackish water in the world.
Aral Sea-

1. It was a lake lying

between Kazakhstan in
the north and
Uzbekistan, in the south.
2. Aral Sea has been
steadily shrinking since
the 1960s after the
rivers that fed it were
diverted by Soviet
irrigation projects.
Dead Sea-

1. Also called the Salt

Sea.
2. Lake bordering
Jordan to the east,
and Palestine and
Israel to the west.
3. It Earth’s lowest
elevation on land.
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