{"id":13273,"date":"2025-10-07T11:07:44","date_gmt":"2025-10-07T05:37:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=13273"},"modified":"2025-10-07T15:48:34","modified_gmt":"2025-10-07T10:18:34","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 style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Russia recently reported destroying 251 Ukrainian drones overnight, mostly over its southwest and the Black Sea, with one targeting Moscow. <\/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 inland sea situated at the southeastern extremity of Europe.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It is one of the <\/span><b>marginal seas of the 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 (Russia &amp; Ukraine).<\/b><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><b>South: Anatolia (Turkey, Western Asia).<\/b><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><b>Countries bordering<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> the Black Sea are <\/span><b>Turkey <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">to the south, <\/span><b>Bulgaria <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">and <\/span><b>Romania <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">to the west, <\/span><b>Ukraine to<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> the north, <\/span><b>Russia <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">to the northeast, and <\/span><b>Georgia <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">to the east. 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;\"><b>Russia has the longest coastline (2,300 km), followed by Turkey (1,329 km)<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> and Ukraine (1,282 km).<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It<\/span><b> connects to the Aegean Sea (Mediterranean) via the Bosporus Strait, <a href=\"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/sea-of-marmara\/\" target=\"_blank\">the Sea of Marmara<\/a>, and the Dardanelles Strait.<\/b><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">To its east, the<\/span><b> Kerch Strait links the Black Sea to<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> the smaller<\/span><b> Sea of Azov.<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\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>Major river<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">s flowing into it include the <\/span><b>Danube, Dnieper, Southern Bug,<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> Rioni, and Dniester.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2><b>Environmental and Strategic Importance of the Black Sea<\/b><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><b>World\u2019s Largest Meromictic Basin:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0<\/span>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><b>Movement of water between the lower and upper layers <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">of the Sea is <\/span><b>rare<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This <\/span><b>creates considerable temperature and nutrient differences<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> between these layers, with the <\/span><b>lower layers being absolutely free of oxygen and anoxic.\u00a0<\/b><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This complex water chemistry is fueled by extensive freshwater inputs from multiple large rivers and rainfall, with <\/span><b>salt water exchanges with the Aegean Sea only through the Bosphorus and Dardanelles Strait.<\/b><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><b>Anoxic zones:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> One of the largest anoxic basins, meaning low dissolved oxygen in deeper layers, affecting marine biodiversity.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><b>Crucial for global trade, <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">particularly for Russia and Ukraine\u2019s grain and energy exports.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><b>NATO and Russia frequently conduct naval operations <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">in the region.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><b>Russia\u2019s Black Sea Fleet is stationed in Sevastopol, Crimea,<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> making the region highly militarized.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><b>Key Islands: Snake Island (Ukraine); Giresun Island (Turkey); St. Ivan Island (Bulgaria).<\/b><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>Source:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0<\/span><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/economictimes.indiatimes.com\/news\/defence\/russia-says-it-downs-251-ukrainian-drones-including-61-over-black-sea\/articleshow\/124331545.cms?from=mdr\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">ET<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Black Sea, between Eastern Europe and Western Asia, is bordered by Turkey, Ukraine, Russia, and Georgia etc playing a key regional role. 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