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Article: Vacationing in the Crimea.(Ukraine)(Brief Article)
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- Faces: People, Places, and Cultures
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- March 1, 2002
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The Crimea, called Krym (krim) in Russian, is a peninsula thrusting into the Black Sea on the southern coast of Ukraine. It connects to the mainland by an isthmus, a very narrow strip of land, between the Black Sea to the west and the Sea of Azov to the east. The Crimea covers about 10,425 square miles, which is about the size of the US state of Maryland. The northern three-fourths of the peninsula is flat farmland where wheat, corn, and sunflowers are grown.
In the south, the plains rise to meet the forests of the Crimean Mountains, which reach heights of 5,000 feet before dropping suddenly to a narrow strip of coast between the mountains and the sea. It is this ...