The Balkan Peninsula is located in southern Europe. It is washed by the waters of the Aegean, Adriatic, Ionian, Black and
Marmara Seas. On the western shores there are many bays and bays, rocky and steep for the most part. In the east, they are usually straightforward and low. The Balkan Peninsula includes medium and low mountains. Among them are Pind, the Dinaric Highlands, the Rhodope Mountains, Stara Planina, the Serbian Highlands and others. The name of the peninsula in Europe is one.
On the outskirts is the Lower Danube and Central Danube Plains. The most important rivers are Morava, Maritsa, Sava, Danube. Among the water bodies, the main lakes are: Prespa, Ohrid, Skadar. The Balkan Peninsula in the north and east has a temperate continental climate. Territories in the south and west are characterized by a Mediterranean subtropical climate.
The countries of the Balkan Peninsula vary significantly in socio-political, climatic and other conditions. Southern territories are occupied in most of Greece. It is bordered by Bulgaria, Yugoslavia, Turkey and Albania. In
Greece, the climate is characterized as subtropical Mediterranean, with hot and arid summers, humid, mild winters. In the mountainous and northern regions, weather conditions are more severe, in winter the temperature here is below zero.
The Balkan Peninsula in the south is occupied by Macedonia. It borders with Albania, Greece, Bulgaria, Yugoslavia. In Macedonia, the climate is mostly Mediterranean, with rainy winters and dry and hot summers.
The northeastern territories of the peninsula are Bulgaria. Its northern part borders with Romania, the western part with Macedonia and Serbia, the southern part with Turkey and Greece. The territory of Bulgaria includes the longest mountain range on the peninsula - Stara Planina. To its north and south of the Danube is the Danube plain. This fairly extensive plateau rises one hundred and fifty meters above sea level, it is dissected by many rivers that originate in the Old Planina and flow into the Danube. The Rhodopes border the southeast plain from the southwest. Most of the plains are located in the Maritsa river basin. These territories have always been famous for fertility.
Climatically, Bulgaria is divided into three zones: steppe, Mediterranean and continental. This determines the diversity of the nature of this territory. So, for example, in Bulgaria there are more than three thousand plant species, various species of which have disappeared from other European territories.
The western part of the Balkan Peninsula is occupied by Albania. The northern and northwestern territories border Montenegro and Serbia, the eastern ones - with Macedonia, and the southern and southeastern ones - with Greece. The main part of Albania is characterized by elevated and mountainous terrain with deep and very fertile valleys. The territory also has several large lakes that extend along the border territories with Greece, Macedonia, Yugoslavia.
The climate in Albania is Mediterranean subtropical. Summer is dry and hot, and winter is wet and cool.