THE PLACE OF THE ST. PETERSBURG COASTAL REGION IN SYSTEM OF THE LEADING COASTAL REGIONS OF EUROPE
Identification of the St. Petersburg coastal region is carried out, its place in system of key seaside territories of Europe is defined. Identification of borders of the St. Petersburg coastal region (its kernel the world city - St. Petersburg, with the periphery, which together with the periphery represents one of "global city areas" acts) was based on approach, traditional for domestic science and geographical science, to delimitation of coastal zones (presence at a territorial and economic complex of "a sea component" and localization on remoteness to 200 km from the coast); it is established that population of the St. Petersburg coastal region reaches 7,5 million people, and the area of the territory - 110,5 thousands km2. With a support on analytics on the European coastal regions it is shown that their main competitive advantages are existence of sea (port) infrastructure together with airport terminal, and also close connections among themselves.