Seas

thumb|Mediterranean Sea|The Mediterranean Sea, an enclosed sea flowing into the [[Atlantic Ocean]] A sea is a large body of salt water. There are particular seas and the sea. The sea commonly refers to the ocean, the interconnected body of seawaters that spans most of Earth. Particular seas are either marginal seas, second-order sections of the oceanic sea (e.g. the Mediterranean Sea), or certain large, nearly landlocked bodies of water.

thumb|Ancient Carthage from about 323 BCE, an example of a thalassocracy.

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four bodies of water that metaphorically made up the boundaries of ancient China: Qinghai Lake (west), East China Sea (east), Lake Baikal (north) and South China Sea (south)

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