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Mediterranean Sea

Information

Area

2 500 000 km²

Location

35 ° 0 ′ 0 ″ N 18 ° 0 ′ 0 ″ E

The Mediterranean Sea is an almost completely enclosed sea located south of theEurope, north ofAfrica and west ofAsia.

Understand

It covers approximately 2.51 million square kilometers.

It is long, from west to east, from 3 860 km and measure 1 600 km from North to south. Its ribs total approximately 46 000 km.

It opens, to the west, on theAtlantic Ocean speak Strait of Gibraltar, wide of 14 km.

Its maximum depth reaches 5 267 m

Regions

He is

It bathes a large number of islands:

to the west, the Balearic Islands
in the center, the Corsica, the Sardinia, the Sicily, Malta and Djerba
to the East, Cyprus, the Crete and Rhodes

Coastal countries

It borders the following countries:

to the north, the France, Monaco, the'Italy, the Slovenia, the Croatia, the Bosnia and herzegovina, the Montenegro, the'Albania, the Greece and the Turkey
to the east, the Syria, the Lebanon, Israel and the occupied Palestinian territory from the Gaza Strip
to the west, theSpain
to the south, theEgypt, the Libya, the Tunisia, the'Algeria and the Morocco

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