Hudson Bay
Hudson Bay, sometimes called Hudson's Bay, is a large body of saltwater in northeastern Canada with a surface area of 1,230,000 km, that includes parts of southeastern Nunavut, Alberta, Saskatchewan, Ontario, Quebec, all of Manitoba, and parts of the U.S. states of North Dakota, South Dakota, Minnesota, and Montana.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Bay
- Description: large body of saltwater in northeastern Canada that drains much of north-central North America
- Also known as: “HB”, “Hudson’s Bay”, and “Hudsons Bay”
Hudson Bay
- Categories: inland sea, epicontinental sea, and body of water
- Location: Nunavut, Northern Canada, Canada, North America
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Afrikaans to Yue Chinese—“Hudson Bay” goes by many names.
- Afrikaans: “Hudsonbaai”
- Amharic: “ሀድሰን ባህረስላጤ”
- Arabic: “خليج هدسن”
- Arabic: “خليج هدسون”
- Armenian: “Հուդզոնի ծոց”
- Asturian: “Badea de Hudson”
- Atikamekw: “Kovik”
- Azerbaijani: “Hudzon körfəzi”
- Bashkir: “Гудзон ҡултығы”
- Basque: “Hudson badia”
- Belarusian: “Гадсанава затока”
- Belarusian: “Гудзонава затока”
- Belarusian: “Гудзонаў заліў”
- Bengali: “হাডসন উপসাগর”
- Bosnian: “Hudsonov zaliv”
- Breton: “Bae Hudson”
- Bulgarian: “Хъдсън”
- Burmese: “ဟဒ်ဆန် ပင်လယ်အော်”
- Catalan: “badia de Hudson”
- Catalan: “Badia de Hudson”
- Cebuano: “Baie d’Hudson (dagat sa Canada)”
- Cebuano: “Baie d’Hudson”
- Central Kurdish: “ئاودڕی ھەدسن”
- Chechen: “Худсонан айма”
- Chinese: “Hudson Oan”
- Chinese: “哈得孙湾”
- Chinese: “哈德森湾”
- Chinese: “哈德逊湾”
- Chinese: “哈德遜灣”
- Chuvash: “Гудзон кӳлмекĕ”
- Croatian: “Hudsonov zaljev”
- Czech: “Hudsonský záliv”
- Czech: “Hudsonův záliv”
- Danish: “Hudsonbugten”
- Dutch: “Hudsonbaai”
- Egyptian Arabic: “خليج هادسون”
- Esperanto: “Hudsona Golfo”
- Estonian: “Hudsoni laht”
- Fiji Hindi: “Hudson Bay”
- Finnish: “Hudsoninlahti”
- French: “baie d’Hudson”
- French: “Baie d’Hudson”
- Galician: “Baía de Hudson”
- Georgian: “ჰუდსონის ყურე”
- German: “Hudson Bay”
- Greek: “κόλπος του Χάντσον”
- Greek: “κόλπος Χάντσον”
- Greek: “Κόλπος Χάντσον”
- Guarani: “Húson Yjere”
- Guarani: “Yjere Hudson”
- Hebrew: “מפרץ הדסון”
- Hindi: “हडसन खाड़ी”
- Hungarian: “Hudson-öböl”
- Icelandic: “Hudsonflói”
- Indonesian: “Teluk Hudson”
- Inuktitut: “ᑲᖏᖅᓱᐊᓗᒃ ᐃᓗᐊ”
- Irish: “Bá Hudson”
- Italian: “baia di Hudson”
- Italian: “Baia di Hudson”
- Japanese: “ハドソン湾”
- Kara-Kalpak: “Gudzon qoltiǵi”
- Kara-Kalpak: “Gudzon qoltıǵı”
- Karachay-Balkar: “Гудзонну богъазы”
- Kirghiz: “Гудзон булуңу”
- Kirghiz: “Гудзон, булуң”
- Korean: “허드슨 만”
- Korean: “허드슨만”
- Kurdish: “Kendava Hudsonê”
- Latin: “Sinus Hudson”
- Latin: “Sinus Hudsonius”
- Latvian: “Hudzona līcis”
- Limburgan: “Hudsonbóch”
- Lingua Franca Nova: “Baia Hudson”
- Lithuanian: “Hadsono įlanka”
- Low German: “Hudson Bay”
- Luxembourgish: “Hudson Bay”
- Macedonian: “Хадсонов Залив”
- Malay: “Teluk Hudson”
- Malayalam: “ഹഡ്സൺ ഉൾക്കടൽ”
- Mazanderani: “هودسون”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Hudson Oan”
- Mingrelian: “ჰუდსონიშ ჸუჯი”
- Newari: “हडसन खाडी”
- Northern Frisian: “Hudson Bay”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Hudsonbukta”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Hudsonbukta”
- Norwegian: “Hudsonbukta”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Baia d’Hudson”
- Ossetian: “Гудзоны бакæлæн”
- Panjabi: “ਹਡਸਨ ਬੇਅ”
- Persian: “خلیج هادسون”
- Polish: “Zatoka Hudsona”
- Portuguese: “Baía de Hudson”
- Romanian: “Golful Hudson”
- Russian: “Гудзонов залив”
- Scots: “Hudson Bay”
- Serbian: “Залив Хадсон”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Hudsonov zaljev”
- Slovak: “Hudsonov záliv”
- Slovenian: “Hudson Bay”
- Slovenian: “Hudsonov zaliv”
- South Azerbaijani: “هودسون کؤرفزی”
- Spanish: “Bahia de Hudson”
- Spanish: “Bahía de Hudson”
- Swahili: “Ghuba ya Hudson”
- Swedish: “Hudson Bay”
- Tajik: “Халиҷи Ҳудсун”
- Tamil: “அட்சன் விரிகுடா”
- Tatar: “Һудзон култыгы”
- Thai: “อ่าวฮัดสัน”
- Thai: “ฮัดสันเบย์”
- Turkish: “Hudson Körfezi”
- Ukrainian: “Гудзонова затока”
- Urdu: “خلیج ہڈسن”
- Uzbek: “Gudzon qo‘ltig‘i”
- Uzbek: “Gudzon Qo‘ltig‘i”
- Uzbek: “Gudzon qoʻltigʻi”
- Uzbek: “Gudzon Qoʻltigʻi”
- Vietnamese: “Vịnh Hudson”
- Waray (Philippines): “Bahia han Hudson”
- Welsh: “Bae Hudson”
- Western Frisian: “Hudsonbaai”
- Western Panjabi: “خلیج ہڈسن”
- Wu Chinese: “哈德森湾”
- Wu Chinese: “哈德遜灣”
- Yoruba: “Hudson Bay”
- Yue Chinese: “哈德遜灣”
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