Pohai Sea

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Pohai Sea

  1. Alternative form of Bohai Sea
    • 1964, Yu-ti (任育地) Jen, “Land and People”, in 中国地理概述 [A Concise Geography of China]‎[1], Peking: Foreign Languages Press, →OCLC, →OL, page 4:
      The entire Pohai Sea and Chiungchow Straits are China’s inland seas.
    • 2009, Bill Porter, “No Home”, in Zen Baggage: A Pilgrimage to China[2], Counterpoint Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 79:
      The conductress woke me as we came out of the Taihang Mountains onto the endless expanse of the Yellow River floodplain (which makes up about two-thirds of the North China Plain):from Beijing in the north to Loyang in the south, from the Taihang Mountains in the west to the Pohai Sea in the east, nothing but mud.