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The Largest Ocean In The World

The sea is a vast collection of salt water and is associated with the ocean. Is a collection of salty sea water are very numerous and widespread in the earth's surface that separates or connects a continent to continent and an island with another island.

Sea water is a mixture of 96.5% pure water and 3.5% other materials such as salts, dissolved gases, organic materials and insoluble particles. The main physical properties of sea water are determined by the 96.5% pure water.

⅔ region of the earth is water and the biggest one is the sea, here is a list of the largest ocean in the world.
  • Bay Of Bengal

Bay of Bengal is a bay in the world, forming a portion northeast Ocean Hindi. Its shape resembles a triangle and referring to Bangladesh, a country of West Bengal and Tamil Nadu state in India in the east, Sri Lanka, western Burma (Myanmar) and the Andaman and Nicobar Islands in the east..

Bay of Bengal has the breadth of 2,172,000 km². A number of major rivers such as - Padma (derived from the Ganges), Meghna (derived from the Brahmaputra), Jamuna (a branch of the Brahmaputra), Ayeyarwady, Godavari, Mahanadi, Krishna and Kaveri - flow into the Bay of Bengal. Among important ports are Cuddalore, Ennore, Chennai, Karaikal, Pondicherry, Tuticorin, Kakinada, Machilipatnam, Vishakhapatnam, Paradip, Kolkata, Mongla, Chittagong and Yangon.

Bay of Bengal occupies the tenth place as the world's largest ocean. Bay of Bengal is a bay located in the north eastern part of the Indian Ocean. The bay is located just west of the Malay Peninsula and eastern India. Gulf looks like a triangle. It is called the Bay of Bengal as there are countries in the north Indian state of West Bengal and Bangladesh.
  • Bering Sea

Bering Sea is part of the Pacific Ocean. Bering Sea consists of water in the basin, which then rises through a narrow slope into the shallower water above the continent

Bering Sea is separated from the Gulf of Alaska by the Alaska Peninsula. Bering Sea covers more than 2,000,000 km², is bordered on the east and northeast by Alaska, in the west to Siberia and the Kamchatka Peninsula, on the south by the Alaska Peninsula and the Aleutian Islands and in the most north by the Bering Strait, which separates the Bering Sea of the Arctic Ocean and the Chukchi Sea. Bristol Bay is part of the Bering Sea which separates the Alaska Peninsula from mainland Alaska. Bering Sea is derived from the name of Vitus Bering, a Danish navigator who worked at Russia, which in 1728 was the first European to systematically explore, sailing from the Pacific Ocean into the Arctic Ocean. Bering Sea ecosystem includes resources within the jurisdiction of the United States and Russia, as well as international waters in the 'Donut Hole'. Interaction between currents, sea ice, and the weather made for a strong and productive ecosystem.
  • Tasman Sea

Tasman Sea is a measure of the largest sea between Australia and New Zealand, has a range of 2000 kilometres (1250 miles). Located in the south western Pacific Ocean. The sea was discovered by the Dutch inventor, Abel Janszoon Tasman, the first recorded European record for a visit to New Zealand and Tasmania.
  • Mediterranean Sea

Mediterranean sea, sometimes called the Mediterranean Sea is an intercontinental sea situated between Europe to the north, in southern Africa and Asia in the east, covers an area of 2.5 million km².

In the past, the sea is a busy traffic lane, allowing trade and cultural exchange between the people of Egypt, Ancient Greece, Ancient Rome and the Middle East. Mediterranean history is important to understanding the origin and development of Western civilization.
  • Caribbean Sea

Caribbean Sea is a tropical sea adjacent to the Atlantic Ocean and the southeast Gulf of Mexico. He covers the whole slab of the Caribbean and on the south by Venezuela, Colombia, and Panama, in the west bounded by Costa Rica, Nicaragua, Honduras, Guatemala, Belize, and the Yucatan peninsula of Mexico, on the north by the islands of the Greater Antilles, Cuba, Hispaniola, Jamaica, and Puerto Rico, and on the east by the Lesser Antilles.

Caribbean Sea is one of the largest sea and has an area of approximately 2.754 million square kilometres (1.063 million square miles). The sea's deepest point is the Cayman Trough, between Cuba and Jamaica, with a depth of 7.500 m (250,000 feet) below sea level.
  • Weddell Sea

Weddell Sea is part of the Southern Ocean. Easternmost point is Cape Norvegia at Princess Martha Coast, Queen Maud Land. To the east of Cape Norvegia is King Haakon VII Sea. Most of the southern part of the sea, up to Elephant Island, is permanent ice, Filchner-Ronne Ice Mountain. Sea contained in two overlapping claims, the Antarctic region of Argentina and the United Kingdom (British Antarctic Territory Kingdom), and also being partly in the Chilean territorial claims. The most wide Weddell Sea is about 2,000 km across, and in an area that covers approximately 2.8 million km².

The sea was so named in honour of the British sailor James Weddell who came to this sea in 1823 as far as 74 ° S. In the same year Captain Benjamin Morrell sealing States claimed to have seen some of the land the actual limits of 10-12 ° east northeast. He called the New South Greenland, but its existence is not proven when the sea is more fully explored in the early 20th century.
  • South China Sea

South China Sea is the sea edge, part of the Pacific Ocean, covering an area from Singapore to the Strait of Taiwan around 3,500,000 km². Is the largest sea body after the five oceans. South China Sea Islands form an archipelago of hundreds. This sea commonly referred to as the South Sea only in mainland China.

A number of countries, particularly the Philippines call Luzon Sea, objected to the name "South China Sea", because as if the area was controlled by the Chinese.
  • Arabian Sea

Arabian Sea is a part of the Indian Ocean bounded by India in the eastern province of Baluchistan and Sindh (Pakistan) in the north, and the Arabian Peninsula in the west. This sea into the Gulf of Aden that connects the Red Sea through the Bab-el-Mandeb and the Gulf of Oman that connects the Persian Gulf.

The countries bordering the Arabian Sea are India, Pakistan, Iran, Oman, Yemen, Somalia and the Maldives.

The maximum width of the Arabian Sea is approximately 2400 km and a depth of 4652 m. Indus River, the largest river in Pakistan, is the largest river that empties directly into the sea. Arabian Sea coast in central India known as Konkan coast, and in the south called the Malabar Coast.

Arabian Sea has two main branches: the Gulf of Aden in the southwest, connects the Red Sea to the Strait of Bab-el-Mandeb; as well as the Gulf of Cambay and the Gulf coast of Kutch in India. Relatively little islands, including Socotra, off the coast of Africa, and Lakshadweep, offshore India.
  • Coral Sea

Coral Sea or the Coral Sea Islands Territory is an archipelago located in northeast Queensland, Australia. Kebanyakkannya The islands are small and uninhabited. The only inhabited island is Willis Island. The region is an area of 780,000 km2 that extends from the eastern and southern outer edge of the Great Barrier Reef including Heralds Beacon Island, Coral Osprey, Willis Group as well as 15 groups of islands and coral reefs others.
  • Philippine Sea

Philippine Sea is located mostly in the western Pacific Ocean bordered by the Philippines and Taiwan in the west, Japan to the north, Mariana in the east, and Palau in the South.

In 1944 the main site of the Philippine Sea Hunt War, World War II, a naval war after Japan and the United States, the United States finally won.
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