World Heritage List : New
UNESCO recently inscribed China’s Migratory Bird Sanctuaries along the Yellow Sea-Bohai Gulf (Phase II) to its World Heritage List.
- Bohai Gulf is the innermost gulf of the Yellow Seaon the coast of Northeastern and North China.
- It is sometimes called Bohai Sea, or Bo Hai for short; in earlier times it was called the Gulf of Chili or the Gulf of Pechili.
- It is approximately 78,000 sq.km in area, and its proximity to Beijing, the capital of China, makes it one of the busiest seaways in the world.
- The Bohai Gulf is enclosed by the Liaodong Peninsula(northeast) and the Shandong Peninsula (south).
- Among the most important cities on the Bohai Gulf are Dalian and Tianjin; its shores form three of the most famous bays in the country: Liaodong Bay, Bohai Bay, and Laizhou Bay.
- The Yellow River, China’s second longest river, discharges into the gulf.
- There are both onshore and offshore petroleum deposits, and several oil refineries are located there as well as other industries.
- Yellow Sea is a marginal sea of the western Pacific Ocean
- It is situated between mainland China to the west and north, the Korean Peninsula to the east, and the Shandong Peninsula and Liaodong Peninsula to the south.
- It connects with the Bohai Sea to the northwest.
