White Sea

The White Sea is a southern inlet of the Barents Sea located on the northwest coast of . It is surrounded by Karelia to the west, the Kola Peninsula to the north, and the to the northeast.
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  • Type: Sea
  • Description: marginal sea of the Arctic Ocean
  • Also known as: “Album mare”, “Bạch Hải”, “Beloe More”, “Beloje more”, “Beloye More”, “Beyaz Deniz”, “Granduicus sinus”, “Hvitehavet”, “Kvitehavet”, “Kvithavet”, “mar Blanc”, “Puting Dagat”, “Sea of Darkness”, “Valkoinen meri”, “Valkoinenmeri”, “Vienan meri”, “Weißmeer”, “Wit See”, “Бе́лое мо́ре”, “Бијело море”, “خلیج عقبه”, “पांढरा समुद्र”, and “ทะเลดวินา”
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White Sea

Latitude
65.5° or 65° 30′ north
Longitude
38° east
Open location code
9GQWG222+22
Geo­Names ID
577742
Wiki­data ID
Q44133
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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Yue Chinese—“White Sea” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “Witsee”
  • Albanian: “Deti i Bardhë”
  • Arabic: “البحر الأبيض”
  • Armenian: “Սպիտակ ծով”
  • Asturian: “mar Blancu”
  • Asturian: “Mar Blancu”
  • Azerbaijani: “Ağ dəniz”
  • Balinese: “Segara Putih”
  • Bashkir: “Аҡ диңгеҙ”
  • Basque: “Itsaso Zuria”
  • Belarusian: “Белае мора”
  • Bengali: “শ্বেত ‍সাগর”
  • Bengali: “শ্বেত সাগর”
  • Bosnian: “Bijelo more”
  • Breton: “Mor Gwenn”
  • Bulgarian: “Бяло море”
  • Catalan: “mar Blanca”
  • Catalan: “Mar Blanca”
  • Cebuano: “White Sea”
  • Central Bikol: “Dagat Puti”
  • Chechen: “КӀайн хӀорд”
  • Chinese: “白海”
  • Chuvash: “Шурă тинĕс”
  • Croatian: “Bijelo more”
  • Czech: “Bílé moře”
  • Danish: “Hvidehavet”
  • Dutch: “Witte Zee”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “البحر الابيض”
  • Esperanto: “Blanka maro”
  • Esperanto: “Blanka Maro”
  • Estonian: “Valge meri”
  • Fiji Hindi: “Ujjar Samundar”
  • Fiji Hindi: “White Samundar”
  • Finnish: “Vienanmeri”
  • French: “mer Blanche”
  • French: “Mer Blanche”
  • Galician: “Mar Branco”
  • Georgian: “თეთრი ზღვა”
  • German: “Weisses Meer”
  • German: “Weißes Meer”
  • Greek: “Λευκή Θάλασσα”
  • Hebrew: “הים הלבן”
  • Hindi: “श्वेत सागर”
  • Hungarian: “Fehér-tenger”
  • Icelandic: “Hvítahaf”
  • Ido: “Blanka maro”
  • Iloko: “Baybay Puraw”
  • Indonesian: “Laut Putih”
  • Irish: “an Mhuir Bhán”
  • Italian: “Mar Bianco”
  • Japanese: “白海”
  • Karachay-Balkar: “Акъ тенгиз”
  • Kazakh: “Ақ теңіз”
  • Kazakh: “Ақ теңізі”
  • Kildin Sami: “Вӣллькесь ме̄рр”
  • Kirghiz: “Ак деңиз”
  • Komi: “Еджыд саридз”
  • Korean: “백해”
  • Latin: “Mare Album”
  • Latvian: “Baltā jūra”
  • Limburgan: “Witte Zieë”
  • Lithuanian: “Baltoji jūra”
  • Livvi: “Vienanmeri”
  • Low German: “Witte See”
  • Lower Sorbian: “Běłe mórjo”
  • Luxembourgish: “Wäisst Mier”
  • Macedonian: “Бело Море”
  • Malay: “Laut Putih”
  • Malayalam: “വൈറ്റ് സീ”
  • Maltese: “Baħar l-Abjad”
  • Manx: “Yn Vooir Vane”
  • Marathi: “श्वेत समुद्र”
  • Mazanderani: “اسپه دریا”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Byeloye Hái”
  • Mingrelian: “ჩე ზუღა”
  • Mongolian: “Цагаан тэнгис”
  • Northern Frisian: “Witj Sia”
  • Northern Sami: “Vilgesmearra”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Kvitsjøen”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Kvitsjøen”
  • Norwegian: “Beloje More”
  • Norwegian: “Kvitsjøen”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Mar Blanca”
  • Old English (ca. 450-1100): “Cwēnsǣ”
  • Ossetian: “Урс денджыз”
  • Panjabi: “ਚਿੱਟਾ ਸਮੁੰਦਰ”
  • Panjabi: “ਚਿੱਟਾ ਸਾਗਰ”
  • Persian: “دریای سفید”
  • Polish: “Morze Białe”
  • Portuguese: “Mar Branco”
  • Romanian: “Marea Albă”
  • Russian: “Белое море”
  • Russian: “Белое Море”
  • Serbian: “Бело море”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Bijelo more”
  • Sindhi: “اڇو سمنڊ”
  • Skolt Sami: “Viõʹlǧǧesmiârr”
  • Slovak: “Biele more”
  • Slovenian: “Belo morje”
  • South Azerbaijani: “آغ دنیز”
  • Spanish: “mar Blanco”
  • Spanish: “Mar Blanco”
  • Swahili: “Bahari Nyeupe”
  • Swedish: “Vita havet”
  • Tagalog: “Dagat na Puti”
  • Tagalog: “Dagat Puti”
  • Tajik: “Баҳри сафед”
  • Tajik: “Баҳри Сафед”
  • Tamil: “வெள்ளைக் கடல்”
  • Tatar: “Ак диңгез”
  • Telugu: “తెల్ల సముద్రం”
  • Thai: “ทะเลขาว”
  • Turkish: “Beyazdeniz”
  • Ukrainian: “Біле море”
  • Upper Sorbian: “Běłe morjo”
  • Urdu: “بحیرہ ابیض”
  • Uzbek: “Oq dengiz”
  • Veps: “Vauged meri”
  • Vietnamese: “Biển Trắng”
  • Vlaams: “Witte Zêe”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Busag nga Dagat”
  • Welsh: “Môr Gwyn”
  • Western Frisian: “Wite See”
  • Western Panjabi: “چٹا سمندر”
  • Wu Chinese: “白海”
  • Yakut: “Маҥан байҕал”
  • Yue Chinese: “白海”

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