Nice small map titled Mer jaune, from wood engraving with fine detail and clear impression. Overall size approx. 17.5 x 16 cm, image size approx. 11 x 9 cm. From La Nouvelle Géographie universelle, la terre et les hommes, 19 vol. (1875-94), great work of Elisee Reclus. Cartographer is Charles Perron.

Yellow Sea

Chinese Huang Hai, Korean Hwanghae

large inlet of the western Pacific Ocean lying between mainland China on the  west and north and the Korean peninsula on the east. It is situated to the north  of the East China Sea, which it bounds on a line running from the mouth of the  Yangtze River (Chiang Jiang) to Cheju Island off South Korea. It measures about  600 miles (960 km) from north to south and about 435 miles (700 km) from east to  west. In the northwest part of the sea, northwest of a line between the Liaodong  Peninsula to the north and the Shandong Peninsula to the south, is the Bo Hai  (Gulf of Chihli). The area of the Yellow Sea proper (excluding the Bo Hai) is  about 146,700 square miles (380,000 square km); its mean depth is 144 feet (44  metres), and its maximum depth is some 500 feet (152 metres).