The Adriatic Sea is a body of water and is a part of the
Mediterranean Sea. The sea separates the Italian Peninsula from
the Balkan Peninsula. Countries that have a coastline in the
Adriatic Sea are Italy, Slovenia, Croatia, Bosnia and
Herzegovina, Montenegro and Albania. The average width of the
sea is about 160 km. The Strait of Otranto joins the Adriatic
Sea and the Ionian Sea and is only 85 to 100 km wide. The sea is
very shallow. Its average depth is 240 m (133 fathoms). The sea
is deepest east of Monte Gargano and south of Dubrovnik where it
dips below 1,460 m (800 fathoms). |Wikimedia Commons has media
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