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The Caucasus (/ ˈ k ɔː k ə s ə s /) or Caucasia [3] [4] (/ k ɔː ˈ k eɪ ʒ ə /), is a region spanning Eastern Europe and Western Asia.It is situated between the Black Sea and the Caspian Sea, mainly comprising Armenia, Azerbaijan, Georgia, and parts of Southern Russia.
Satellite image of the Caucasus Mountains. The Caucasus Mountains [a] is a mountain range at the intersection of Asia and Europe. Stretching between the Black Sea and the Caspian Sea, they are surrounded by the Caucasus region and are home to Mount Elbrus, the highest peak in Europe at 5,642 metres (18,510 ft) above sea level.
Module:Location map/data/Caucasus mountains; Media in category "Maps of the Caucasus" The following 3 files are in this category, out of 3 total.
* Rivers, cities, railroads, routes, bathymetry : Demis add-on for World Wind (see the approval e-mail and the Demis forum) ; * Borders and coast : World data bank II ; Approximate scale of topographic data : 1:1,463,000 ; Note : The shaded relief is a raster image embedded in the SVG file.
The Geography of the Caucasus mountain ranges and regions of far Eastern Europe and central Western Asia.; The southwestern Russian republics, oblasts, and autonomous regions are in the European North Caucasus (Ciscaucasia) region; and the independent nations - Armenia, Azerbaijan, and Georgia - are in the Asian South Caucasus (Transcaucasia) region.
The South Caucasus, also known as Transcaucasia or the Transcaucasus, is a geographical region on the border of Eastern Europe and West Asia, straddling the southern Caucasus Mountains. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] The South Caucasus roughly corresponds to modern Armenia , Georgia , and Azerbaijan , which are sometimes collectively known as the Caucasian States .
* Rivers, cities, railroads, routes, bathymetry : Demis add-on for World Wind (see the approval e-mail and the Demis forum) ; * Borders and coast : World data bank II ; Approximate scale of topographic data : 1:1,463,000 ; Note : The shaded relief is a raster image embedded in the SVG file.
The Greater Caucasus [a] [b] is the major mountain range of the Caucasus Mountains.It stretches for about 1,200 kilometres (750 mi) from west-northwest to east-southeast, from the Taman Peninsula of the Black Sea to the Absheron Peninsula of the Caspian Sea: from the Western Caucasus in the vicinity of Sochi on the northeastern shore of the Black Sea and reaching nearly to Baku on the Caspian.