Balkan Peninsula On World Map
The balkans is the historic and geographic area a peninsula in southeastern europe.
Balkan peninsula on world map. Its northern boundary is often given as the danube sava and kupa rivers. The region has a combined area of 550 000 km and an approximate population of 55 million people. The balkan has a population of about 55 million people and a combined area of about 181 000 square miles. The balkan peninsula is bounded by the adriatic sea to the west the mediterranean sea including the ionian and aegean seas and the marmara sea to the south and the black sea to the east.
The balkans or the balkan peninsula is the historical and geographical name to designate the southeastern region of europe that encompasses albania bosnia and herzegovina bulgaria greece north macedonia montenegro serbia the self proclaimed independent kosovo the portion of turkey on the european continent thrace as well as croatia romania and slovenia. The balkan peninsula lies east of italy separated from it by the adriatic sea. The sea of marmara south of the peninsula connects the mediterranean with the black sea. Extending to the south from central europe into the mediterranean sea the balkan peninsula colored dark gray in the map above includes the countries of albania bosnia herzegovina bulgaria croatia greece macedonia montenegro romania serbia slovenia and the geographical political region of european turkey.
The balkans are bordered by parts of the mediterranean sea the adriatic and the ionian sea in west and by the aegean sea in south.