page_title: Black Sea
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hierarchical_section_title: Black Sea / Name
context_page_description: The Black Sea is a body of water and marginal sea of the Atlantic Ocean between Eastern Europe, the Caucasus, and Western Asia. It is supplied by a number of major rivers, including the Danube, Dnieper, Southern Bug, Dniester, Don, and the Rioni. The watersheds of many countries drain into the Black Sea beyond the six that immediately border it.
  The Black Sea has an area of 436,400 km², a maximum depth of 2,212 m, and a volume of 547,000 km³. It is constrained by the Pontic Mountains to the south, Caucasus Mountains to the east, Crimean Mountains to the north, Strandzha to the southwest, Balkan Mountains to the west, Dobrogea Plateau to the northwest, and features a wide shelf to the northwest.
  The longest east–west extent is about 1,175 km. Important cities along the coast include Odessa, Sevastopol, Samsun, and Istanbul.
  The Black Sea is bordered by Ukraine, Romania, Bulgaria, Turkey, Georgia, and Russia. It has a positive water balance with an annual net outflow of 300 km³ per year through the Bosporus and the Dardanelles into the Aegean Sea.
caption: The estuary of the Veleka in the Black Sea. Longshore drift has deposited sediment along the shoreline which has led to the formation of a spit, Sinemorets, Bulgaria
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