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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.
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 ...
Gulf of Bomba. Gulf of Drin. Gulf of Genoa. Gulf of Mersin. Gulf of Roses. Gulf of Saint Euphemia. Gulf of Valencia.
This is a list of seas of the World Ocean, including marginal seas, areas of water, various gulfs, bights, bays, and straits. [2] In many cases it is a matter of tradition for a body of water to be named a sea or a bay, etc., therefore all these types are listed here.
The Gulf of Sidra ( Arabic: خليج السدرة, romanized : Khalij as-Sidra, also known as the Gulf of Sirte ( Arabic: خليج سرت, romanized : Khalij Surt, is a body of water in the Mediterranean Sea on the northern coast of Libya, named after the oil port of Sidra or the city of Sirte. [2] It was also historically known as the Great ...
Gulf of Aden, off the southwestern corner of the Arabian Peninsula. Gulf of Alaska, in the Pacific Ocean, south of the state of Alaska. Albay Gulf, in the southern part of Luzon. Ambracian Gulf, of the Ionian Sea in northwestern Greece. Amundsen Gulf, in the Arctic Ocean, northwest of Canada.
Aegean Sea. / 39°N 25°E / 39; 25. The Aegean Sea[ a] is an elongated embayment of the Mediterranean Sea between Europe and Asia. It is located between the Balkans and Anatolia, and covers an area of some 215,000 km 2 (83,000 sq mi). [ 3] In the north, the Aegean is connected to the Marmara Sea, which in turn connects to the Black Sea ...
Coordinates: 36°45′N 36°00′E. Gulf of Alexandretta ( İskenderun) in Hatay Province, on the Mediterranean coast of Turkey, near the border with Syria. The Gulf of Alexandretta or İskenderun ( Turkish: İskenderun Körfezi) is a gulf of the eastern Mediterranean or Levantine Sea. It lies beside the southern Turkish provinces of Adana and ...