Kvarken
Kvarken is the narrow region of the Gulf of Bothnia separating the Bothnian Bay from the Bothnian Sea. The distance from the Swedish mainland to the Finnish mainland is around 80 km, while the distance between the outermost islands is only 25 km.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Strait
- Description: marine region in the Gulf of Bothnia between Sweden and Finland
- Also known as: “Kvarken - Merenkurkku”, “Merenkurkku”, “Norra Kvarken”, “Norra Quarken”, “North Quarken”, “Qvarken”, and “The Quark”
Kvarken
- Categories: channel and body of water
- Location: Finland, Nordic countries, Europe
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
63.41279° or 63° 24′ 46″ northLongitude
20.93416° or 20° 56′ 3″ eastOpen location code
9GM2CW7M+4MOpenStreetMap ID
way 696904201OpenStreetMap feature
natural=straitGeoNames ID
646200Wikidata ID
Q217245
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Asturian to Vietnamese—“Kvarken” goes by many names.
- Asturian: “Kvarken”
- Azerbaijani: “Şimali Kvarken boğazı”
- Basque: “Kvarken”
- Belarusian: “Кваркен”
- Belarusian: “Праліў Кваркен”
- Bulgarian: “Норра Кваркен”
- Catalan: “Kvarken”
- Cebuano: “Norra Kvarken”
- Chinese: “北克瓦尔肯海峡”
- Chinese: “北克瓦爾肯海峽”
- Croatian: “Kvarken”
- Croatian: “Merenkurkku”
- Croatian: “Norra Kvarken”
- Croatian: “Qvarken”
- Czech: “Kvarken”
- Danish: “Kvarken”
- Dutch: “Kvarken”
- Dutch: “Merenkurkku”
- Dutch: “Norra Kvarken”
- Esperanto: “Kvarken”
- Estonian: “Merenkurkku”
- Estonian: “Põhja-Kvarkeni väin”
- Finnish: “Kvarken”
- Finnish: “Merenkurkku”
- Finnish: “Norra Kvarken”
- Finnish: “Qvarken”
- French: “Kvarken”
- French: “Merenkurkku”
- Georgian: “კვარკენი”
- German: “Kvarken”
- German: “Merenkurkku”
- German: “Norra Kvarken”
- German: “Qvarken”
- Hebrew: “ארכיפלג קווארקן”
- Hindi: “क्वार्केन”
- Hungarian: “Merenkurkku szigetvilága”
- Inari Sami: “Merâčuudâ”
- Italian: “Kvarken”
- Italian: “Merenkurkku”
- Japanese: “クヴァルケン”
- Korean: “크바르켄”
- Latvian: “Kvarkens”
- Lithuanian: “Kvarkenas”
- Maithili: “भार्केन टापुसमूह”
- Malayalam: “ക്വാർക്കെൻ”
- Nepali: “भार्केन टापुसमूह”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Kvarken”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Norra kvarken”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Kvarken”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Merenkurkku”
- Norwegian: “Kvarken”
- Persian: “کوارکن”
- Polish: “Kvarken Północny”
- Polish: “Kvarken”
- Portuguese: “Estreito de Kvarken”
- Portuguese: “Kvarken”
- Portuguese: “Merenkurkku”
- Portuguese: “Norra Kvarken”
- Portuguese: “Qvarken”
- Romanian: “Kvarken”
- Russian: “Кваркен Северный”
- Russian: “Кваркен”
- Russian: “Норра-Кваркен”
- Russian: “Северный Кваркен”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Kvarken”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Merenkurkku”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Norra Kvarken”
- Slovak: “Kvarken”
- Slovenian: “Kvarken”
- Spanish: “Kvarken”
- Swedish: “Kvarken”
- Swedish: “Norra Kvarken”
- Swedish: “Qvarken”
- Turkish: “Kvarken”
- Ukrainian: “Кваркен Північний”
- Ukrainian: “Північний Кваркен”
- Vietnamese: “Kvarken”
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