The Mediterranean Sea, with a maximum span of 4,000 kilometers, is equivalent to the straight-line distance from Urumqi to Xiamen in China.
The Mediterranean Sea covers an area of about 25120,000 square kilometers, although it ranks among the top 54 sea areas in the world, it is not a dominating existence, and there are many sea areas larger than it;
Coral Sea and Tasman Sea locations.
For example, the world's largest sea is the Coral Sea, with a total area of 47910,000 square kilometers, almost twice the size of the Mediterranean, and the second-ranked Arabian Sea, with an area of 3.86 million square kilometers, is 15 times more;
The third sea, which is estimated to surprise many people, is the South China Sea, which we are very familiar with, and it also covers an area of 3.56 million square kilometers, which is 40% larger than the Mediterranean.
Then there is the Weddell Sea, which covers an area of 2.89 million square kilometers, and has an area of 27540,000 square kilometers of the Caribbean Sea, and so on.
In other words, in terms of area alone, among the 54 seas in the world, the Mediterranean Sea does not even rank among the top five.
However, the Mediterranean Sea, although unremarkable in size, is quite rare in shape, with a maximum span of only about 1,800 kilometers from north to south, but a staggering 4,000 kilometers from east to west.