Key facts
- Location
- Black Sea
- River sources
- Dniester
- Ocean sea sources
- Atlantic Ocean
- Basin countries
- Ukraine
- Max length
- 45.2 km (28.1 mi)
- Max width
- 12 km (7.5 mi)
- Surface area
- 360–408 km (139–158 sq mi)
- Average depth
- 1.8 m (5 ft 11 in)
- Max depth
- 2.7 m (8 ft 10 in)
- Water volume
- 0.2 km (0.048 cu mi)
- Settlements
- Bilhorod-Dnistrovskyi , Ovidiopol , Shabo , Zatoka
- Official name
- Northern Part of the Dniester Liman
- Designated
- 23 November 1995
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- liman
- Country
- Ukraine
- Located in
- Bilhorod-Dnistrovskyi Raion
- Area
- 360
- Elevation
- 0
- Image
- Аккерманська фортеця. Вигляд на лиман.jpg
- Width
- 12
- Length
- 42.5
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- Commons category
- Dniester Estuary
- heritage designation
- Ramsar site
- vertical depth
- 2.7
- volume as quantity
- 387400000
- on focus list of Wikimedia project
- WikiProject Ukraine
Sources (2)
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Encyclopedic overview
Dniester Estuary, or Dniester Liman (Ukrainian: Дністровський лиман; Romanian: Limanul Nistrului) is a liman, formed at the point where the river Dniester flows into the Black Sea. It is located in Ukraine, in Odesa Oblast, and connects Budjak to the Ukrainian mainland. The city of Bilhorod-Dnistrovskyi lies on its western shore and Ovidiopol on its eastern shore. Shabo, situated downstream of Bilhorod-Dnistrovskyi, is known for its wine. The estuary hosts the Bilhorod-Dnistrovsky Seaport.
The area of the liman varies between 360 and 408 km, it is 42.5 km long and has maximum width of 12 km. The average depth is 1.8 m, the maximum depth 2.7 m.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Dniester Lyman” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.