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A sea (pronounced see) is a large expanse of saline water connected with an ocean. The term is also used for large, usually saline, lakes that lack a natural outlet, such as the Caspian Sea and the Dead Sea. The Sea of Galilee is a small freshwater lake with a natural outlet, but the term was applied to it anyway. The term is used colloquially as synonymous with ocean, as in the tropical sea or down to the sea shore, or even sea water referring to water of the ocean.

Many seas are marginal seas.

1 List of seas, divided by ocean

1.1 Pacific Ocean

• Bering Sea
• Gulf of Alaska
• Sea of Cortez (aka Gulf of California)
• Sea of Okhotsk
• Sea of JapanThe Sea of Japan (in South Korea called East Sea, in China called Japan Sea) is a marginal sea of the western Pacific Ocean, bound by the Japanese islands of Hokkaido, Honshu and Kyushu and Sakhalin island to the east, and the Korean peninsula and Russia
• Seto Inland Sea
• East China SeaThe East China Sea (Chinese: Dong Hi , literal meaning: East Sea is a marginal sea and part of the Pacific Ocean, surrounded by Mainland China, Japan, South Korea and Taiwan. Its surface area is around 1,200,000 km². In South Korea, the sea is sometimes c
• South China SeaThe South China Sea is a marginal sea, part of the Pacific Ocean, encompassing an area from Singapore to the Strait of Taiwan of around 3,500,000 km². The minute South China Sea Islands, collectively an archipelago, number in the hundreds. A number of nat
• Sulu SeaThe Sulu Sea is a large sea in the southwestern area of the Philippines. It is separated from the South China Sea in the northeast by Palawan, and from the Celebes Sea in the southeast by the Sulu Archipelago. Borneo is found to the southwest and Visayas
• Celebes SeaMaitum,_Sarangani The Celebes Sea of the western Pacific Ocean, bordered on the north by the Sulu Archipelago and Sulu Sea and Mindanao Island of the Philippines, on the east by the Sangi Islands chain, on the south by Sulawesi, and on the west by Borneo.
• Bohol SeaThe Bohol Sea also called the Mindanao Sea is located between Visayas and Mindanao in the Philippines. It lies south of Bohol and Leyte and north of Mindanao. Siquijor and Camiguin are its two major islands. The major cities on the sea are Cagayan de Oro (aka Mindanao Sea)
• Philippine SeaThe Philippine Sea is a part of the western Pacific Ocean bordered by the Philippines and Taiwan to the west, Japan to the north, the Marianas to the east and Palau to the south. The Philippine Plate forms the floor of this sea and it subducts under the E
• Flores Sea
• Banda Sea
• Arafura Sea
• Timor Sea
• Tasman Sea
• Yellow Sea
• Coral Sea