World Sea

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List of seas

"Seas" redirects here. For other uses, seeSeas (disambiguation).

Baku on the Caspian Sea

The word sea can, aside from referring to theWorld Ocean, also mean a specific, much smaller body of water, such as the North Seaor the Red Sea. There is no sharp distinction between a sea in this sense and an ocean, though seas are generally smaller, and are often partly (as marginal seas) or wholly (asinland seas) bordered by land.^[1] However, theSargasso Sea has no coastline and lies within a circular current, the North Atlantic Gyre. It is a distinctive body of water with brownSargassum seaweed and calm blue water, very different from the rest of the Atlantic Ocean.^[2][3] Seas are generally larger than lakes, and contain salt water rather than freshwater, but some geographic entities known as "seas" are enclosed inland bodies of water that are not salty: for instance, theSea of Galilee is a freshwater lake.^[3][a] TheLaw of the Sea states that all of the ocean is "sea".^[7][8][9][b]

List of the world's seas

Atlantic Ocean	Arctic Ocean	Southern Ocean	Indian Ocean	Pacific Ocean	Landlocked Seas
Baltic Sea Archipelago Sea Bothnian Sea Central Baltic Sea Gulf of Bothnia Gulf of Finland Gulf of Riga Oresund Strait Sea of Åland Mediterranean Sea Aegean Sea Myrtoan Sea Sea of Crete Thracian Sea Adriatic Sea Alboran Sea Balearic Sea Catalan Sea Cilician Sea Gulf of Sidra Ionian Sea Levantine Sea Libyan Sea Ligurian Sea Sea of Sardinia Sea of Sicily Tyrrhenian Sea Others Argentine Sea Bay of Biscay Bay of Campeche Bay of Fundy Black Sea[11] Caribbean Sea Celtic Sea Chesapeake Bay Davis Strait Denmark Strait English Channel Gulf of Guinea Gulf of Maine Gulf of Mexico Gulf of St. Lawrence Gulf of Venezuela Irish Sea Labrador Sea Marmara Sea[11] North Sea Norwegian Sea Sargasso Sea Sea of Azov[11] Sea of the Hebrides Wadden Sea	Amundsen Gulf Baffin Bay Barents Sea Beaufort Sea Chukchi Sea East Siberian Sea Greenland Sea Hudson Bay James Bay Kara Sea Kara Strait Laptev Sea Lincoln Sea Prince Gustav Adolf Sea Pechora Sea Wandel Sea White Sea	Amundsen Sea Bass Strait Bellingshausen Sea Cooperation Sea* Cosmonauts Sea* Davis Sea D'Urville Sea Drake Passage Great Australian Bight Gulf St Vincent King Haakon VII Sea* Lazarev Sea* Mawson Sea* Riiser-Larsen Sea Ross Sea Scotia Sea Somov Sea* Spencer Gulf Weddell Sea	Andaman Sea Arabian Sea Bay of Bengal Gulf of Aden Gulf of Oman Laccadive Sea Mozambique Channel Persian Gulf Red Sea Timor Sea	Arafura Sea Bali Sea Banda Sea Bering Sea Bismarck Sea Bohai Sea Bohol Sea (also known as the Mindanao Sea) Camotes Sea Celebes Sea Ceram Sea Chilean Sea Sea of Chiloé Coral Sea East China Sea Flores Sea Gulf of Alaska Gulf of California (also known as the Sea of Cortés) Gulf of Carpentaria Gulf of Thailand Halmahera Sea Java Sea Koro Sea Mar de Grau Molucca Sea Philippine Sea Salish Sea Savu Sea Sea of Japan Sea of Okhotsk Seto Inland Sea Sibuyan Sea Solomon Sea South China Sea Sulu Sea Tasman Sea Visayan Sea Yellow Sea	Aral Sea Caspian Sea Dead Sea Salton Sea

• * Proposed names to the IHO 2002 draft. This draft was never approved by the IHO (or any other organization), and the 1953 IHO document (which does not contain these names which mostly originated from 1962 onward) remains currently in force.^[12]Leading geographic authorities and atlases do not use these names, including the 2014 10th edition World Atlas from the National Geographic Society and the 2014 12th edition of the Times Atlas of the World. But Soviet and Russian-issued state maps do include them.^[13][14]