St George’s Channel
St George's Channel is a sea channel connecting the Irish Sea to the north and the Celtic Sea to the southwest. It separates Wexford on the southeastern corner of Ireland from St Davids on the southwestern tip of Wales.- Type: Strait
- Description: sea channel between Ireland and Wales, connecting the Irish Sea to the north and the Celtic Sea to the southwest
- Also known as: “Bambang ni San Jorge”, “Canal ni San Jorge”, “Canal Saint-George”, “Canle de San Xurxo”, “Kanał Św. Jerzego”, “Mooir Vretin”, “Muir na Breataine”, “Preliv sv. Jurija”, “Průliv svatého Jiří”, “S:t Georgskanalen”, “Saint George kanala”, “Saint George’s Channel”, “San Jurgi kanala”, “Sankt-Georgs-Kanal”, “Sianel San Sior”, “St. George Kanal”, “St. George-sundet”, “St. George’s Canal”, “Šv. Jurgio kanalas”, “Пролив святого Георгия”, “Протока Святого Георгія”, “Светигеоргиев Канал”, “Святого Георга”, “Святого Ґеорґа протока”, “セント･ジョージ海峡”, and “セントジョージズ海峡”
St George’s Channel
- Category: body of water
- Location: United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
51.96662° or 51° 57′ 60″ north
Longitude
-5.78156° or 5° 46′ 54″ west
Open location code
9C3PX689+J9
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
natural=strait
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Wikidata ID
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In Other Languages
From Afrikaans to Western Frisian—“St George’s Channel” goes by many names.
- Afrikaans: “Sint-Georgekanaal”
- Arabic: “قناة سانت جورج”
- Armenian: “Սուրբ Գևորգի նեղուց”
- Azerbaijani: “Müqqəddəs Georgi boğazı”
- Basque: “San Jurgi”
- Belarusian: “Канал сьвятога Георга”
- Belarusian: “Праліў Святога Георга”
- Breton: “Kanol Sant Jord”
- Bulgarian: “Проток Свети Георги”
- Catalan: “canal de Sant Jordi”
- Catalan: “Canal de Sant Jordi”
- Cebuano: “Saint Georges Channel”
- Cebuano: “St George’s Channel”
- Chinese: “圣乔治海峡”
- Chinese: “圣佐治海峡”
- Chinese: “聖佐治海峽”
- Croatian: “Prolaz Svetog Jurja”
- Czech: “Svatojiřský průliv”
- Danish: “Skt. Georges Kanal”
- Dutch: “Sint-Georgekanaal”
- Esperanto: “Kanalo de Sankta Georgo”
- Estonian: “Saint George’i väin”
- Finnish: “Pyhän Yrjön kanaali”
- French: “canal Saint-Georges”
- French: “Canal Saint-Georges”
- Galician: “Canal de San Xurxo”
- German: “St.-Georgs-Kanal”
- Greek: “Κανάλι Αγίου Γεωργίου”
- Greek: “Πορθμός του Αγίου Γεωργίου”
- Hebrew: “תעלת סנט ג’ורג‘”
- Hebrew: “תעלת סנט ג’ורג’”
- Hungarian: “Szent György-csatorna”
- Irish: “Muir Bhreatan”
- Italian: “Canale di San Giorgio”
- Japanese: “セントジョージ海峡”
- Kazakh: “Әулие Георг бұғазы”
- Korean: “세인트조지 해협”
- Latvian: “Sentdžordža šaurums”
- Lithuanian: “Šv. Jurgio sąsiauris”
- Livvi: “Kymrinmeri”
- Lombard: “Canal de San Giorgg”
- Macedonian: “Светигеоргиев Проток”
- Manx: “Mooir Vretyn”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “St. George’s Channel”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “St George’s Channel”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “St. George’s Channel”
- Norwegian: “St George’s Channel”
- Persian: “کانال سنت جورج”
- Polish: “Kanał Świętego Jerzego”
- Portuguese: “Canal de São Jorge”
- Romanian: “Canalul Sfântul Gheorghe”
- Russian: “Пролив Святого Георга”
- Serbian: “Prolaz Svetog Đorđa”
- Serbian: “Пролаз Светог Ђорђа”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Prolaz svetog Georgea”
- Slovak: “Prieliv svätého Juraja”
- Slovenian: “Kanal sv. Jurija”
- Spanish: “Canal de San Jorge”
- Swedish: “Sankt Georgskanalen”
- Tagalog: “Kanal ni San Jorge”
- Thai: “ช่องแคบเซนต์จอร์จ”
- Turkish: “St George Kanalı”
- Ukrainian: “Протока Святого Георга”
- Vlaams: “Sint-Georgekanoal”
- Welsh: “Sianel San Siôr”
- Western Frisian: “Sint-Georgekanaal”
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