Aren't the Black Sea and the Caspian Sea just big lakes?

Caspian sea is indeed a lake, a huge one, the largest there is. Check this out List of lakes by area. The same, however, is not true for Black sea. It is a sea. Check this Unique Facts About Europe: The Black Sea. read more

Caspian sea is indeed a lake, a huge one, the largest there is. Check this out List of lakes by area. The same, however, is not true for Black sea. It is a sea. Check this Unique Facts About Europe: The Black Sea read more

Indeed, It's a large Salt water Lake and not a sea because there is no strait leading from it to the ocean.And Caspian Sea is the largest lake in the world. But in the ancient time people noticed that it was salty and large, So they considered as sea. read more

Actually the Black Sea is not a land locked sea like the Caspian. It's connected to the Marmara Sea via the Bosphorus Strait (not a river), which connects to the Aegean Sea via the Dardanelles Strait, which leads to the Mediterranean, which leads to the Atlantic Ocean. read more