Asan Bay is a South Korean bay in the

Yellow Sea The Yellow Sea, also known as the North Sea, is a marginal sea of the Western Pacific Ocean located between mainland China and the Korean Peninsula, and can be considered the northwestern part of the East China Sea. Names It is one of four ...

. Named after the city of

Asan Asan (; ) is a Administrative divisions of South Korea, city in South Chungcheong Province, South Korea. It borders the Seoul Capital Area to the north. Asan has a population of approximately 400,000. Asan is known for its many hot springs an ...

immediately to its south, it lies at the mouth of several rivers and separates the provinces of

Gyeonggi-do Gyeonggi Province (, ) is the most populous administrative divisions of South Korea, province in South Korea. Seoul, the nation's largest city and capital, is in the heart of the area but has been separately administered as a list of provinc ...

and

Chungcheongnam-do South Chungcheong Province (), informally called Chungnam, is a province of South Korea in the Hoseo region in the southwest of the Korean Peninsula. South Chungcheong borders the provinces of Gyeonggi to the north, North Chungcheong, Sejong ...

. The boundary between the bay and the rest of the Yellow Sea is vague, as there are several scattered islands. Archived on 31 August 2021. Retrieved 25 July 2023

Rivers

The rivers which meet the sea at Asan Bay are as follow: *Jaancheon (at Hwaseong Lake) *Barancheon (at Namyang Lake) *Anseongcheon (at Asan Lake) *Gokgyocheon (at Sapgyo Lake) *Sapgyocheon (at Sapgyo Lake) *Namwoncheon (at Sapgyo Lake)

References

Bays of South Korea Landforms of South Chungcheong Province Landforms of Gyeonggi Province Bodies of water of the Yellow Sea {{Gyeonggi-geo-stub