Facts about Crimea
Crimea is surrounded almost entirely by the Black Sea. It is connected to Ukraine’s Kherson Oblast in the North by the Isthmus of Perekop. The Kerch Strait separates Crimea from Russia. In the ancient world the peninsula was known as Tauris. Crimea covers an area of 10,000 sq miles/26,000 sq km, about the same […]
