The Gulf of Piran or Piran Bay (, or , ) is located in the northern part of the

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, and is a part of the southernmost tip of the

Gulf of Trieste The Gulf of Trieste(, , , ) is a shallow bay of the Adriatic Sea, in the extreme northern part of the Adriatic Sea. It is part of the Gulf of Venice and is shared by Italy, Slovenia and Croatia. It is closed to the south by the peninsula of Ist ...

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It was named after the town of

Piran Piran (; ) is a town in southwestern Slovenia on the Gulf of Piran on the Adriatic Sea. It is one of the three major towns of Slovenian Istria. A bilingual city, with population speaking both Slovene and Italian, Piran is known for its medieva ...

, and its shores are shared by

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and

Slovenia Slovenia, officially the Republic of Slovenia, is a country in Central Europe. It borders Italy to the west, Austria to the north, Hungary to the northeast, Croatia to the south and southeast, and a short (46.6 km) coastline within the Adriati ...

. It is delimited by a line connecting Cape Savudrija ('' Savudrijski rt'') in the south to the Cape Madona (''

Rt Madona Piran (; ) is a town in southwestern Slovenia on the Gulf of Piran on the Adriatic Sea. It is one of the three major towns of Slovenian Istria. A bilingual city, with population speaking both Slovene and Italian, Piran is known for its medieval ...

'') in the north and measures around . On the eastern Slovenian coast lies the town of

, and the settlements

Portorož Portorož (; ) is a Slovenian Adriatic seaside resort and spa settlement located in the Municipality of Piran in southwestern Slovenia. Its modern development began in the late 19th century with the vogue for the first health resorts. In the earl ...

and

Lucija Lucija () is the Croatian and Slovenian form of the feminine given name Lucy. In Croatia, the name Lucija was the most common feminine given name between 2000 and 2011. The name is of Latin origin and means "light". Notable people with the nam ...

. On the southern Croatian coast are tourist camps of Crveni Vrh and Kanegra, built in the 1980s. The main river flowing into the gulf is the

Dragonja The Dragonja (; ) is a long river in the northern part of the Istrian peninsula. It is a meandering river with a very branched basin and a small quantity of water. It has a pluvial regime and often dries up in summer. It features very diverse ...

, whose mouth is on the border. Along the mouth of the Dragonja lie the

Sečovlje saltpans Sečovlje (; ) is a settlement in the Municipality of Piran in the Slovenian Littoral, Littoral region of Slovenia. Name The modern Slovene name ''Sečovlje'' is an artificial creation dating from after 1945. It was coined from the Italian name of ...

, covering an area of . The Gulf area has been a theatre of a maritime and land border dispute between Slovenia and Croatia.

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Conditions in the Gulf of Piran
- graphs, in the following order, of water temperature, wave height, wave (interval) period, wave direction, current speed, current direction, maximum wave height data for the past 30 days (taken near

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Adriatic Sea