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 to the north and in state to the south.
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  • Type: Bay
  • Description: estuary on the east coast of the United States
  • Also known as: “Detroit de L’Isle Longue”, “Estreito de Long Island”, “Fjordo de Long Island”, “Le Sund”, “Long Ailando sąsiauris”, “Long Island-Sund”, “Long Island-sundet”, “Long-Island-fjordo”, “Long-Island-Sund”, “Longinsula fjordo”, “Maminketesuck”, “Лонг-Айленд-Саунд”, “Лонг-Айлендский пролив”, “Лонг-Айлендська затока”, “Пролив Лонг-Айленд”, “Протока Лонг-Айленд”, “لونغ آيلاند ساوند”, “롱아일랜드 사운드”, “롱아일랜드 수로”, “ロングアイランド・サウンド”, “長島海峽”, and “長道海灣”

Long Island Sound

Latitude
41.09694° or 41° 5′ 49″ north
Longitude
-72.87966° or 72° 52′ 47″ west
Open location code
87H934WC+Q4
Geo­Names ID
5125132
Wiki­data ID
Q867460
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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Welsh—“Long Island Sound” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “ناصفة لنغ أيلند”
  • Arabic: “ناصفة لونغ آيلاند”
  • 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: “長島海灣”
  • Chinese: “長島灣”
  • Chinese: “长岛海湾”
  • Czech: “Long Island Sound”
  • Danish: “Long Island Sound”
  • Dutch: “Long Island Sound”
  • Esperanto: “Fjordo Long Island”
  • Estonian: “Long Islandi väin”
  • French: “Long Island Sound”
  • Galician: “Long Island Sound”
  • Georgian: “ლონგ-აილენდი”
  • German: “Long Island Sound”
  • Hebrew: “מפרץ לונג איילנד”
  • Hebrew: “מצר לונג איילנד”
  • Indonesian: “Long Island Sound”
  • Irish: “Sunda an Oileáin Fhada”
  • Italian: “Long Island Sound”
  • Japanese: “ロングアイランド湾”
  • Korean: “롱아일랜드 해협”
  • Korean: “롱아일랜드만”
  • Lithuanian: “Long Ailando įlanka”
  • 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”
  • Russian: “Лонг-Айленд”
  • Slovenian: “Long Island Sound”
  • Spanish: “estrecho de Long Island”
  • Spanish: “Estrecho de Long Island”
  • Swedish: “Long Island Sound”
  • Tamil: “நீள் தீவு இடைக்கடல்”
  • Turkish: “Long Island Boğazı”
  • Ukrainian: “Лонг-Айленд”
  • Urdu: “لانگ آئی لینڈ سائونڈز”
  • Urdu: “لانگ آئی لینڈ کھاڑی”
  • Vietnamese: “Vịnh Long Island”
  • Welsh: “Swnt Long Island”

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