Nemuro Strait
Nemuro Strait, also called Notsuke Strait and Kunashirsky Strait, is a strait separating Kunashir Island of the Kuril Islands, Russia from the Shiretoko Peninsula, Hokkaidō, Japan.- Type: Strait
- Description: strait between Hokkaido, Japan, and the Kuril Islands administered by Russia
- Also known as: “Ezo-kaikyō”, “Hokkaido Str.”, “Hokkaido Strait”, “Kunashir Strait”, “Kunashiraskiy Proliv”, “Kunashirskiy Proliv”, “Nemoro-kaikio”, “Nemoro-kaikyō”, “Nemuro-kaikyō”, “Str. of Hokkaido”, “Str. of Yeso”, “Strait of Hokkaido”, “Strait of Yeso”, “Yeso Str.”, and “Yeso Strait”
Nemuro Strait
- Category: body of water
- Location: Sakhalin Oblast, Russian Far East, Russia, Eastern Europe, Europe
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Azerbaijani to Ukrainian—“Nemuro Strait” goes by many names.
- Azerbaijani: “Kunaşir boğazı”
- Bulgarian: “Кунаширски проток”
- Bulgarian: “Немуро”
- Cebuano: “Nemuro Strait”
- Chinese: “根室海峡”
- Chinese: “根室海峽”
- Croatian: “Tjesnac Nemuro”
- Czech: “Kunaširský průliv”
- Dutch: “Koenasjirskiy proliv”
- Dutch: “Straat van Kunashir”
- Dutch: “Straat van Nemuro”
- Estonian: “Kunaširi väin”
- Estonian: “Nemuro väin”
- French: “détroit de Nemuro”
- French: “Détroit de Nemuro”
- German: “Nemuro-Strasse”
- German: “Nemuro-Straße”
- German: “Straße von Kunaschir”
- Hebrew: “מצר נמורו”
- Italian: “Stretto di Nemuro”
- Japanese: “ねむろかいきょう”
- Japanese: “ネムロカイキョウ”
- Japanese: “根室海峡”
- Korean: “네무로 해협”
- Korean: “쿠나시르 해협”
- Korean: “쿠나시르스키 해협”
- Polish: “Cieśnina Kunaszyrska”
- Polish: “Cieśnina Nemuro”
- Portuguese: “Estreito de Nemuro”
- Russian: “Кунаширский пролив”
- Russian: “Пролив Немуро”
- Slovak: “Kunaširský prieliv”
- Slovenian: “preliv Nemuro”
- Turkish: “Nemuro Boğazı”
- Ukrainian: “Кунаширська протока”
- Ukrainian: “Немуро”
- Ukrainian: “Протока Немуро”
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