Black sea
The Black Sea is an inland sea bounded by southeastern Europe, the Caucasus and the Anatolian peninsula (Turkey) and is ultimately connected to the Atlantic Ocean via the Mediterranean and Aegean Seas and various straits. The Bosporus strait connects it to the Sea of Marmara, and the strait of the Dardanelles connects it to the Aegean Sea region of the Mediterranean. These waters separate eastern Europe and western Asia.
The Black Sea has an area of 436,400 km? (168,495 sq mi), a maximum depth of 2,212 m (7,257 ft), and a volume of 547,000 km? (133,500 cu mi). The Black Sea forms in an east-west trending elliptical depression which lies between Bulgaria, Georgia, Romania, Russia, Turkey, and Ukraine.
The Black Sea has a positive water balance, which results in a net outflow of water 300km? per year through the Bosphorus into the Aegean Sea (part of the Mediterranean Sea). Mediterranean water flows into the Black Sea as part of a 2-way hydrological exchange. The Black Sea outflow is less saline and cool, therefore floats over the warm, relatively more saline Mediterranean inflow. The Black Sea also receives river water from large Eurasian fluvial systems to the north of the Sea, of which the Don, Dnieper and Danube are the most significant.
In the years following the end of the Cold War, the popularity of the Black Sea as a tourist destination has been steadily increasing, particularly in Romania. Overall, tourism at Black Sea resorts has become one of the region's growth industries. The following is a list of well-known Black Sea resorts: Ahtopol, Tsarevo, Kiten, Primorsko, Sozopol, Duni, Burgas, Pomorie, Nessebar, Sunny beach, St.Vlas, Elenite, Obzor, Varna, Riviera, St.Constantine and Helena, Golden Sands, Albena, Balchik and etc.
Black sea has few islands. Five of them are in Bulgaria teritory: Snake island, St. Anastacia, St. Ivan, St. Kirik, St.Peter.
The Black Sea has an area of 436,400 km? (168,495 sq mi), a maximum depth of 2,212 m (7,257 ft), and a volume of 547,000 km? (133,500 cu mi). The Black Sea forms in an east-west trending elliptical depression which lies between Bulgaria, Georgia, Romania, Russia, Turkey, and Ukraine.
The Black Sea has a positive water balance, which results in a net outflow of water 300km? per year through the Bosphorus into the Aegean Sea (part of the Mediterranean Sea). Mediterranean water flows into the Black Sea as part of a 2-way hydrological exchange. The Black Sea outflow is less saline and cool, therefore floats over the warm, relatively more saline Mediterranean inflow. The Black Sea also receives river water from large Eurasian fluvial systems to the north of the Sea, of which the Don, Dnieper and Danube are the most significant.
In the years following the end of the Cold War, the popularity of the Black Sea as a tourist destination has been steadily increasing, particularly in Romania. Overall, tourism at Black Sea resorts has become one of the region's growth industries. The following is a list of well-known Black Sea resorts: Ahtopol, Tsarevo, Kiten, Primorsko, Sozopol, Duni, Burgas, Pomorie, Nessebar, Sunny beach, St.Vlas, Elenite, Obzor, Varna, Riviera, St.Constantine and Helena, Golden Sands, Albena, Balchik and etc.
Black sea has few islands. Five of them are in Bulgaria teritory: Snake island, St. Anastacia, St. Ivan, St. Kirik, St.Peter.
