List of seas

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"Seas" redirects here. For other uses, see Seas (disambiguation).
Baku on the Caspian Sea

The word sea can, aside from referring to the World Ocean, also mean a specific, much smaller body of water, such as the North Sea or 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 (as inland seas) bordered by land.[1] However, the Sargasso Sea has no coastline and lies within a circular current, the North Atlantic Gyre. It is a distinctive body of water with brown Sargassum 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, the Sea of Galilee is a freshwater lake.[3][lower-alpha 1] The Law of the Sea states that all of the ocean is "sea".[7][8][9][lower-alpha 2]

List of the world's seas
Atlantic Ocean Arctic Ocean Southern Ocean Indian Ocean Pacific Ocean Landlocked Seas
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  • * 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]

See also

References

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Lists of bodies of water
List of... Lists of... Category
Lists of rivers Category:Lists of rivers
List of lakes Lists of lakes Category:Lists of lakes
List of waterways Lists of waterways
List of reservoirs and dams Lists of reservoirs and dams Category:Lists of dams
Lists of canals Category:Lists of canals
List of straits
List of seas
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  2. ↑ Stow, 2004. p. 90
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  11. ↑ 11.0 11.1 11.2 often treated as part of Mediterranean Sea
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