Flensburg Firth
Flensburg Firth or Flensborg Fjord is the westernmost inlet of the Baltic Sea. It forms part of the border between Germany to the south and Denmark to the north, on the eastern side of Schleswig Holstein and Jutland, respectively.Photo: Carsten Steger, CC BY-SA 4.0.
- Type: Fjord
- Description: firth on the Danish-German border
- Also known as: “Flensburger Fohrde”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Skodsbøl Lighthouse and Lågemade Lighthouse.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Brunsnæs and Egernsund.
Egernsund
Village
Photo: Erik Christensen, CC BY 3.0.
Egernsund is a small town, with a population of 1,431, in Sønderborg Municipality, Region of Southern Denmark in Denmark. Egernsund is situated on the northwestern end of the small peninsula of Broager Land on the northern shore of Flensborg Fjord and east of the short and narrow strait, called Egern Strait, connecting the firth with the small inlet of Nybøl Nor to the north. Egernsund is situated 3 km north of Flensburg Firth.
Broager
Village
Photo: Hubertus, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Broager is a town with a population of 3,227 in Sønderborg Municipality in Region of Southern Denmark, Denmark. It lies on the Broager Peninsula and is therefore surrounded by water on three sides, the waters of Flensborg Fjord leading into the Baltic Sea. Broager is situated 3 km east of Flensburg Firth.
Flensburg Firth
- Categories: fjord and body of water
- Location: Germany, Central Europe, Europe
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Turkish—“Flensburg Firth” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “خلل فلينسبورغ”
- Catalan: “fiord de Flensburg”
- Chinese: “弗伦斯堡峡湾”
- Chinese: “弗倫斯堡峽灣”
- Danish: “Flensborg Fjord”
- Dutch: “Flensburger Fjord”
- Esperanto: “Flensburga fjordo”
- Finnish: “Flensburginvuono”
- French: “fjord de Flensbourg”
- French: “Fjord de Flensbourg”
- German: “Flensborg Fjord”
- German: “Flensburger Förde”
- Hebrew: “פיורד פלנסבורג”
- Italian: “Fiordo di Flensburg”
- Japanese: “フレンスブルク・フィヨルド”
- Japanese: “フレンスボー・フィヨルド”
- Macedonian: “Фленсбуршки Фјорд”
- Northern Frisian: “Flensborger Förde”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Flensborg fjord”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Flensborgfjorden”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Flensburg Fjord”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Flensburgfjorden”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Flensborg Fjord”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Flensborgfjorden”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Flensburger Förde”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Flensburgfjorden”
- Norwegian: “Flensburgfjorden”
- Persian: “آبدره فلنسبورگ”
- Polish: “Zatoka Flensburska”
- Spanish: “Fiordo de Flensburg”
- Spanish: “Fiordo de Flensburgo”
- Swedish: “Flensburgfjorden”
- Turkish: “Flensburg Fiyordu”
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