Swallow's Nest at Yalta

(now a restaurant)

Crimea (Ukrainian Krym), peninsula in southeastern Ukraine,  an autonomous republic of that country. The peninsula, connected with the mainland to the north by the narrow Isthmus of Perekop, projects southward from the rest of Ukraine into  the Black Sea, which bounds it on all sides except the northeast where  it is bounded by the Sea of Azov. Kerchenskiy Strait, joining the latter  and the Black Sea, separates Crimea from the Caucasus Mountains on the east. Crimea extends about 320 km (about 200 mi) from east to west  and about 175 km (about 110 mi) from north to south.