Little Belt
The Little Belt is a strait between the island of Funen and the Jutland Peninsula in Denmark. It is one of the three Danish Straits that drain and connect the Baltic Sea to the Kattegat strait, which drains west to the North Sea and Atlantic Ocean.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Strait
- Description: strait between Jutland & Funen, Denmark
- Also known as: “Lille Belt”, “Lillebaelt”, and “The Little Belt”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Brandsø.
Brandsø
Island
Brandsø is a small, uninhabited Danish island located in Little Belt between Jutland and Funen, 15 km to the north-west of Assens. It has an area of 2.0 km2 it lies in Middelfart Municipality and belongs to the Wedellsborg estate. Brandsø is situated 4 km northwest of Little Belt.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Aarøsund.
Aarøsund
Village
Photo: Hjart, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Aarøsund is a village in southern Denmark situated in the region of Sønderjylland 15 kilometres east of Haderslev. It is also the name of the narrow strait between the village and the island of Årø. Aarøsund is situated 9 km south of Little Belt.
Little Belt
- Category: body of water
- Location: Denmark, Nordic countries, Europe
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Vlaams—“Little Belt” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “الحزام الصغير”
- Armenian: “Բելտ”
- Azerbaijani: “Kiçik Kəmər”
- Basque: “Belt Txikia”
- Belarusian: “Малы Бельт”
- Belarusian: “Праліў Малы Бельт”
- Bulgarian: “Лилебелт”
- Catalan: “Belt”
- Catalan: “Petit Belt”
- Cebuano: “Lillebælt”
- Chechen: “Жима Бельт”
- Chinese: “小貝爾特海峽”
- Chinese: “小贝尔特海峡”
- Croatian: “Mali Belt”
- Czech: “Lillebælt”
- Czech: “Malý Belt”
- Danish: “Lillebælt”
- Dutch: “Kleine Belt”
- Esperanto: “Eta Belto”
- Esperanto: “Lillebælt”
- Estonian: “Väike Belt”
- Estonian: “Väike-Belt”
- Finnish: “Vähä-Belt”
- Finnish: “Vähä-Beltti”
- French: “Petit Belt”
- Georgian: “ბელტი მცირე”
- Georgian: “მცირე ბელტი”
- Georgian: “პატარა ბელტი”
- German: “Kleiner Belt”
- Hebrew: “החגורה הקטנה”
- Hungarian: “Kis-Bælt”
- Icelandic: “Litla-Belti”
- Icelandic: “Litlabelti”
- Irish: “Belt Beaga”
- Italian: “Piccola Cintura”
- Italian: “Piccolo Belt”
- Japanese: “リトル・ベルト”
- Japanese: “リトルベルト”
- Japanese: “リトルベルト海峡”
- Japanese: “リレベルト”
- Japanese: “リレ海峡”
- Japanese: “小ベルト”
- Japanese: “小ベルト海峡”
- Korean: “릴레벨트 해협”
- Kurdish: “Belta Biçûk”
- Kurdish: “بەلتا بچووک”
- Latin: “Balticum Fretum Minus”
- Latvian: “Mazais Belts”
- Lithuanian: “Mažasis Beltas”
- Lithuanian: “Mažojo Belto sąsiauris”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Lillebælt”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Lillebelt”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Lillebælt”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Lillebelt”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Little Belt”
- Norwegian: “Lillebælt”
- Polish: “Lillebælt”
- Polish: “Mały Bełt”
- Portuguese: “Pequeno Belt”
- Russian: “Бельт Малый”
- Russian: “Малый Бельт”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Mali Belt”
- Slovak: “Malý Belt”
- Slovenian: “Mali Belt”
- Spanish: “Lillebælt”
- Spanish: “Pequeno Belt”
- Spanish: “Pequeño Belt”
- Swedish: “Lilla Bält”
- Swedish: “Lilla Belt”
- Swedish: “Lillebælt”
- Turkish: “Küçük Kemer”
- Ukrainian: “Малий Бельт”
- Vietnamese: “Eo biển Lillebælt”
- Vlaams: “Klêen’n Belt”
Localities in the Area
Explore places such as Sommerodde and Bågø By.
Notable Places Nearby
Highlights include Egholm and Wedellsborg Bådehavn.
Denmark: Must-Visit Destinations
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