Spitsbergen
Spitsbergen is the largest and the only permanently populated island of the Svalbard archipelago in northern Norway in the Arctic Ocean. Constituting the westernmost bulk of the archipelago, it borders the Arctic Ocean, the Norwegian Sea and the Greenland Sea.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Island
- Description: largest island of the Svalbard archipelago in northern Norway
- Also known as: “Bolschoy Broun”, “Das Westland”, “Grand Spizbergue”, “Grossspitzbergen”, “Het Eyland Spitsbergen”, “Länsi-Huippuvuoret”, “Spitspergen”, “Spitzberg Ouest”, “Spitzbergen”, “Vestspitsbergen”, and “Westinsel”
- Historically known as: “West Island”, “West Spitsbergen”, “West Spitzbergen”, and “West-Spetsbergen”
Spitsbergen
- Category: landform
- Location: Spitsbergen, Svalbard, Norway, Nordic countries, Europe
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In Other Languages
From Afrikaans to Yue Chinese—“Spitsbergen” goes by many names.
- Afrikaans: “Spitsbergen”
- Arabic: “سبيتسبرغن”
- Armenian: “Արևմտյան Շպիցբերգեն”
- Asturian: “Spitsbergen”
- Azerbaijani: “Qərbi Şpisbergen”
- Bashkir: “Көнбайыш Шпицберген”
- Basque: “Spitsbergen”
- Basque: “Spitzberg”
- Belarusian: “Заходні Шпіцберген”
- Belarusian: “Заходні Шпіцбэрген”
- Breton: “Spitsbergen”
- Bulgarian: “Шпицберген”
- Catalan: “Spitsbergen”
- Catalan: “Spitzberg”
- Catalan: “Spitzbergen”
- Cebuano: “Spitsbergen”
- Chinese: “斯匹次卑尔根”
- Chinese: “斯匹次卑尔根岛”
- Chinese: “斯匹次卑爾根島”
- Chinese: “斯皮茨卑尔根岛”
- Croatian: “Spitsbergen”
- Czech: “Spitsbergen”
- Czech: “Západní Špicberk”
- Danish: “Spitsbergen”
- Danish: “Spitzbergen”
- Dutch: “Spitsbergen”
- Egyptian Arabic: “سبيتسبرجن”
- Esperanto: “Spicbergo”
- Estonian: “Lääne-Teravmäed”
- Faroese: “Spitsbergen”
- Fiji Hindi: “Spitsbergen”
- Finnish: “Länsimaa”
- Finnish: “Spitsbergen”
- Finnish: “Vestspitsbergen”
- French: “Spitsberg”
- French: “Spitzberg occidentale”
- French: “Spitzberg”
- French: “Spitzbergen”
- French: “Vestspitsbergen”
- Galician: “Spitsbergen”
- Georgian: “დასავლეთი შპიცბერგენი”
- German: “Spitsbergen”
- German: “Spitzbergen”
- Greek: “Σπιτσβέργη”
- Hebrew: “שפיצברגן”
- Hungarian: “Nyugati-föld”
- Hungarian: “Spitsbergen”
- Icelandic: “Spitsbergen”
- Indonesian: “Spitsbergen”
- Italian: “Spitsbergen”
- Italian: “Spitzbergen”
- Japanese: “スピッツベルゲン”
- Japanese: “スピッツベルゲン島”
- Japanese: “西スピッツベルゲン”
- Korean: “베스트스피츠베르겐”
- Korean: “베스트스피트스베르겐 섬”
- Korean: “스피츠베르겐 섬”
- Korean: “스피츠베르겐”
- Korean: “스피츠베르겐섬”
- Korean: “스피트스베르겐 섬”
- Korean: “스핏스베르겐 섬”
- Latin: “Spitsbergen”
- Latin: “Spitzberga”
- Latvian: “Špicbergena”
- Lithuanian: “Špicbergenas”
- Lower Sorbian: “Spitzbergen”
- Macedonian: “Западен Шпицберген”
- Malayalam: “സ്പിറ്റ്സ്ബർഗൻ”
- Northern Frisian: “Spitsbergen”
- Northern Sami: “Čohkkavárit”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Midt-Spitsbergen”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Nordvest-Spitsbergen”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Sør-Spitsbergen”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Spitsbergen”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Vestspitsbergen”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Spitsbergen”
- Norwegian: “Spitsbergen”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Spitsbergen”
- Persian: “اسپیتزبرگن”
- Persian: “اسپیتس برگن”
- Persian: “اسپیتسبرگن”
- Persian: “اسپیتسبرگن”
- Persian: “اشپیتسبرگن”
- Polish: “Spitsbergen Zachodni”
- Polish: “Spitsbergen”
- Polish: “Szpicbergen”
- Portuguese: “Spitsbergen”
- Portuguese: “Spitzberg”
- Portuguese: “Spitzbergen”
- Pushto: “سپيتسبرګين”
- Pushto: “سپيتسبرګین”
- Romanian: “Insula Spitsbergen”
- Russian: “Андре Земля”
- Russian: “Западный Шпицберген (архипелаг Шпицберген)”
- Russian: “Западный Шпицберген”
- Scots: “Spitsbergen”
- Scottish Gaelic: “Spitzbergen”
- Serbian: “Špicbergen”
- Sicilian: “Spitsbergen”
- Slovak: “Špicbergy”
- Slovenian: “Grumant”
- Slovenian: “Spitsberg”
- Slovenian: “Spitsbergen”
- Slovenian: “Spitsbergi”
- Slovenian: “Vestspitsbergen”
- Slovenian: “Zahodni Spitsbergen”
- Spanish: “Isla Spitzberg”
- Spanish: “Spitsbergen”
- Spanish: “Spitzberg Occidental”
- Spanish: “Spitzberg”
- Swahili: “Spitsbergen”
- Swahili: “Spitzbergen”
- Swedish: “Spetsbergen”
- Swedish: “Spitsbergen”
- Swedish: “Vestspitsbergen”
- Telugu: “స్పిట్స్బెర్గెన్”
- Thai: “เกาะสปิตส์บาร์เกิน”
- Thai: “เกาะสปิตส์เบอร์เกน”
- Thai: “สปิตส์บาร์เกิน”
- Thai: “สปิตส์เบอร์เกน”
- Turkish: “Spitsbergen Adası”
- Turkish: “Spitsbergen”
- Turkish: “Spitzbergen”
- Ukrainian: “Західний Шпіцберген”
- Urdu: “اسپیتسبرگن”
- Uzbek: “Gʻarbiy Shpitsbergen”
- Vietnamese: “Đảo Spitsbergen”
- Vietnamese: “Spitsbergen”
- Waray (Philippines): “Spitsbergen”
- Welsh: “Spitsbergen”
- Welsh: “Spitzbergen”
- Wu Chinese: “斯匹次卑爾根島”
- Yue Chinese: “斯匹次卑爾根島”
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