Fore-Caucasus (Russian: Предкавказье, sometimes Forecaucasus, Front Caucasus) is a territory to the North of the Caucasus Major (Большой Кавказ) mountain system of Caucasus and further bounded by Kuma-Manych Depression from the North, Sea of Azov and Kerch Strait from the West, and Caspian Sea from the East. Greater Caucasus (Russian: , sometimes translated as Caucasus Major, Big Caucasus or Large Caucasus) is the major mountain range of Caucasus mountains. ... Mount McKinley in Alaska has one of the largest visible base-to-summit elevation differences anywhere A mountain is a landform that extends above the surrounding terrain in a limited area. ... The Caucasus , a region bordering Asia Minor, is located between the Black Sea and the Caspian Sea which includes the Caucasus Mountains and surrounding lowlands. ... The Kuma-Manych Depression (Russian: Кумо-МанычÑÐºÐ°Ñ Ð²Ð¿Ð°Ð´Ð¸Ð½Ð°, Kumo-manychskaya Vpadina), also called Manych, or ManyÄ, is a geologic depression in western Russia that divides the Russian Plain (north) from the North Caucasus foreland (south). ... The shallow Sea of Azov is clearly distinguished from the deeper Black Sea. ... Kerch Strait. ... Caspian Sea viewed from orbit The Caspian Sea or Mazandaran Sea is a landlocked sea between Asia and Europe (European Russia). ...
Its administrative center is the city of Krasnodar (pop.
Krasnodar Krai encompasses the western part of the Forecaucasus and a part of the northern slopes of Caucasus Major.
Krasnodar Krai borders, clockwise from the west, Ukraine—from which it is separated by the Strait of Kerch and the Sea of Azov—Russia's Rostov Oblast, Stavropol Krai, and the Republic of Karachay-Cherkessia, and Georgia's breakaway republic of Abkhazia.
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