Question: How many cities are around the sea in which the ionian sea flows?
SPARQL query: SELECT DISTINCT COUNT(?uri) WHERE { <http://dbpedia.org/resource/Ionian_Sea> <http://dbpedia.org/ontology/outflow> ?x . ?x <http://dbpedia.org/property/cities> ?uri  . ?x <http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#type> <http://dbpedia.org/ontology/Sea>}
Answer: There are [13] cities around the sea which is the outflow of the Ionian Sea.