Nine rivers drain into the Baltic Sea Vistula, Oder, Narva, Neman, Daugava, Torne alv, Kemijoki, Neva and Lule alv. The sea is composed of brackish water and is the largest brackish sea in the world.
While the sea has an average depth of 180 feet, it is 1,506 feet deep in its deepest point (which is still shallow relative to other seas). With a shoreline exceeding 5,000 miles in length, the sea has a maximum length of 995 miles and stretches about 120 miles at its widest point. The Baltic Sea is a large inland sea, covering an area of 0.146 million square miles. The main countries of the inland sea are the United States and Canada. The Hudson Strait is the connection that links the inland sea to the Atlantic Ocean, while the Foxe Basin links the inland sea to the Arctic Ocean. Many of the islands are found in the eastern coast of the bay. The islands in the inland sea are categorized into two groups the Ottawa and the Belcher Islands. The inland sea has the longest shoreline of any bay in North America and is only surpassed globally by the Bay of Bengal.
The depth of the relatively shallow sea averages at 330 feet, and is 890 feet at its deepest point, which is still shallow and characteristic to epicontinental seas. The maximum length of the inland sea is 851 miles and is 652 miles at its widest point. The sea’s drainage area is even larger, covering an area of 1.49 million square miles. The Hudson Bay has a surface area of 0.47 million square miles, making it the largest inland sea in the world. The Western Interior Seaway is an example of a prehistoric inland sea. The world has seen inland seas come and go in its history. Some sources also define the South China Sea and the Persian Gulf as inland seas. The two major inland seas in the world today are North America’s Hudson Bay and the Baltic Sea in Europe. One characteristic that defines all inland seas is their shallow depths, with none reaching more than 2,000 feet in depth.
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