IMPORTANT RIVERS OF EUROPE

  

RIVERS OF ITALY	OUTFLOW	CITY LOCATED
po       ·         The principal lowland of Italy is the fertile Northern plain formed by the ;country’s longest river the po (.652 km) and its tributaries.      ·         South west flowing river of Italy	Adriatic Sea	Venice (Italy)
Tiber Delta: cuspate.	Mediterranean Sea	Rome (Italy)

IMPORTANT RIVERS OF FRANCE	OUTFLOW	CITY LOCATED
Garrone	Bay oif Biscay	Bordeax
Loire	Bay of Biscay	Nantes.
Seine	English channel	Paris, rouen, and leHavre.

IMPORTANT STRAITS

IMPORTANT STRAITS

NAME	SEPARATES	CONCEPTS
Strait of Gibraltar (Known as ‘Key to the Mediterranean’)	Europe and Africa	Mediterranean sea with Atlantic Ocean.
Strait of Boniface	Sardine Islands. (Italy) and Corsica (France )	Tyrrhenian Sea with Mediterranean Sea.
Strait of Messina	Sicily and peninsular Italy	Tyrrhenian Sea with Mediterranean Sea
Strait of Otranto	Italy and Balkan Peninsula	Adriatic sea with Ionian Sea.
Bosporus Strait	Istanbul and Anatolia Peninsula (turkey)	Black sea with sea of Marmana.
Strait of Kerch	Kerch (Ukraine) and Russia	Sea of Azov with Black Sea.
Dardanelles Strait	Balkan Peninsula and Anatolia Peninsula	Sea of Marmara with Aegean sea

IMPORTANT SEAS

IMPORTANT SEAS

NAME	LOCATION, (PART OF OCEAN)	RIVERS DRAINING INTO THEM
Mediterranean sea	Separates Europe from Africa, strait of Gibraltar connects it to the Atlantic ocean.	Tiber (Italy) Rhone (France Ebro (Spain)
White Sea	North of Russia, Arctic Ocean	Mezen, N. Devina, and One an.
Baltic Sea	Atlantic Ocean	Vistula and oder.
North Sea ·         Wide continental shelves of North sea, called as dagger bank, is one of the most productive regions for fishing in the world. ·         North sea is connected to the Baltic sea through kiesl canal.	East of the United Kingdom, Atlantic Ocean.	Elbe and weser (Germany)and Rhine (Netherland).
Irish Sea	Lies between Great Britain and Ireland, Atlantic Ocean.
Ionian sea	North east of Italy, Mediterranean Sea	Po (Italy).
Ionian Sea	Lies between Greece and Italy, Mediterranean Sea.
Black  Sea	Separates Europe from Asia	Dnepr, duster, Danube.
Sea of azov	South east of Ukraine, North of Black Sea	Don.
Sea of Marmara	South west of Black Sea.	Connects black Sea Aegean Sea
Aegean Sea	Lies Between Greece and Anatolia Peninsula (Turkey), Mediterranean Sea.

EUROPE: PHYSICAL IMPORTANT GULFS AND BAYS

 

NAME	SEPERATES	PART OF SEA OR OCEAN
Gulf of Riga	Estonia and lavia	Baltic Sea.
Gulf of Finland and	Finland and Estonia	Baltic Sea.
Gulf of Bothnia	Sweden and Finland	Baltic sea.
English channel	Britain and France	Atlantic Ocean.
Bay of Biscay	France and Spain	Atlantic ocean
Gulf of Lions	Lies to the south of France	Mediterranean Sea.

CITIES ALONG THE PACIFIC OCEAN

VLANDIVOSTOK (CITYOF EAST)

·         Situated along the coast of sea of Japan is the last station of trans –Siberian – railway route.

·         An important centre of shipbuilding, matchbox, leather and fishing in the eastern Asiatic Russia.

KHABAROVSK

·         Centre of agro – machinery and food processing industries.

KOMSOMOL’S

·         An important entre of flour milling.

UKRAINE

Situated to the south of Russia and Belarus and to the north of the Black sea.

KIYEN (KIEV)

·         Ukraine’s capital is the major industrial centre based on the Donetsk (Donbas) coalfield and the frivol-rug, Kerch iron –field.

DONETZ (DONBAS)

·         Situated to the north of the Black Sea.

·         Leading high grade bituminous coal field of erstwhile USSR.

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