Kiel Canal
The Kiel Canal, the Nord-Ostsee-Kanal in German, formerly the Kaiser-Wilhelm-Kanal, connects the North Sea at Brunsbüttel to the Baltic Sea at Kiel through Schleswig-Holstein in northern Germany.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Canal
- Description: canal in the German state of Schleswig-Holstein
- Also known as: “Kaiser-Wilhelm-Kanal”, “Kieler Kanal”, and “Nord-Ostsee-Kanal”
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Breiholz and Hamdorf.
Breiholz
Village
Photo: Huhu Uet, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Breiholz is a municipality in the district of Rendsburg-Eckernförde, in Schleswig-Holstein, Germany.
Hamdorf
Village
Hamdorf is a municipality in the district of Rendsburg-Eckernförde, in Schleswig-Holstein, Germany. Hamdorf is situated in Eiderknie in the southern part of the collective municipality of Hohner Harde. The municipal area covers 3,074 hectares. Hamdorf is situated 3½ km northwest of Kiel Canal.
Hörsten
Hamlet
Hörsten is a municipality in the district of Rendsburg-Eckernförde, in Schleswig-Holstein, Germany. Hörsten is situated 4 km northeast of Kiel Canal.
Kiel Canal
- Categories: ship canal and body of water
- Location: Brunsbüttel, Dithmarschen, North Sea Coast, Schleswig-Holstein, Germany, Central Europe, Europe
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Satellite Map
Discover Kiel Canal from above in high-definition satellite imagery.
In Other Languages
From Afrikaans to Yue Chinese—“Kiel Canal” goes by many names.
- Afrikaans: “Kiel-kanaal”
- Arabic: “قناة كيل”
- Arabic: “قناة كييل”
- Arabic: “قنال كيل”
- Arabic: “قناه كيل”
- Armenian: “Քիլի ջրանցք”
- Asturian: “Canal de Kiel”
- Azerbaijani: “Kil kanalı”
- Basque: “Kieleko ubidea”
- Basque: “Kielgo ubidea”
- Belarusian: “Кільскі канал”
- Bengali: “কিল খাল”
- Bhojpuri: “कील नहर”
- Bhojpuri: “केसर-विल्हेम-कनाल”
- Bulgarian: “Килски канал”
- Burmese: “ကီးတူးမြောင်း”
- Catalan: “canal de Kiel”
- Catalan: “Canal de Kiel”
- Catalan: “Kaiser-Wilhelm-Kanal”
- Catalan: “NOK”
- Catalan: “Nord-Ostsee-Kanal”
- Cebuano: “Kiel Canal”
- Chinese: “基尔运河”
- Chinese: “基爾運河”
- Croatian: “Kielski kanal”
- Croatian: “Kilski kanal”
- Czech: “Kielský průplav”
- Danish: “Kejser Wilhelmkanalen”
- Danish: “Kielerkanalen”
- Danish: “Nord-Ostsee-Kanal”
- Dutch: “Kiel-kanaal”
- Dutch: “Kielerkanaal”
- Dutch: “Noord-Oostzeekanaal”
- Dutch: “Nord-Ostsee Kanal”
- Dutch: “Nord-Ostsee-Kanal”
- Egyptian Arabic: “قناة كيل”
- Esperanto: “‘Nordmara-Baltmara Kanalo’”
- Esperanto: “Kiela Kanalo”
- Esperanto: “Kila Kanalo”
- Estonian: “Kieli kanal”
- Finnish: “Kaiser-Wilhelm-Kanal”
- Finnish: “Kielin kanava”
- Finnish: “Nord-Ostsee-Kanal”
- French: “canal de Kiel”
- French: “Canal de Kiel”
- Georgian: “კილის არხი”
- German: “Kaiser-Wilhelm-Kanal”
- German: “Kiel Canal”
- German: “NOK”
- German: “Nord-Ostsee-Kanal”
- German: “Kaiser Wilhelm Kanal” (historical)
- Greek: “Κανάλι του Κιέλου”
- Hebrew: “תעלת קיל”
- Hindi: “कील नहर”
- Hungarian: “Kieli-csatorna”
- Icelandic: “Kílarskurðurinn”
- Indonesian: “Terusan Kiel”
- Italian: “Canale di Kiel”
- Japanese: “カイザー・ウィルヘルム運河”
- Japanese: “キール運河”
- Japanese: “北海・バルト海運河”
- Japanese: “北海バルト海運河”
- Korean: “킬 운하”
- Latin: “Canalis Germanicobalticus”
- Latin: “Fossa Germanicobaltica”
- Latin: “Fossa Germanobaltica”
- Latvian: “Ķīles kanāls”
- Lithuanian: “Kylio kanalas”
- Low German: “Noord-Oostsee-Kanal”
- Lower Sorbian: “Kanal Połnocne - Baltiske mórjo”
- Macedonian: “Килски Канал”
- Northern Frisian: “Nuurd-Uastsia-Kanaal”
- Northern Frisian: “Nuurd-Uastsia-Kanool”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Kiel-kanalen”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Kielerkanalen”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Kielkanalen”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Nord-Ostsee-Kanal”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Kielkanalen”
- Norwegian: “Kielkanalen”
- Persian: “کانال کیل”
- Piemontese: “Canal ëd Kiel”
- Polish: “Kanał Kiloński”
- Polish: “Nord-Ostsee-Kanal”
- Portuguese: “Canal de Kiel”
- Portuguese: “Canal de Quiel”
- Romanian: “Canalul Kiel”
- Russian: “Канал кайзера Вильгельма”
- Russian: “Кильский канал”
- Russian: “Шлезвиг-Гольштейнский канал”
- Scots: “Kiel Canal”
- Serbian: “Kilski kanal”
- Serbian: “Nord-Ostsee-Kanal”
- Serbian: “Килски канал”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Kielski kanal”
- Slovak: “Severomorsko-baltský prieplav”
- Slovenian: “Kielski prekop”
- Spanish: “Canal de Kiel”
- Spanish: “Nord Ostsee Kanal”
- Spanish: “Nord Ostsee-Kanal”
- Spanish: “Nord-Ostsee Kanal”
- Spanish: “Nord-Ostsee-Kanal”
- Swedish: “Kielkanalen”
- Swedish: “Nord-Ost-See Kanal”
- Swedish: “Nord-Ostsee-Kanal”
- Thai: “Kiel Canal”
- Thai: “คลองคิล”
- Thai: “คลองคีล”
- Turkish: “Kiel Kanalı”
- Ukrainian: “Кільський канал”
- Vietnamese: “Kênh đào Kiel”
- Vietnamese: “Kiel”
- Welsh: “Camlas Kiel”
- Wu Chinese: “基尔运河”
- Yue Chinese: “基爾運河”
- “कील नहर”
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