The city of Yalta is located on which body of water?

Yalta is a city in southern Ukraine facing the Black Sea on the southern shore of the Crimean Peninsula. Settlement on the site dates from prehistoric times, but modern Yalta developed only in the early 19th century, becoming a town in 1838.

Its favourable climate with mild winters and its scenic location between sea and mountains make Yalta one of the most popular holiday and health resorts of Ukraine, with many hotels and sanatoriums, including one established in 1900 at the instigation of the writer-physician Anton Chekhov. Yalta is a regular port of call for passenger ships from other Black Sea ports.

The city has road links to Simferopol and Sevastopol. In February 1945, during World War II, the three chief Allied leaders met at Yalta in the Livadiya Palace in what became known as the Yalta Conference (February 4–11, 1945). It was a major World War II conference of the three chief Allied leaders—Pres. Franklin D. Roosevelt of the United States, Prime Minister Winston Churchill of the United Kingdom, and Premier Joseph Stalin of the Soviet Union—which met at Yalta in Crimea to plan the final defeat and occupation of Nazi Germany.