Fehmarn Belt
Fehmarn Belt is a strait connecting the Bay of Kiel and the Bay of Mecklenburg in the western part of the Baltic Sea between the German island of Fehmarn and the Danish island of Lolland.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: NASA, Public domain.
- Type: Strait
- Description: strait between Germany & Denmark
- Also known as: “Fehmarn Strait”, “Fehmern Belt”, and “Femer Baeælt”
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Puttgarden and Marienleuchte.
Puttgarden
Village
Photo: Wusel007, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Puttgarden is a ferry harbour and a village on the German island of Fehmarn. It lies on an important route between Germany and Denmark known as the Vogelfluglinie which crosses the 18 kilometres strait, the Fehmarnbelt, to Rødby on the island of Lolland.
Fehmarn Belt
- Category: body of water
- Location: Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania, Germany, Central Europe, Europe
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
54.58175° or 54° 34′ 54″ northLongitude
11.24416° or 11° 14′ 39″ eastNamed after
FehmarnOpen location code
9F6HH6JV+MMOpenStreetMap ID
way 649205481OpenStreetMap feature
natural=strait
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Ukrainian—“Fehmarn Belt” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “مضيق فيميرن”
- Azerbaijani: “Femarn Belt”
- Catalan: “estret de Femern”
- Catalan: “Estret de Femern”
- Catalan: “Fehmarnbelt”
- Catalan: “Femern Bælt”
- Cebuano: “Fehmarn Belt”
- Chinese: “費馬恩海峽”
- Chinese: “费马恩海峡”
- Czech: “Fehmarnská úžina”
- Danish: “Femer Bælt”
- Danish: “Femern Bælt”
- Dutch: “Fehmarn Belt”
- Dutch: “Fehmarnbelt”
- Esperanto: “Fehmarn-Markolo”
- Esperanto: “Fehmarnbelt”
- Esperanto: “Fehmarnmarkolo”
- Esperanto: “Femarn-Markolo”
- Estonian: “Fehmarni Belt”
- Estonian: “Fehmarni väin”
- Finnish: “Fehmarnbelt”
- Finnish: “Fehmarnbeltin salmi”
- Finnish: “Fehmarnin Belt”
- Finnish: “Fehmarnin salmi”
- Finnish: “Fehmarninsalmi”
- Finnish: “Femern Baelt”
- Finnish: “Femern Bælt”
- French: “Détroit de Fehmarn Belt”
- French: “Fehmarn Belt”
- French: “Fehmarnbelt”
- French: “Femern Bælt”
- Georgian: “ფემარნ-ბელტი”
- German: “Fehmarnbelt”
- Hebrew: “חגורת פמרן”
- Hungarian: “Fehmarnbelt”
- Indonesian: “Fehmarnbelt”
- Italian: “Fehmarn Belt”
- Japanese: “フェーマルン・ベルト海峡”
- Japanese: “フェーマルン海峡”
- Korean: “페마른벨트 해협”
- Kurdish: “Fehmarnbelt”
- Kurdish: “فەهمارنبەلت”
- Latvian: “Fēmarnbelts”
- Lithuanian: “Fėmarnbelto sąsiauris”
- Low German: “Fehmarnbelt”
- Macedonian: “Фемарнски Белт”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Fehmarnbelt”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Fehmarn Bælt”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Femern Bælt”
- Norwegian: “Fehmarnbelt”
- Persian: “فمرنبلت”
- Polish: “Bełt Fehmarn”
- Portuguese: “Estreito de Fehmarn”
- Russian: “Фемарн-Бельт”
- Slovenian: “Fehmarnski Belt”
- Swedish: “Fehmarn Bält”
- Swedish: “Fehmarn Belt”
- Swedish: “Fehmarnbält”
- Swedish: “Femer Bält”
- Turkish: “Fehmarn Kemeri”
- Ukrainian: “Фемарн-бельт”
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Localities in the Area
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Notable Places Nearby
Highlights include Burg and Sperrgebiet Marienleuchte.
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