The Minch
The Minch is a strait in north-west Scotland that separates the mainland from Lewis and Harris in the Outer Hebrides. It was known as Skotlandsfjörð in Old Norse.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Strait
- Description: strait between the Inner and Outer Hebrides, Scotland
- Also known as: “North Minch” and “The Minch - A‘ Mhaoil”
The Minch
- Category: body of water
- Location: United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
58.04714° or 58° 2′ 50″ northLongitude
-5.91071° or 5° 54′ 39″ westOpen location code
9CCP23WQ+VPOpenStreetMap ID
way 704093876OpenStreetMap feature
natural=straitGeoNames ID
2642453Wikidata ID
Q1143789
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Satellite Map
Discover The Minch from above in high-definition satellite imagery.
In Other Languages
From Afrikaans to Welsh—“The Minch” goes by many names.
- Afrikaans: “Klein Minch”
- Afrikaans: “Little Minch”
- Afrikaans: “Minch”
- Afrikaans: “The Minch”
- Arabic: “مضيق منتش”
- Asturian: “El Minch”
- Azerbaijani: “Nort-Minc boğazı”
- Azerbaijani: “Nort-Minç boğazı”
- Belarusian: “Норт-Мінч”
- Breton: “Minch”
- Breton: “The Minch”
- Catalan: “The Minch”
- Cebuano: “The Minch”
- Chinese: “明奇海峡”
- Chinese: “明奇海峽”
- Czech: “Severní Minch”
- Czech: “Velký Minch”
- Czech: “záliv Minch”
- Dutch: “Minch”
- Estonian: “The Minch”
- Finnish: “Minch”
- French: “An Cuan Sgìth”
- French: “Cuan na Hearadh”
- French: “Minch”
- French: “The Minch”
- French: “The North Minch”
- German: “An Cuan Canach”
- German: “An Cuan Leòdhasach”
- German: “An Cuan Sgìth”
- German: “Cuan na Hearadh”
- German: “Minch”
- German: “Minchkanal”
- German: “North Minch”
- German: “Skotlandsfjörð”
- German: “The Little Minch”
- German: “The Lower Minch”
- German: “The Minch”
- German: “The North Minch”
- Hebrew: “מינץ‘”
- Irish: “An Cuan Sgìth”
- Irish: “An Cuan Sgitheanach”
- Irish: “Cuan na Hearadh”
- Italian: “North Minch”
- Italian: “The Minch”
- Japanese: “ミンチ海峡”
- Kazakh: “Норт-Минч”
- Korean: “민치 해협”
- Latvian: “Minčs”
- Macedonian: “Минч”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “The Minch”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “An Cuan Canach”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “An Cuan Leòdhasach”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “An Cuan Sgìth”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Cuan na Hearadh”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Little Minch”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Minch”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Skotlandsfjörð”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Skottlandsfjorden”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “The Little Minch”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “The Lower Minch”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “The Minch”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “The North Minch”
- Norwegian: “The Minch”
- Polish: “Minch”
- Polish: “North Minch”
- Polish: “The Minch”
- Portuguese: “O Minch”
- Portuguese: “The Minch”
- Russian: “Норт-Минч”
- Scottish Gaelic: “An Cuan Sgiathanach”
- Scottish Gaelic: “An Cuan Sgìth”
- Scottish Gaelic: “An Cuan Sgitheanach”
- Scottish Gaelic: “Cuan na Hearadh”
- Scottish Gaelic: “Cuan Sgiathanach”
- Scottish Gaelic: “Cuan Sgitheanach”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Minch”
- Slovak: “Minčský prieliv”
- Slovenian: “Minč”
- Slovenian: “North Minch”
- Slovenian: “Severni Minč”
- Slovenian: “The Minch”
- Spanish: “El Minch”
- Spanish: “Estrecho de Minch”
- Swedish: “The Minch”
- Ukrainian: “Норт-Мінч”
- Welsh: “Minch”
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