Great Belt
The Great Belt is a strait between the major islands of Zealand and Funen in Denmark. It is one of the three Danish Straits. Effectively dividing Denmark in two, the Belt was served by the Great Belt ferries from the late 19th century until the islands were connected by the Great Belt Fixed Link in 1997–98.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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Great Belt
- Category: body of water
- Location: Denmark, Nordic countries, Europe
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Latitude
55.48766° or 55° 29′ 16″ northLongitude
10.87646° or 10° 52′ 35″ eastOpen location code
9F7GFVQG+3HOpenStreetMap ID
way 486310481OpenStreetMap feature
natural=straitGeoNames ID
2612449Wikidata ID
Q204715
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Western Frisian—“Great Belt” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “الحزام الكبير”
- Azerbaijani: “Böyük Kəmər”
- Basque: “Belt Handia”
- Belarusian: “Вялікі Бельт”
- Belarusian: “Праліў Вялікі Бельт”
- Bulgarian: “Стурабелт”
- Catalan: “Gran Belt”
- Catalan: “Storebælt”
- Cebuano: “Storebælt”
- Chechen: “Йоккха Бельт”
- Chinese: “大貝爾特海峽”
- Chinese: “大贝尔特海峡”
- Croatian: “Veliki Belt”
- Czech: “Storebælt”
- Czech: “Velký Belt”
- Danish: “Store Bælt”
- Danish: “Storebælt”
- Dimli (individual language): “Beltê Gırd”
- Dimli (individual language): “Kembero Gırd”
- Dutch: “Grote Belt”
- Esperanto: “Granda Belto”
- Esperanto: “Storebælt”
- Estonian: “Suur-Belt”
- Finnish: “Iso-Belt”
- Finnish: “Iso-Beltti”
- French: “Grand Belt”
- Galician: “Gran Belt”
- Georgian: “ბელტი დიდი”
- Georgian: “დიდი ბელტი”
- German: “Grosser Belt”
- German: “Großer Belt”
- Hebrew: “החגורה הגדולה”
- Hungarian: “Nagy-Bælt”
- Icelandic: “Stóra-Belti”
- Icelandic: “Stórabelti”
- Italian: “Grande Belt”
- Italian: “Storebælt”
- Japanese: “グレート・ベルト”
- Japanese: “グレート・ベルト海峡”
- Japanese: “グレートベルト”
- Japanese: “グレートベルト海峡”
- Japanese: “ストアベルト”
- Japanese: “ストア海峡”
- Japanese: “ストレベルト”
- Japanese: “ストレ海峡”
- Japanese: “大ベルト”
- Japanese: “大ベルト海峡”
- Korean: “스토레벨트 해협”
- Kurdish: “Belta Mezin”
- Kurdish: “بەلتا مەزن”
- Latin: “Balticum Fretum Maius”
- Latvian: “Lielais Belts”
- Lithuanian: “Didysis Beltas”
- Lithuanian: “Didžiojo Belto sąsiauris”
- Macedonian: “Голем Белт”
- Moksha: “Оцю Белти”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Storebælt”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Storebelt”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Store Bælt”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Storebælt”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Storebelt”
- Norwegian: “Storebælt”
- Persian: “دریاچه گریت بلت”
- Polish: “Wielki Bełt”
- Portuguese: “Grande Belt”
- Russian: “Бельт Большой”
- Russian: “Большой Бельт”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Veliki Belt”
- Slovak: “Storebælt”
- Slovak: “Veľký Belt”
- Slovenian: “Veliki Belt”
- Spanish: “Gran Belt”
- Swahili: “Belt Kubwa”
- Swahili: “Belt Mkubwa”
- Swahili: “Great Belt”
- Swedish: “Stora Bält”
- Turkish: “Büyük Kemer”
- Ukrainian: “Великий Бельт”
- Vietnamese: “Eo biển Storebælt”
- Vlaams: “Grôotn Belt”
- Western Frisian: “Grutte Belt”
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