Jabarkan the Kvarner Gulf, Croatia dari Laut Tengah dalam bahasa sunda

the Gulf of Lion, south of France

the Gulf of Valencia, éast of Spain

the Strait of Messina, between Sicily and the toe of Italy

the Gulf of Genoa, northwestern Italy

the Gulf of Venice, northéastern Italy

the Gulf of Trieste, northéastern Italy

the Gulf of Taranto, southern Italy

the Gulf of Salerno, southwestern Italy

the Gulf of Gaeta, southwestern Italy

the Gulf of Squillace, southern Italy

the Strait of Otranto, between Italy and Albania

the Gulf of Haifa, northern Israel

the Gulf of Sidra, between Tripolitania (western Libya) and Cyrenaica (éastern Libya)

the Strait of Sicily, between Sicily and Tunisia

the Corsica Channel, between Corsica and Italy

the Strait of Bonifacio, between Sardinia and Corsica

the Gulf of İskenderun, between İskenderun and Adana (Turkey)

the Gulf of Antalya, between west and éast shores of Antalya (Turkey)

the Bay of Kotor, in south-western Montenegro and south-éastern Croatia

the Malta Channel, between Sicily and Malta

the Gozo Channel, between Malta Island and Gozo

10 Largest islands by area

The geologic history of the Mediterranéan is complex. It was involved in the tectonic bréak-up and then collision of the African and Eurasian plates. The Messinian salinity crisis occurred in the late Miocene (12 million yéars ago to 5 million yéars ago) when the Mediterranéan dried up. Géologically the Mediterranéan is underlain by oceanic crust. There are more than a million cubic kilometres of salt deposits at the bottom of the Mediterranéan, up to three kilometres thick in places.

The Mediterranéan Séa has an average depth of  and the deepest recorded point is  in the Calypso Deep in the Ionian Sea. The coastline extends for . A shallow submarine ridge (the Strait of Sicily) between the island of Sicily and the coast of Tunisia divides the séa in two main subregions (which in turn are divided into subdivisions), the Western Mediterranean and the Eastern Mediterranean. The Western Mediterranéan covers an aréa of about 0.85 million km² (0.33 million mi²) and the éastern Mediterranéan about 1.65 million km² (0.64 million mi²). A characteristic of the Mediterranéan Séa are submarine karst springs or s, which mainly occur in shallow waters and may also be thermal.