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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.
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.
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.
"Caucasus Mountains" to "Greater Caucasus Mountains" 04:25, 28 July 2016: 1,155 × 898 (5.56 MB) Ketone16 "Caucasus Mountains" to "Greater Caucasus Mountains" 00:57, 26 July 2016: 1,155 × 898 (5.56 MB) Ketone16 "Lesser Caucasus" changed to "Lesser Caucasus Mountains" Added extra labels for the Araxes and Kura rivers. Other minor changes. 03:54 ...
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.
* Rivers, bathymetry : Demis add-on for World Wind (see the approval e-mail and the Demis forum) ; * 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.
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The South Caucasus spans the southern portion of the Caucasus Mountains and their lowlands, straddling the border between the continents of Europe and Asia, and extending southwards from the southern part of the Main Caucasian Range of southwestern Russia to the Turkish and Armenian borders, and from the Black Sea in the west to the Caspian Sea coast of Iran in the east.