湾岸|わんがんwangan[0]heiban (flat)

1. noungulf coast; bay coast
   湾岸わんがん諸国しょこくは常つねに戦争せんそうの脅威きょういにさらされている。↗

   Gulf nations are constantly menaced by war.

• Related浦うらWrittenArchaic, literary word for a small bay or inlet and the shore beside it; survives mostly in place names like 「田子の浦」. 「湾岸」 is the modern term.
• Related海浜かいひんWrittenA written, formal word for the seashore and its beach, as in 「海浜公園」; 「湾岸」 refers specifically to the coast along a bay.
• Related浦辺うらべWrittenArchaic word for the seashore or coastal area, found mainly in waka poetry; rare today, while 「湾岸」 is a modern geographic term.

Use 「湾岸」 for the coastal zone along a bay, as in 「湾岸地域」 and 「湾岸戦争」; for the sandy seashore use 「海浜」, and 「浦」 is the old, elegant word for a small bay and its shore.

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1. 湾わん内ないの沿岸えんがん。