It was named after the town of
Piran, and its shores are shared by
Croatia and
Slovenia. It is delimited by a line connecting Cape Savudrija (
Savudrijski rt) in the south to the Cape Madona (
Rt Madona) in the north and measures around . On the eastern Slovenian coast lies the town of
Piran, and the settlements
Portorož and
Lucija. On the southern Croatian coast are tourist camps of
Crveni Vrh and
Kanegra, built in the 1980s. The main river flowing into the gulf is the
Dragonja, whose mouth is on the border. Along the mouth of the Dragonja lie the
Sečovlje saltpans, covering an area of . The Gulf area has been a theatre of a
maritime and land border dispute between Slovenia and Croatia. ==External links==