Pamlico Sound
Pamlico Sound is a large estuarine lagoon in North Carolina. The largest lagoon along the North American East Coast, it extends 80 mi long and 15 to 20 miles wide.
- Bay
- Description: largest lagoon along the North American East Coast
- Also known as“Detroit de Pamlico”“Pamplico”“Pamticoe Sound”
- Category: body of water
- Location
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Latitude
35.31267° or 35° 18′ 46″ north
Longitude
-75.93712° or 75° 56′ 14″ west
Open location code
87768377+35
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In Other Languages
From Armenian to Swedish—“Pamlico Sound” goes by many names.
- Armenian: “Պամլիկո (ծովածոց)”
- Armenian: “Պամլիկո”
- Catalan: “badia de Pamlico”
- Cebuano: “Pamlico Sound”
- Chinese: “帕姆利科峽灣”
- Chinese: “帕姆利科湾”
- Chinese: “帕姆利科灣”
- Dutch: “Pamlico Sound”
- French: “Baie de Pamlico”
- German: “Pamlico Sound”
- Hebrew: “לגונת פמליקו”
- Hebrew: “מצר פאמליקו”
- Hebrew: “מצר פמליקו”
- Hebrew: “פאמליקו סאונד”
- Hebrew: “פמליקו סאונד”
- Italian: “Pamlico Sound”
- Japanese: “パムリコ湾”
- Lithuanian: “Pamliko įlanka”
- Polish: “Pamlico Sound”
- Portuguese: “Baía de Pamlico”
- Portuguese: “Pamlico Sound”
- Russian: “Памлико (залив)”
- Russian: “Памлико-Саунд”
- Russian: “Памлико”
- Slovenian: “Pamlico Sound”
- Spanish: “Pamlico Sound”
- Swedish: “Pamlico Sound”
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