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Oresund

Øresund or Öresund, commonly known in English as the Sound, is a strait which forms the Danish–Swedish border, separating from . The strait has a length of 118 kilometres; its width varies from 4 kilometres to 28 kilometres.
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  • Type: Sound
  • Description: strait between Denmark and Sweden
  • Also known as: “Öresund”, “Øresund”, and “the Sound”

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Landskrona and Taarbæk.

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is a town in , . Located on the shores of the Öresund, it occupies a natural port, which has lent the town at first military and subsequent commercial significance.

Village
is a neighbourhood in . The neighbourhood covers approximately 0.5 km2, located between and Øresund. is situated 10 km west of Oresund.

Oresund

Latitude
55.79975° or 55° 47′ 59″ north
Longitude
12.74753° or 12° 44′ 51″ east
Open location code
9F7JQPXX+W2
Geo­Names ID
2612845
Wiki­data ID
Q104662
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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Yue Chinese—“Oresund” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “Sont”
  • Arabic: “أوريسند”
  • Arabic: “اوريسند”
  • Arabic: “مضيق أوريسند”
  • Armenian: “Էրեսուն”
  • Asturian: “estrechu d’Öresund”
  • Asturian: “estrechu d’Øresund”
  • Asturian: “Estrechu d’Øresund”
  • Azerbaijani: “Öresund”
  • Bashkir: “Эресунн”
  • Basque: “Oresund itsasartea”
  • Basque: “Øresund itsasartea”
  • Basque: “Øresund”
  • Basque: “Sund itsasartea”
  • Basque: “Sund”
  • Belarusian: “Праліў Эрэсун”
  • Belarusian: “Эрэсун”
  • Belarusian: “Эрэсунд”
  • Breton: “Øresund”
  • Bulgarian: “Йорезунд”
  • Bulgarian: “Йоресун”
  • Bulgarian: “Йоресунд”
  • Catalan: “Estret d’Öresund”
  • Catalan: “Estret d’Øresund”
  • Catalan: “Oresund”
  • Catalan: “Öresund”
  • Catalan: “Øresund”
  • Catalan: “Pont d’Öresund”
  • Cebuano: “The Sound (estretso sa Dinamarka)”
  • Cebuano: “The Sound”
  • Chechen: “Эресунн”
  • Chinese: “厄勒海峡”
  • Chinese: “厄勒海峽”
  • Chinese: “松德海峽”
  • Corsican: “Øresund”
  • Croatian: “Øresund”
  • Czech: “Oresund”
  • Czech: “Öresund”
  • Czech: “Øresund”
  • Czech: “Sund”
  • Danish: “Øresund”
  • Danish: “Sundet”
  • Dutch: “Oresund”
  • Dutch: “Øresund”
  • Dutch: “Sont”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “اوريسوند”
  • Esperanto: “Sundo”
  • Estonian: “Öresund”
  • Estonian: “Øresund”
  • Estonian: “Sund”
  • Faroese: “Oyrasund”
  • Finnish: “Juutinrauma”
  • Finnish: “Öresund”
  • French: “Détroit du Sund”
  • French: “Oresund”
  • French: “Öresund”
  • French: “Øresund”
  • Galician: “Öresund”
  • Galician: “Øresund”
  • Georgian: “ერესუნის სრუტე”
  • Georgian: “ორესუნის ხიდი”
  • German: “Öresund”
  • German: “Øresund”
  • Greek: “Έρεσουντ”
  • Hebrew: “אורסונד”
  • Hebrew: “ארסונד”
  • Hungarian: “Øresund”
  • Icelandic: “Eyrarsund”
  • Indonesian: “Oresund”
  • Indonesian: “Öresund”
  • Indonesian: “Øresund”
  • Irish: “Øresund”
  • Italian: “Oeresund”
  • Italian: “Oresund”
  • Italian: “Öresund”
  • Italian: “Øresund”
  • Italian: “Stretto di Oresund”
  • Italian: “Stretto di Øresund”
  • Japanese: “エーアソン海峡”
  • Japanese: “エーレスンド”
  • Japanese: “エーレスンド海峡”
  • Japanese: “エーレ海峡”
  • Japanese: “オーレスン海峡”
  • Japanese: “オーレ海峡”
  • Japanese: “オアスン”
  • Japanese: “オアスン海峡”
  • Japanese: “ズンド海峡”
  • Korean: “외레순 해협”
  • Kurdish: “Oresund”
  • Kurdish: “Öresund”
  • Kurdish: “Øresund”
  • Kurdish: “Tengava Oresund”
  • Kurdish: “Tengava Öresund”
  • Kurdish: “تەنگاڤائۆ رەسوند”
  • Latin: “Fretum Oresundicum”
  • Latin: “Oresundae fretum”
  • Latvian: “Ēresunds”
  • Latvian: “Ēresunns”
  • Latvian: “Ēresuns”
  • Latvian: “Öresund”
  • Latvian: “Øresund”
  • Lithuanian: “Eresundas”
  • Lithuanian: “Eresūno sąsiauris”
  • Low German: “Öresund”
  • Macedonian: “Ересунд”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Öresund”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Øresund”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Oresund”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Ôresund”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Öresund”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Øresund”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Øyrasund”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Øyresund”
  • Norwegian: “Øresund”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Oresund”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Øresund”
  • Ossetian: “Эресунн”
  • Persian: “تنگه اورسوند”
  • Persian: “خلیج عقبه”
  • Polish: “Sund”
  • Portuguese: “Estreito de Oeresund”
  • Portuguese: “Estreito de Öre”
  • Portuguese: “Estreito de Öresund”
  • Portuguese: “Estreito de Øresund”
  • Portuguese: “Oeresund”
  • Portuguese: “Oresund”
  • Portuguese: “Öresund”
  • Portuguese: “Øresund”
  • Romanian: “Øresund”
  • Russian: “Зунд”
  • Russian: “Зундский пролив”
  • Russian: “Орезунд”
  • Russian: “Оресунд”
  • Russian: “Эрезунд”
  • Russian: “Эресунд”
  • Russian: “Эресунн”
  • Scots: “Øresund”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “Øresund”
  • Serbian: “Eresund”
  • Serbian: “Ересунд”
  • Serbian: “Ересундски мореуз”
  • Serbian: “Саунд”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Øresund”
  • Slovak: “Oresund”
  • Slovak: “Öresund”
  • Slovenian: “Øresund”
  • Spanish: “Estrecho de Øresund”
  • Spanish: “Estrecho del Sund”
  • Spanish: “Oresund”
  • Spanish: “Öresund”
  • Spanish: “Øresund”
  • Spanish: “Sund”
  • Swahili: “Oresund”
  • Swedish: “Öresund”
  • Tahitian: “Øresund”
  • Tamil: “ஒரிசவுண்ட்”
  • Tatar: “Өресунд”
  • Thai: “เออเรซุนด์”
  • Turkish: “Öresund Boğazı”
  • Turkish: “Oresund”
  • Turkish: “Öresund”
  • Turkish: “Øresund”
  • Ukrainian: “Ересунн”
  • Ukrainian: “Ересуннська протока”
  • Ukrainian: “Зунд”
  • Ukrainian: “Орезунд”
  • Urdu: “آبنائے اوریسند”
  • Urdu: “آبنائے اوریسوند”
  • Uzbek: “Eresunn boʻgʻozi”
  • Vietnamese: “Eo biển Oresund”
  • Vietnamese: “Eo biển Øresund”
  • Vietnamese: “Øresund”
  • Vlaams: “Sont”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Øresund”
  • Welsh: “Øresund”
  • Western Frisian: “Sont”
  • Wu Chinese: “厄勒海峡”
  • Yue Chinese: “松德海峽”

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