<Tr> <Th> Total </Th> <Th> 3,739.1 </Th> <Th> 4,102 </Th> <Th> 7,841.1 </Th> <Th> 1,836.5 </Th> </Tr> <Tr> <Td_colspan="5"> Notes: The distance between the extreme points of each state's coastline, Not including islands in coastal lagoons </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Td_colspan="6"> 1.000 mi = 1.609 km; 1.000 km = 0.621 mi </Td> </Tr> <P> The Adriatic Sea contains more than 1,300 islands and islets, most along the Adriatic's eastern coast--especially in Croatia, with 1,246 counted . The number includes islands, islets, and rocks of all sizes, including ones emerging at ebb tide only . The Croatian islands include the largest--Cres and Krk, each covering about the same area of 405.78 square kilometres (156.67 sq mi)--and the tallest--Brač, whose peak reaches 780 metres (2,560 ft) above sea level . The islands of Cres and the adjacent Lošinj are separated only by a narrow navigable canal dug in the time of classical antiquity; the original single island was known to the Greeks as Apsyrtides . The Croatian islands include 47 permanently inhabited ones, the most populous among them being Krk, Korčula and Brač . The islands along the Adriatic's western (Italian) coast are smaller and less numerous than those along the opposite coast; the best - known ones are the 117 islands on which the city of Venice is built . The northern shore of the Greek island of Corfu also lies in the Adriatic Sea as defined by the IHO . The IHO boundary places a few smaller Greek islands (ones northwest of Corfu) in the Adriatic Sea . </P>

Towards the middle cretaceous the total global length of coastlines was