Bering Strait
The Bering Strait is a strait between the Pacific and Arctic oceans, separating the Chukchi Peninsula of the Russian Far East from the Seward Peninsula of Alaska.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Strait
- Description: strait between Asia and North America
- Also known as: “Behring”, “Behring Strait”, “Beringov Proliv”, “Ice Curtain”, “Kamchatka”, and “Proliv Beringa”
Bering Strait
- Category: body of water
- Location: Russia, Eastern Europe, Europe
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Afrikaans to Yue Chinese—“Bering Strait” goes by many names.
- Afrikaans: “Beringstraat”
- Albanian: “Ngushtica e Beringut”
- Arabic: “بيرنغ”
- Arabic: “مضيق بيرنغ”
- Aragonese: “Estreito de Bering”
- Armenian: “Բերինգի նեղուց”
- Asturian: “Estrechu de Bering”
- Azerbaijani: “Berinq boğazı”
- Balinese: “Selat Béring”
- Bashkir: “Беринг боғаҙы”
- Basque: “Bering itsasartea”
- Basque: “Bering”
- Basque: “Beringeko itsasartea”
- Belarusian: “Берынгаў праліў”
- Belarusian: “Бэрынгава пратока”
- Belarusian: “Бэрынгаў праліў”
- Bengali: “বেরিং প্রণালি”
- Bengali: “বেরিং প্রণালী”
- Bhojpuri: “बेरिंग जलजोड़”
- Bosnian: “Beringov prolaz”
- Breton: “Strizh-mor Bering”
- Bulgarian: “Берингов проток”
- Catalan: “estret de Bering”
- Catalan: “Estret de Bering”
- Cebuano: “Bering Strait (agianan)”
- Cebuano: “Bering Strait”
- Central Kurdish: “تەنگاوی برینگ”
- Chinese: “Bering Hái-kiap”
- Chinese: “冰幕”
- Chinese: “白令海峡”
- Chinese: “白令海峽”
- Chinese: “白林海峡”
- Chinese: “白林海峽”
- Chuvash: “Беринг тинĕс пырĕ”
- Chuvash: “Беринг хушăкĕ”
- Croatian: “Beringov prolaz”
- Czech: “Beringův průliv”
- Danish: “Beringstrædet”
- Dutch: “Beringstraat”
- Egyptian Arabic: “بيرينج”
- Esperanto: “Beringa Markolo”
- Estonian: “Beringi väin”
- Finnish: “Beringinsalmi”
- French: “détroit de Béring”
- French: “Détroit de Béring”
- Galician: “Estreito de Bering”
- Georgian: “ბერინგის სრუტე”
- German: “Bering Strait”
- German: “Beringstrasse”
- German: “Beringstraße”
- Greek: “Βερίγγειος πορθμός”
- Hebrew: “מצר ברינג”
- Hindi: “बेरिंग जलसन्धि”
- Hungarian: “Bering-szoros”
- Icelandic: “Beringssund”
- Iloko: “Lingsat Bering”
- Indonesian: “Selat Bering”
- Irish: “Caolas Bheiring”
- Italian: “Stretto di Bering”
- Japanese: “ベーリング海峡”
- Kazakh: “Беринг бұғазы”
- Kirghiz: “Беринг кысыгы”
- Korean: “베링 해협”
- Kotava: “Bering Vedil”
- Kurdish: “Tengava Berîngê”
- Latgalian: “Beringa šauris”
- Latin: “Fretum Beringianum”
- Latvian: “Beringa šaurums”
- Lingua Franca Nova: “Streta Bering”
- Literary Chinese: “白令海峽”
- Lithuanian: “Beringo sąsiauris”
- Low German: “Beringstroat”
- Luxembourgish: “Beringstrooss”
- Macedonian: “Берингов Проток”
- Malagasy: “Andilan-dranomasin’ i Bering”
- Malagasy: “Andilan-dranomasin’i Bering”
- Malay: “Selat Bering”
- Malayalam: “ബറിംഗ് കടലിടുക്ക്”
- Marathi: “बेरिंग सामुद्रधुनी”
- Marathi: “बेरिंगची सामुद्रधुनी”
- Mazanderani: “برینگ دریا”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Bering Hái-kiap”
- Mingrelian: “ბერინგიშ საროტი”
- Mongolian: “Берингийн хоолой”
- Moroccan Arabic: “لمضيق د بيرينڭ”
- Moroccan Arabic: “لمضيق د بيرينݣ”
- Nepali: “बेरिंग जलसन्धि”
- Nepali: “बेरिङ जलसन्धि”
- Northern Frisian: “Beringstruat”
- Northern Sami: “Beringčoalbmi”
- Northern Sami: “Beringnuorri”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Beringstredet”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Beringsundet”
- Norwegian: “Beringstredet”
- Novial: “Strait de Bering”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Estrech de Bering”
- Ossetian: “Беринджы донкъубал”
- Panjabi: “ਬੇਰਿੰਗ ਪਣਜੋੜ”
- Persian: “تنگه برینگ”
- Polish: “Cieśnina Beringa”
- Portuguese: “Estreito de Bering”
- Romanian: “Strâmtoarea Bering”
- Russian: “Берингов пролив”
- Sakizaya: “salengacay a bayu”
- Scots: “Bering Strait”
- Serbian: “Берингов мореуз”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Beringov prolaz”
- Sicilian: “Strittu di Bering”
- Slovak: “Beringov prieliv”
- Slovenian: “Beringov preliv”
- Spanish: “Estrecho de Bering”
- Swahili: “Mlango wa Bering”
- Swahili: “Mlangobahari wa Bering”
- Swedish: “Berings sund”
- Swiss German: “Beringstrooss”
- Tajik: “Беринг (гулӯгоҳ)”
- Tajik: “Беринг”
- Tamil: “பெரிங் நீரிணை”
- Tatar: “Беринг бугазы”
- Telugu: “బేరింగ్ జలసంధి”
- Thai: “ช่องแคบเบริง”
- Tosk Albanian: “Beringstraße”
- Turkish: “Bering Boğazı”
- Ukrainian: “Берингова протока”
- Upper Sorbian: “Beringowy přeliw”
- Urdu: “آبنائے بیرنگ”
- Uzbek: “Bering bo‘g‘ozi”
- Uzbek: “Bering boʻgʻozi”
- Vietnamese: “eo Bering”
- Vietnamese: “eo biển Bering”
- Vietnamese: “Eo biển Bering”
- Waray (Philippines): “Estrecho han Bering”
- Waray (Philippines): “Sulang han Bering”
- Welsh: “Culfor Bering”
- Western Frisian: “Beringstrjitte”
- Western Panjabi: “آبنائے بیرنگ”
- Western Panjabi: “پانی گلی بیرنگ”
- Wu Chinese: “白令海峡”
- Yue Chinese: “白令海峽”
- “बेरिंग जलजोड़”
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