Bohai Bay

English

Alternative forms

• Bo Hai Bay, Pohai Bay

Etymology

Partial calque of Mandarin 渤海灣 / 渤海湾 (Bóhǎiwān).

Proper noun

Bohai Bay

1. One of the three major bays of the Bohai Sea, part of the territorial waters of China.
   • [2007, Tai P. Ng, “The Individual, Society and State”, in Chinese Culture, Western Culture: Why must we learn from each other?‎^[1] (Social Sciences), New York, London, Shanghai: iUniverse, Inc., →ISBN, →OCLC, page 198:

     The third emerging civilization in Neolithic China during the third millennium B.C. was the Dawenkou culture, with a long-lived tradition of millet farming, located in a broad area from Pohai Bay on the Shantung Peninsula, extended west into the eastern parts of the loess plain and south to the periphery of the Yangtze delta.]

   • 2010 September 7, Manuela Zoninsein, “Chinese Offshore Development Blows Past U.S.”, in The New York Times‎^[2], →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2022-04-17, ClimateWire‎^[3]:

     As of March this year, pipelines accommodating 17 MW were already installed between Donghai and a pilot wind project in Bohai Bay near Tianjin.

   • 2015 July 27, “China accepts group’s case against ConocoPhillips, CNOOC”, in AP News‎^[4], archived from the original on 14 June 2022‎^[5]:

     In 2012, ConocoPhillips and CNOOC reached a $160 million agreement with the Ministry of Agriculture to settle compensation claims related to the spill. ConocoPhillips also said it would help pay for social projects in Bohai Bay and reduce pollutants in the bay.

Translations

bay

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 渤海灣 / 渤海湾 (zh) (Bóhǎiwān)

• Japanese: please add this translation if you can

See also

• Bohai Sea

Further reading

• Saul B. Cohen, editor (2008), “Bohai or Bohai Bay”, in The Columbia Gazetteer of the World‎^[6], 2nd edition, volume 1, New York: Columbia University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 466, column 1