The Gulf of Varna ( bg, Варненски залив, ''Varnenski zaliv'') is a

gulf A gulf is a large inlet from the ocean into the landmass, typically with a narrower opening than a bay, but that is not observable in all geographic areas so named. The term gulf was traditionally used for large highly-indented navigable bodie ...

on the

Bulgarian Black Sea coast The Bulgarian Black Sea Coast (), also known as the Bulgarian Riviera, covers the entire eastern bound of Bulgaria stretching from the Romanian Black Sea resorts in the north to European Turkey in the south, along 378 km of coast ...

. The length of the gulf is . Its maximum width is , and its depth ranges from . The

Port of Varna Port of Varna ( bg, Пристанище Варна, Pristanishte Varna)map is the largest seaport complex in Bulgaria. Located on the Black Sea's west coast on Varna Bay, along Lake Varna and Lake Beloslav, it also comprises the outlying port o ...

and the major city of Varna are located on the gulf.

References

* Географический энциклопедический словарь. Москва. «Советская энциклопедия». 1989. стор. 94 Gulfs of the Black Sea Bays of Bulgaria Landforms of Varna Province Varna, Bulgaria {{bulgaria-geo-stub