Gulf of Trieste

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Gulf of Trieste and the littoral

The Gulf of Trieste (Italian: Golfo di Trieste, Slovene: Tržaški zaliv, Croatian: Tršćanski zaljev, German: Golf von Triest ) is a shallow bay of the Adriatic Sea, in the extreme northern part of the Mediterranean Sea.

1 Geography
2 See also

[edit] Geography

The gulf of Trieste is itself part of the gulf of Venice, and is shared by Italy, Slovenia and Croatia.

The gulf is limited by an imaginary line connecting the Punta Tagliamento on the Italian and Savudrija (Punta Salvore) on the Croatian coast. Its area is approximately 1000 km², its average depth 16 m, and its maximal depth 37 m.

With the exception of flat islets blocking the entrance to Laguna di Grado, there are no islands in the gulf. Its eastern coasts, with Trieste and the Slovenian Littoral, have more rugged relief.

Its most prominent features are

Bay of Muggia in Italy,
Bay of Koper (Capodistria) in Slovenia, and
Gulf of Piran (Pirano) divided now between Slovenia and Croatia (with an international dispute about their respective waters and the connection of the exclusive Slovenian waters to the international waters in the Adriatic, since the creation of the two countries from the former Yugoslavia).

It is closed to the south by the peninsula of Istria, the largest peninsula in the Adriatic Sea, shared between Croatia and Slovenia.