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The Black Sea deluge is a hypothesized catastrophic rise in the level of the Black Sea c. 5600 BC due to waters from the Mediterranean Sea breaching a sill in the Bosporus Strait. The hypothesis was headlined when The New York Times published it in December 1996, shortly before it was published in an academic journal . [ 89 ]
The second number is the total number of distinct countries or territories that the country or territory borders. In this instance, if the country or territory shares two or more maritime boundaries with the same country or territory and the boundaries are unconnected, the boundaries are only counted once. The final number is the total number ...
Land borders and maritime boundaries are included and are tabulated separately and in combination. For purposes of this list, "maritime boundary" includes boundaries that are recognized by the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea, which includes boundaries of territorial waters, contiguous zones, and exclusive economic zones.
World map of the five-ocean model with approximate boundaries. This list of countries which border two or more oceans includes both sovereign states and dependencies, provided the same contiguous territory borders on more than one of the five named oceans, the Pacific, Atlantic, Indian, Southern, and Arctic. [1]
Along the Black Sea coast, from Abkhazia to the Turkish border, and in the region known as the Colchis Lowland inland from the coast, the dominant subtropical climate features high humidity and heavy precipitation (1,000 to 2,000 mm or 39.4 to 78.7 in per year; the Black Sea port of Batumi receives 2,500 mm or 98.4 in per year). [12]
Georgia (transcontinental country) Germany Gibraltar (UK) Greece Guernsey (UK) Iceland Ireland Isle of Man (UK) Italy Jersey (UK) Kaliningrad (RUS) Latvia Lithuania Malta Monaco Montenegro Norway Poland Portugal Romania Russia Slovenia Spain Sweden Ukraine Turkey (transcontinental country) United Kingdom
Continent Location Borders (alphabetical order) Continents Countries Oceans / Seas Americas: Northern / Western / Southern: Arctic Ocean / Atlantic Ocean / Pacific Ocean / Baffin Bay / Beaufort Sea / Bering Sea / Caribbean Sea / Chukchi Sea / Greenland Sea / Gulf of Mexico / Hudson Bay / Labrador Sea
One commonly accepted border follows the Aegean Sea, the Dardanelles–Sea of Marmara–Bosporus (together known as the Turkish Straits), the Black Sea, along the watershed of the Greater Caucasus, the northwestern portion of the Caspian Sea, and along the Ural River and Ural Mountains to the Kara Sea, as mapped and listed in most atlases ...