Isthmus of Perekop

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The Isthmus of Perekop (Ukrainian: Перекопський перешийок, Russian: , ) is the narrow, three- to four-mile-wide strip of land that connects the peninsula of Crimea to the continent.

As of 2006 the area was a focus for ongoing territorial and sovereignty disputes between Ukraine and Russia relating to Crimea.

Its original name, in Crimean Tatar, is Or.

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