Long Island Sound
Long Island Sound is a marine sound and tidal estuary of the Atlantic Ocean. It lies predominantly between the U.S. state of Connecticut to the north and Long Island in New York state to the south.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Bay
- Description: estuary on the east coast of the United States
- Also known as: “Detroit de L’Isle Longue”, “Le Sund”, “Long Island-Sund”, and “Maminketesuck”
Long Island Sound
- Categories: estuary and body of water
- Location: Suffolk County, New York, Mid-Atlantic, United States, North America
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Welsh—“Long Island Sound” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “لونغ آيلاند ساوند”
- Armenian: “Լոնգ Այլենդ (նեղուց)”
- Armenian: “Լոնգ Այլենդ”
- Azerbaijani: “Lonq-Aylend boğazı”
- Basque: “Long Island Sound”
- Belarusian: “Лонг-Айленд”
- Belarusian: “Праліў Лонг-Айленд”
- Breton: “Long Island Sound”
- Bulgarian: “Лонгайлъндски проток”
- Catalan: “Long Island Sound”
- Cebuano: “Long Island Sound (luuk)”
- Cebuano: “Long Island Sound”
- Chinese: “長島海峽”
- Chinese: “長島海灣”
- Chinese: “長島灣”
- Chinese: “長道海灣”
- Chinese: “长岛海湾”
- Czech: “Long Island Sound”
- Danish: “Long Island Sound”
- Dutch: “Long Island Sound”
- Esperanto: “Fjordo de Long Island”
- Esperanto: “Fjordo Long Island”
- Esperanto: “Long Island Sound”
- Esperanto: “Long-Island-fjordo”
- Esperanto: “Longinsula fjordo”
- Estonian: “Long Islandi väin”
- French: “Long Island Sound”
- Galician: “Estreito de Long Island”
- Galician: “Long Island Sound”
- Georgian: “ლონგ-აილენდი”
- German: “Long Island Sound”
- German: “Long-Island-Sund”
- Hebrew: “מפרץ לונג איילנד”
- Hebrew: “מצר לונג איילנד”
- Indonesian: “Long Island Sound”
- Irish: “Sunda an Oileáin Fhada”
- Italian: “Long Island Sound”
- Japanese: “ロングアイランド・サウンド”
- Japanese: “ロングアイランド湾”
- Korean: “롱아일랜드 사운드”
- Korean: “롱아일랜드 수로”
- Korean: “롱아일랜드 해협”
- Lithuanian: “Long Ailando įlanka”
- Lithuanian: “Long Ailando sąsiauris”
- Luxembourgish: “Long Island Sound”
- Northern Frisian: “Long Island Sound”
- Persian: “دریاراه لانگ آیلند”
- Persian: “لانگ آیلند سوند”
- Polish: “Long Island Sound”
- Portuguese: “Estuário de Long Island”
- Portuguese: “Long Island Sound”
- Russian: “Лонг-Айленд-Саунд”
- Russian: “Лонг-Айленд”
- Russian: “Лонг-Айлендский пролив”
- Russian: “Пролив Лонг-Айленд”
- Slovenian: “Long Island Sound”
- Spanish: “estrecho de Long Island”
- Spanish: “Estrecho de Long Island”
- Spanish: “Long Island Sound”
- Swedish: “Long Island Sound”
- Swedish: “Long Island-sundet”
- Tamil: “நீள் தீவு இடைக்கடல்”
- Turkish: “Long Island Boğazı”
- Ukrainian: “Лонг-Айленд”
- Ukrainian: “Лонг-Айлендська затока”
- Ukrainian: “Протока Лонг-Айленд”
- Urdu: “لانگ آئی لینڈ سائونڈز”
- Urdu: “لانگ آئی لینڈ کھاڑی”
- Welsh: “Swnt Long Island”
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Notable Places Nearby
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