{"id":13273,"date":"2026-07-24T13:25:44","date_gmt":"2026-07-24T07:55:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=13273"},"modified":"2026-07-24T13:36:58","modified_gmt":"2026-07-24T08:06:58","slug":"key-facts-about-black-sea","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/key-facts-about-black-sea\/","title":{"rendered":"Black Sea"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><b>Black Sea Latest News<\/b><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">India issued a security warning recently for ships venturing into the Black Sea that are locally flagged or employ its seafarers.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><b>About Black Sea<\/b><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It is a large<\/span><b> inland sea<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> situated at the<\/span><b> southeastern extremity of Europe.<\/b><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It is located where <\/span><b>Europe and Asia meet.\u00a0<\/b><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It is one of the <\/span><b>marginal seas <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">of the <\/span><b>Atlantic Ocean.<\/b><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The roughly <\/span><b>oval-shaped<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> body of water has a surface area of\u00a0 436,000 sq.km.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><b>Bordering Regions:<\/b>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><b>West: Balkan Peninsula<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> (Southeastern Europe).<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><b>East: Caucasus Mountains.<\/b><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><b>North: East European Plains <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">(Russia &amp; Ukraine).<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><b>South: Anatolia<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> (Turkey, Western Asia).<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It is <\/span><b>bordered <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">by <\/span><b>Ukraine <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">to the north, <\/span><b>Russia <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">to the northeast, <\/span><b>Georgia <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">to the east, <\/span><b>Turkey <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">to the south, and <\/span><b>Bulgaria <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">and <\/span><b>Romania <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">to the west. The<\/span><b> Crimean Peninsula<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> juts into the Black Sea from the north.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Though far inland, it<\/span><b> connects with the Atlantic Ocean<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> through a <\/span><b>series of other waterways.\u00a0<\/b>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The <\/span><b>Bosporus Strait,<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> the <\/span><b>Sea of Marmara,<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> and the<\/span><b> Dardanelles Strait link the Black Sea to the Aegean Se<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">a, the <\/span><b>Mediterranean Sea<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, and finally, the <\/span><b>Atlantic<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">To its <\/span><b>east, the<\/b> <b>Kerch Strait links the Black Sea<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> to the <\/span><b>smaller Sea of Azov.\u00a0<\/b><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><b>Major rivers<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> flowing into it include the<\/span><b> Danube, Dnieper,<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> Southern Bug, Rioni, and <\/span><b>Dniester<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><b>Ukraine <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">has the <\/span><b>highest number of islands<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> in the Black Sea, <\/span><b>including <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">the<\/span><b> sea\u2019s largest island, Dzharylhach <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Island.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Black Sea has <\/span><b>lower salinity than the world\u2019s oceans<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> due to isolation from the Mediterranean.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><b>Russia<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> has the<\/span><b> longest coastline<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> (2,300 km), followed by Turkey (1,329 km) and Ukraine (1,282 km).<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It is the <\/span><b>starting point for the shipment of goods from Eastern Europe<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> to the rest of the world.\u00a0 <\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>News: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.deccanchronicle.com\/nation\/india-issues-security-advisory-for-ships-operating-in-black-sea-1973299\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">DC<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Black Sea is a strategic inland sea connecting Europe and Asia. 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