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Cardigan Bay

Cardigan Bay is a large inlet of the , indenting the west coast of between , in the north, and , at its southern end. It is the largest bay in Wales.
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  • Type: Bay
  • Description: bay in Wales
  • Also known as: “Bae Ceredigion / Cardigan Bay” and “Port Cardigan”
  • Neighbors:

Cardigan Bay

Latitude
52.47006° or 52° 28′ 12″ north
Longitude
-4.57289° or 4° 34′ 22″ west
Open location code
9C4QFCCG+2R
Open­Street­Map ID
way 651881240
Open­Street­Map feature
natural=­bay
Geo­Names ID
2653817
Wiki­data ID
Q747189
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Satellite Map

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In Other Languages

From Basque to Welsh—“Cardigan Bay” goes by many names.
  • Basque: “Cardigango badia”
  • Belarusian: “Кардыган”
  • Breton: “Bae Ceredigion”
  • Catalan: “badia de Cardigan”
  • Cebuano: “Cardigan (luuk)”
  • Cebuano: “Cardigan”
  • Chinese: “卡迪根灣”
  • Czech: “Cardiganský záliv”
  • Danish: “Cardigan Bay”
  • Dutch: “Cardigan Bay”
  • Esperanto: “Golfo Cardigan”
  • French: “baie de Cardigan”
  • French: “Baie de Cardigan”
  • Galician: “Baía de Cardigan”
  • German: “Cardigan Bay”
  • Hebrew: “מפרץ קרדיגן”
  • Irish: “Bá Ceredigion”
  • Italian: “baia di Cardigan”
  • Italian: “Baia di Cardigan”
  • Japanese: “カーディガン湾”
  • Latin: “Sinus Cereticensis”
  • Latvian: “Kārdiganas līcis”
  • Lithuanian: “Kardigano įlanka”
  • Livvi: “Bae Ceredigion”
  • Macedonian: “Кардигански Залив”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Cardigan Bay”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Cardigan Bay”
  • Polish: “Cardigan”
  • Polish: “Zatoka Cardigan”
  • Portuguese: “Baía de Cardigan”
  • Russian: “Кардиган”
  • Spanish: “Bahia de Cardigan”
  • Spanish: “Bahía de Cardigan”
  • Swedish: “Cardigan (vik)”
  • Swedish: “Cardigan”
  • Swedish: “Cardiganbukten”
  • Tatar: “Кардиган култыгы”
  • Turkish: “Cardigan Körfezi”
  • Venetian: “Baja de Cardigan”
  • Welsh: “Bae Ceredigion”

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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Cardigan Bay”. Photo: grahamwell, CC BY-SA 2.0.