The average depth is 1,457 feet (0.444 km).ġ88 Entrance to the Adriatic sea including Nisos KérkiraĦ83 Bar, Dubrovnik, and Approaches to Peljeski Kanalĥ4260 Pellg I Drinit to Kerkira including the Strait of Otrantoĥ4280 Corfu Channel to Nisis Proti Albania The maximum depth of the Adriatic Sea is 3,300 feet (1.0 km) and is situated south of the central area. Generally speaking, the waters are shallow all along the Italian coast. For instance, in the case of the Istrian and Dalmatian areas of Slovenia and Croatia the shores are low and sandy and the nearby sea is shallow, as in the vicinity of Venice or, farther south, near the delta of the Italian Po River. Wherever the coasts are high and mountainous, the nearby sea depths are considerable. The depths of the Adriatic near its shores share a close relationship to the physiography of the nearby coastlines. 39☄5'N) and on to Cape Santa Maria di Leuca'. The International Hydrographic Organization defines the southern limit of the Adriatic Sea as 'A line running from the mouth of the Butrinto River (39☄4'N) in Albania to Cape Karagol in Corfu, through this island to Cape Kephali (these two capes are in lat. Its total surface area is about 60,000 square miles (160,000 km²). Moreover, the chain of islands which fringes the northern part of the eastern shore reduces the extreme breadth of open sea in this part to 145 km (78 nm, 90 mi). It has an average width of about 160 km (85 nm, 100 mi), although the Strait of Otranto, through which it connects at the south with the Ionian Sea, is only 45-55 nautical miles wide (85–100 km).

The sea extends northwest from 40° to 45☄5' North, with an extreme length of about 770 km (415 nm, 480 mi). The name is derived from the Etruscian colony of Hadria. The Adriatic Sea is between the Italian peninsula and the Balkan peninsula.

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