Great Belt

The Great Belt is a strait between the major islands of and in . 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.
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Latitude
55.48766° or 55° 29′ 16″ north
Longitude
10.87646° or 10° 52′ 35″ east
Open location code
9F7GFVQG+3H
Open­Street­Map ID
way 486310481
Open­Street­Map feature
natural=­strait
Geo­Names ID
2612449
Wiki­data 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”
  • 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”
  • Greek: “Μεγάλο Μπελτ”
  • Hebrew: “החגורה הגדולה”
  • Hungarian: “Nagy-Bælt”
  • Icelandic: “Stóra-Belti”
  • Italian: “Grande Belt”
  • Italian: “Storebælt”
  • 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: “Storebelt”
  • Norwegian: “Storebælt”
  • Persian: “کمربند بزرگ”
  • Persian: “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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