The Mediterranean region includes the sea of the same name and adjacent coastal states.
Regions
From west to east and clockwise, the Mediterranean Sea is framed by the following countries and territories:
- Gibraltar
- Spain
- France
- Monaco
- Italy
- Slovenia
- Croatia
- Bosnia and Herzegovina
- Montenegro
- Albania
- Greece
- Turkey
- Syria
- Lebanon
- Israel
- Egypt
- Libya
- Tunisia
- Algeria
- Morocco
- Ceuta and Melilla
Islands and archipelagos
- Balearic Islands (span.)
- Corsica (French)
- Sardinia (ital.)
- Sicily (ital.)
- Malta
- Ionian islands (Greek)
- Aegean islands (Greek)
- Crete (Greek)
- Cyprus
places
Other goals
Through the Bosphorus ins Black Sea
background
The Mediterranean Sea separates Africa of Europe and Asia. Geographically speaking, it is a secondary sea Atlantic and with this through the street from Gibraltar connected. Further connections exist via the Dardanelles, the Sea of Marmara and the Bosphorus to the Black Sea and about the Suez Canal to the Red sea. The sea covers an area of approx. 3 million square kilometers and drops at its deepest point to a depth of 5,121 m. Due to the strong evaporation caused by the climate, this shows Mediterranean Sea a higher salinity than the Atlantic and that Black sea. The amount of precipitation and the fresh water supply through the flowing rivers are less than the evaporation, so that essentially inflowing water from the Atlantic serves to compensate. This flow can be up Egypt prove.
Since the construction of the Suez Canal in 1869 represents the Mediterranean Sea an extremely important shipping route to Asia and East Africa The conditions for fishing are not particularly good due to the low nutrient content and the widespread discharge of litter and toxins (especially towards the end of the 20th century) added to the fishing problems. In 1979, 17 neighboring countries signed a plan to keep the Mediterranean clean in order to prevent further increases in pollution.
mobility
climate
Mediterranean: hot, dry summers and mild, damp winters
