Kattegat

The Kattegat is a sea of roughly 24,000 km2 bounded by the Skagerrak in the north, in the west, the Danish Straits and in the south and the Swedish provinces of , , Halland and in the east.
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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

Latitude
56.93191° or 56° 55′ 55″ north
Longitude
11.44252° or 11° 26′ 33″ east
Open location code
9F8HWCJV+Q2
Geo­Names ID
2960850
Wiki­data ID
Q131716
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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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