Black Sea Lowland

Black Sea Lowland is a major geographic feature of the Northern Pontic region and the East European Plain. It almost completely within the Southern Ukraine covering half of its territory.

Location

The lowland is located along the northern shores of Black Sea. Stretching eastward from Wallachian Plain past Molochna River, it transforms into a narrow Azov Littoral, Azov Lowland. To the south-east the Black Sea Lowland extends onto the Crimean peninsula where it is known as Crimean Lowland. To the west there is Bugeac and Wallachian Plain. The northern borders composed out of several uplands such as Moldavian Plateau, Podillia Upland, Dnieper Upland, Zaporizhian Ridge, Azov Upland. Azov, Crimean, and Bugeac lowlands consider to be extension of the Black Sea Lowland and its regional extremities.

Description

Black Sea Lowland is an accumulative, weakly divided plain which being part of the greater Eastern European Plain gradually slopes towards the Black Sea and the Sea of Azov.

External links

• Black Sea Lowland at Encyclopedia of Ukraine.
• Black Sea Lowland at Ukrainian Soviet Encyclopedia