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An object of the present invention is to provide a carbon sheet to be used suitably for a gas diffusion electrode, in which the carbon sheet does not worsen the electrical resistance in the through-plane direction, and can be prevented from the deflection into the gas flow channels provided in the bipolar plate, although such characteristics. A carbon sheet according to the present invention, provided to achieve the above-described object, is a carbon sheet including a first surface and a second surface located at the opposite side to the first surface; wherein, assuming that a specific section is equally divided into 20 portions in the thickness direction to form 20 layers, the degree of fiber orientation of the first surface side outermost layer of the 20 layers is 1.20 or more and 3.00 or less; and wherein, assuming that a region composed of consecutive layers that are included in the 20 layers, and satisfy specific conditions is a first surface side region, and that a region composed of a layer(s) included in the 20 layers but not included in the first surface side region is a second surface side region, the thickness of the first surface side region is 40% or less of the thickness of the whole carbon sheet, and a difference between the average degree of fiber orientation of the second surface side region and the degree of fiber orientation of the first surface side outermost layer is larger than 0.10.

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