Kattegat
The Kattegat is a 30,000 km2 sea area bounded by the peninsula of Jutland in the west, the Danish straits islands of Denmark and the Baltic Sea to the south and the Swedish provinces of Bohuslän, Västergötland, Halland and Scania in Sweden in the east.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Sea
- Description: sea area between Denmark and Sweden
- Also known as: “Categat”, “Categate”, “Cattegat”, “Kategat”, “Kattegatt”, and “t’Schager Rack”
Kattegat
- Categories: strait, gulf, and body of water
- Location: Denmark, Nordic countries, Europe
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In Other Languages
From Afrikaans to Yue Chinese—“Kattegat” goes by many names.
- Afrikaans: “Kattegat”
- Arabic: “كاتيغات”
- Armenian: “Կատեգատ”
- Asturian: “Kattegat”
- Azerbaijani: “Kattegat”
- Bashkir: “Каттегат”
- Basque: “Kattegat”
- Belarusian: “Катэгат”
- Belarusian: “праліў Катэгат”
- Bengali: “কাট্টেগাট প্রণালি”
- Bengali: “কাট্টেগাট প্রণালী”
- Bosnian: “Kategat”
- Bosnian: “Kattegat”
- Breton: “Kattegat”
- Breton: “Kattegatt”
- Bulgarian: “Категат”
- Catalan: “Estret de Kattegat”
- Catalan: “Kattegat”
- Chechen: “Каттегат”
- Chinese: “卡特加特海峡”
- Chinese: “卡特加特海峽”
- Chinese: “卡特加特海湾”
- Croatian: “Kattegat”
- Czech: “Kattegat”
- Czech: “Kattegatt”
- Danish: “Kattegat”
- Dimli (individual language): “Kattegat”
- Dutch: “Kattegat”
- Esperanto: “Kategato”
- Esperanto: “Kattegat”
- Esperanto: “Kattegatt”
- Estonian: “Kattegat”
- Estonian: “Kattegati väin”
- Finnish: “Kattegat”
- Finnish: “Kattegatt”
- French: “Cattegat”
- French: “Cattégat”
- French: “Kattegat”
- French: “Kattegatt”
- Galician: “Kattegat”
- Georgian: “კატეგატი”
- Georgian: “კატეგატის სრუტე”
- German: “Kattegat”
- German: “Kattegatt”
- Greek: “Κάτεγατ”
- Hebrew: “קטגט”
- Hindi: “कैटेगाट खाड़ी”
- Hungarian: “Kattegat”
- Icelandic: “Jótlandshaf”
- Icelandic: “Kattegat”
- Indonesian: “Kattegat”
- Indonesian: “Teluk Kattegat”
- Irish: “Kattegat”
- Italian: “Cattegat”
- Italian: “Kattegat”
- Japanese: “カテガット”
- Japanese: “カテガット海峡”
- Kazakh: “Каттегат”
- Korean: “카테가트 해협”
- Korean: “카테가트”
- Kurdish: “Kattegat”
- Kurdish: “کاتتەگات”
- Latin: “Kattegat”
- Latin: “Sinus Codanus”
- Latvian: “Kategats”
- Limburgan: “Kattegaat”
- Lithuanian: “Kategatas”
- Macedonian: “Категат”
- Newari: “कत्तेगात”
- Northern Frisian: “Kattegat”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Kattegat”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Kattegatt”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Kattegat”
- Norwegian: “Kattegat”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Kattegat”
- Ossetian: “Каттегат”
- Persian: “تنگه کاتگات”
- Persian: “کاتگات”
- Polish: “Kattegat”
- Portuguese: “Categate”
- Portuguese: “Kattegat”
- Portuguese: “Kattegatt”
- Pushto: “کاتګات”
- Romanian: “Kattegat”
- Russian: “Каттегат”
- Rusyn: “Каттегат”
- Santali: “ᱠᱟᱴᱴᱮᱜᱟᱴ”
- Saterfriesisch: “Kattegat”
- Scots: “Kattegat”
- Scottish Gaelic: “Kattegat”
- Serbian: “Kategat”
- Serbian: “Категат”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Kattegat”
- Slovak: “Kattegat”
- Slovenian: “Kattegat”
- Spanish: “Categat”
- Spanish: “estrecho de Categat”
- Spanish: “estrecho de Kattegat”
- Spanish: “Kattegat”
- Swahili: “Kattegat”
- Swedish: “Kattegat”
- Swedish: “Kattegatt”
- Tamil: “கட்டேகாட் நீர்சந்தி”
- Tamil: “கட்டேகாட்”
- Tatar: “Каттегат бугазы”
- Thai: “คัตเทกัต”
- Turkish: “Kategat”
- Turkish: “Kategatt”
- Turkish: “Kattegat”
- Turkish: “Kattegatt”
- Ukrainian: “Каттегат”
- Upper Sorbian: “Kattegat”
- Uzbek: “Kattegat”
- Vietnamese: “Biển Kattegat”
- Vietnamese: “Kattegat”
- Vlaams: “Kattegat”
- Waray (Philippines): “Kattegat”
- Welsh: “Kattegat”
- Western Frisian: “Kattegat”
- Wu Chinese: “卡特加特海峡”
- Yue Chinese: “卡特加特海峽”
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