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The Danish straits are the straits connecting the Baltic Sea to the North Sea through the Kattegat and Skagerrak. Historically, the Danish straits were internal waterways of Denmark ; however, following territorial losses, Øresund and Fehmarn Belt are now shared with Sweden and Germany , while the Great Belt and the Little Belt have remained ...
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The Great Belt (Danish: Storebælt, pronounced...
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The Denmark Strait (Danish: Danmarksstrædet) or Greenland...
- Great Belt - Wikipedia
Øresund or Öresund ( UK: / ˌɜːrəˈsʊnd /, US: / ˈɜːrəsʌn, - sʊnd, ˈɔːrəsʊnd /; [1] [2] [3] Danish: Øresund [ˈøːɐˌsɔnˀ]; Swedish: Öresund [œːrɛˈsɵnːd] ), [4] commonly known in English as the Sound, [5] is a strait which forms the Danish–Swedish border, separating Zealand ( Denmark) from Scania ( Sweden ).
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The Kattegat (Danish: [ˈkʰætəkæt]; Swedish: Kattegatt [ˈkâtːɛˌɡat]) is a 30,000 km 2 (12,000 sq mi) sea area bounded by the Jutlandic peninsula in the west, the Danish Straits islands of Denmark and the Baltic Sea to the south and the provinces of Bohuslän, Västergötland, Halland and Skåne in Sweden in the east.
The Danish straits are the straits connecting the Baltic Sea to the North Sea through the Kattegat and Skagerrak. Historically, the Danish straits were internal waterways of Denmark; however, following territorial losses, Øresund and Fehmarn Belt are now shared with Sweden and Germany, while the Great Belt and the Little Belt have remained ...
May 10, 2023 · Image credit Lars Meinel via Shutterstock. The Great Belt ( Storebaelt in Danish) is a section of the Danish Sea that connects the waters to the Baltic Sea and the Atlantic Ocean. The Great Belt is the largest strait in the Danish Sea, with the Oresund and Little Belt being the other significant straits in the waterway.
