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Crimea is a peninsula on the northern coast of the Black Sea and an autonomous republic in Ukraine. Its capital is Simferopol. Crimea, also translated as the Crimean Peninsula, covers an area of ??25,500 square kilometers and has a population of 2.5 million. Its name is derived from the Tatar word "Crim", which is the name of the earliest Tatar Khan.

To the north, the Crimean Peninsula is connected to the European continent through an isthmus only a few kilometers wide. The eastern part of the peninsula is the Kerch Peninsula, which faces the mainland across the Kerch Strait. The Kerch Strait connects the Black Sea and the Sea of ??Azov.

The coastline of the Crimean Peninsula forms several bays and good natural harbors. In the northwest of the peninsula is the Karkini Bay, in the southwest of the peninsula are good ports such as Sevastopol and Balaklava, in the northeast of the peninsula is the Kerch Bay, and in the southeast is the Feodosia Bay and its namesake of good harbor.

There are two mountain ranges (Crim Mountains, highest point 1,545 meters) extending along the southeast coast of the peninsula to the southwest corner of the peninsula. 75% of the rest of the peninsula is semi-arid grassland. Walking on the grassland of the peninsula are many tombs left by the Scythians.

The southern coast of the peninsula is warm and humid, making it a health resort. During the Soviet era this was the retreat of the top leaders of the Soviet Union. There are also many orchards and vineyards, and many villages, mosques, monasteries, Russian royal palaces, and ancient Greek and medieval castles are clustered here.