List of seas on Earth
[2] In many cases it is a matter of tradition for a body of water to be named a sea or a bay, etc., therefore all these types are listed here.There are several terms used for bulges of ocean that result from indentations of land, which overlap in definition, and which are not consistently differentiated:[12] Many features could be considered to be more than one of these, and all of these terms are used in place names inconsistently; especially bays, gulfs, and bights, which can be very large or very small.This list includes large areas of water no matter the term used in the name.The largest terrestrial seas, in decreasing order of area, are: Seas may be considered marginal between ocean and land, or between oceans in which case they may be treated as marginal parts of either.[14][15] (coast-wise from north to south) (from east to west) While all other seas in the world are defined at least in part by land boundaries, there is only one sea which is defined only by ocean currents:[20] Entities called "seas" which are not divisions of the World Ocean are not included in this list.
Seas (disambiguation)International Hydrographic OrganizationbightsstraitsOcean gyresBorders of the oceansSargasso Seaislandsarchipelagospeninsulassubmarine ridgesLaw of the SeaTributaryEstuaryStraitChannelglacierPolynyaplace namesPhilippine SeaCoral SeaAmerican Mediterranean SeaArabian SeaSouth China SeaWeddell SeaCaribbean SeaMediterranean SeaGulf of GuineaTasman SeaBay of BengalBering SeaSea of OkhotskGulf of MexicoGulf of AlaskaBarents SeaNorwegian SeaEast China SeaHudson BayGreenland SeaSomov SeaMar de GrauRiiser-Larsen SeaSea of JapanArgentine SeaEast Siberian SeaLazarev SeaKara SeaScotia SeaLabrador SeaAndaman SeaLaccadive SeaIrminger SeaSolomon SeaMozambique ChannelCosmonauts SeaBanda SeaBaffin BayLaptev SeaArafura SeaRoss SeaChukchi SeaTimor SeaNorth SeaBellingshausen SeaBeaufort SeaRed SeaBlack SeaGulf of AdenYellow SeaBaltic SeaCaspian SeaLibyan SeaMawson SeaLevantine SeaJava SeaGulf of ThailandCeltic SeaGulf of CarpentariaCelebes SeaTyrrhenian SeaSulu SeaCooperation SeaPersian GulfFlores SeaGulf of St. LawrenceBay of BiscayAegean SeaGulf of AnadyrMolucca SeaOman SeaIonian SeaGulf of CaliforniaBalearic SeaAdriatic SeaKara StraitPechora SeaWhite SeaQueen Victoria SeaWandel SeaLincoln SeaThe Northwest PassagesPrince Gustaf Adolf SeaAmundsen GulfFoxe BasinBowman BayWager BayRoes Welcome SoundFoxe ChannelBay of Gods MercyHudson StraitUngava BayNative BayEvans StraitFisher StraitJames BayArctic OceanAegeanAdriaticIonianTyrrhenianmarginal seasKattegatSkagerrakWadden SeaDogger BankGulf of Bothnia