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Fun fact 5 about Sea of Japan

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There are more than 800 species of aquatic plants and more than 3,500 animal species in the Sea of Japan.

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15th largest ocean in the world

The Sea of Japan (see § Names for other names) is the marginal sea between the Japanese archipelago, Sakhalin, the Korean Peninsula, and the mainland of the Russian Far East. The Japanese archipelago separates the sea from the Pacific Ocean.

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