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The Mediterranean Sea (/ ˌ m ɛ d ɪ t ə ˈ r eɪ n i ən / MED-ih-tə-RAY-nee-ən) is a sea connected to the Atlantic Ocean, surrounded by the Mediterranean Basin and almost completely enclosed by land: on the north by Southern Europe and Anatolia, on the south by North Africa, on the east by the Levant in West Asia, and on the west almost by the Morocco–Spain border.
The Mediterranean countries are those that surround the Mediterranean Sea or located within the Mediterranean Basin. [1] Twenty sovereign countries in Southern Europe, Western Asia and North Africa regions border the sea itself, two island nations completely located in it (Malta and Cyprus), in addition to two British Overseas Territories ...
Template. : Europe and seas labelled map. Clickable map of Europe, showing the standard convention for its continental boundary with Asia. (see boundary between Europe and Asia for more information). Legend: = ; = Sometimes considered European but geographically outside Europe's boundaries. Categories: Europe country templates.
Original file (SVG file, nominally 1,837 × 722 pixels, file size: 55 KB) Map of the Mediterranean Sea and subdivisions. Marked are subdivisions according to the International Hydrographic Organization. Some additional seas are marked in quotes, which are commonly used but not recognised by the IHO. This file is licensed under the Creative ...
Map of western Europe, anonymous and undated, preserved in the Ambrosiana Library, dating from the 14th [21] or 15th centuries. In addition there is a detailed description of a nautical Arab map of the Mediterranean in the Encyclopedia of the Egyptian Ibn Fadl Allah al-'Umari, written between 1330 and 1348. [19]
In oceanography, a mediterranean sea (/ ˌmɛdɪtəˈreɪniən / MED-ih-tə-RAY-nee-ən) is a mostly enclosed sea that has limited exchange of water with outer oceans and whose water circulation is dominated by salinity and temperature differences rather than by winds or tides. [1][2] The eponymous Mediterranean Sea, for example, is almost ...
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