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Chesapeake Bay

The Chesapeake Bay is one of the world's largest estuaries, with waters extending through the states of and out to the Atlantic Ocean.
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  • Type: Bay
  • Description: estuary in the U.S. states of Maryland, Delaware, District of Columbia, and Virginia
  • Also known as: “Bahia de Madre de”, “Bahia De Madre De Dios”, “Bahia De Santa Maria”, “Bahia De Santa Maria *”, “Bahia Del Jacan *”, “Bay of Chesapeack”, “Bay of Chesapeacke”, “Bay of Chesepian”, “Bay of Chespiock”, “Bay of Chisapeack”, “Bay of the Chessepian”, “Cheapeak Bay”, “Chesapeac Bay”, “Chesapeack Bay”, “Chesapeake Baye”, “Chesapsyocke Bay”, “Cheseapeack Bay”, “Cheseapeak Bay”, “Chesepioc Bay”, “Chesepiooc”, “Chesopeak Bay”, “Chesopeiack Bay”, “Chesupioc Bay”, “Chisapeask Bay”, “The Bay of Checepiacke”, “The Great Water”, and “Virginian Bay”

Chesapeake Bay

Latitude
38.5168° or 38° 31′ 0″ north
Longitude
-76.383° or 76° 22′ 59″ west
Open location code
87C5GJ88+PQ
Open­Street­Map ID
node 369003154
Open­Street­Map feature
natural=­bay
Geo­Names ID
4351177
Wiki­data ID
Q216868
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Satellite Map

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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Western Frisian—“Chesapeake Bay” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “Chesapeake Bay”
  • Arabic: “خليج تشسابيك”
  • Arabic: “خليج تشيزبيك”
  • Arabic: “خليج تشيسابيك”
  • Asturian: “Ensenada de Chesapeake”
  • Azerbaijani: “Çesapik körfəzi”
  • Bashkir: “Чесапик ҡултығы”
  • Basque: “Chesapeake badia”
  • Belarusian: “Чэсапікскі заліў”
  • Belarusian: “Чэсапіцкая затока”
  • Bengali: “চেসাপিক বে”
  • Breton: “Bae Chesapeake”
  • Bulgarian: “Чесапийк”
  • Bulgarian: “Чизапик”
  • Catalan: “badia de Chesapeake”
  • Catalan: “Badia de Chesapeake”
  • Catalan: “Chesapeake Bay”
  • Catalan: “Chesapeake”
  • Cebuano: “Chesapeake Bay”
  • Chinese: “乞沙比克灣”
  • Chinese: “切萨皮克湾”
  • Chinese: “契沙比克灣”
  • Chinese: “車薩比灣”
  • Czech: “Chesapeake Bay”
  • Czech: “Chesapeake”
  • Czech: “Chesapeakeská zátoka”
  • Czech: “Chesapeakská zátoka”
  • Czech: “zátoka Chesapeake”
  • Danish: “Chesapeake Bay”
  • Dutch: “Chesapeake baai”
  • Dutch: “Chesapeake Bay”
  • Dutch: “Chesapeakebaai”
  • Esperanto: “Ĉezapika Golfo”
  • Esperanto: “Golfo Chesapeake”
  • Estonian: “Chesapeake’i laht”
  • Finnish: “Chesapeake Bay”
  • Finnish: “Chesapeake Bayn kraateri”
  • Finnish: “Chesapeake Bayn kraatteri”
  • Finnish: “Chesapeaken lahden kraateri”
  • Finnish: “Chesapeaken lahti”
  • Finnish: “Chesapeakenlahti”
  • French: “Baie de Cheasapeake”
  • French: “Baie de Chesapeak”
  • French: “baie de Chesapeake”
  • French: “Baie de Chesapeake”
  • French: “Baie de la Cheasapeake”
  • French: “Baie de la Chesapeake”
  • French: “Chesapeake Bay”
  • Georgian: “ჩესაპიკის ყურე”
  • German: “Chesapeake Bay”
  • Greek: “Κόλπος του Τσέσαπικ”
  • Hebrew: “מפרץ צ’סאפיק”
  • Hebrew: “מפרץ צ’ספיק”
  • Hindi: “चेसापीक खाड़ी”
  • Hungarian: “Chesapeake-öböl”
  • Inari Sami: “Chesapeakeluohtâ”
  • Indonesian: “Teluk Chesapeake”
  • Italian: “baia di Chesapeake”
  • Italian: “Baia di Chesapeake”
  • Italian: “Chesapeake Bay”
  • Japanese: “チェサピーク湾”
  • Korean: “체사피크 만”
  • Korean: “체사피크 베이”
  • Korean: “체서피크 베이”
  • Korean: “체서피크만”
  • Latin: “Sinus Chesapeacus”
  • Latvian: “Česapīkas līcis”
  • Lingua Franca Nova: “Baia Chesapeake”
  • Lithuanian: “Česapiko įlanka”
  • Lithuanian: “Česapyko įlanka”
  • Macedonian: “Чесапик”
  • Mingrelian: “ჩესაპიკიშ ჸუჯი”
  • Northern Frisian: “Chesapeake Bay”
  • Northern Sami: “Chesapeakeluokta”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Chesapeake Bay”
  • Norwegian: “Chesapeake Bay”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Baia de Chesapeake”
  • Old English (ca. 450-1100): “Ceosapēac Byht”
  • Persian: “خلیج چساپیک”
  • Persian: “خلیج عقبه”
  • Piemontese: “Chesapeake (ansen)”
  • Piemontese: “Chesapeake”
  • Polish: “Chesapeake Bay”
  • Polish: “Chesapeake”
  • Polish: “Zatoka Chesapeake”
  • Portuguese: “Baía Chesapeake”
  • Portuguese: “Baía de Chesapeake”
  • Portuguese: “Chesapeake Bay”
  • Russian: “Чесапикский залив”
  • Serbian: “Залив Чесапик”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Chesapeake”
  • Skolt Sami: “Chesapeakeluhtt”
  • Slovak: “Chesapeacka zátoka”
  • Slovenian: “Chesapeake Bay”
  • Slovenian: “Chesapeaški zaliv”
  • Spanish: “bahia Chesapeake”
  • Spanish: “bahía Chesapeake”
  • Spanish: “bahia de Chesapeake”
  • Spanish: “bahía de Chesapeake”
  • Spanish: “Bahía de Chesapeake”
  • Spanish: “Chesapeake Bay”
  • Swahili: “Hori la Chesapeake”
  • Swahili: “Hori ya Chesapeake”
  • Swedish: “Chesapeake Bay”
  • Thai: “อ่าวเชซาพีก”
  • Turkish: “Chesapeake Körfezi”
  • Ukrainian: “Чесапікська затока”
  • Urdu: “خلیج چیساپیک”
  • Venetian: “Baja de Chesapeake”
  • Vietnamese: “vịnh Chesapeake”
  • Vietnamese: “Vịnh Chesapeake”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Bahia han Chesapeake”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Baybayon han Chesapeake”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Chesapeake Bay”
  • Western Frisian: “Chesapeake Bay”
  • Western Frisian: “Chesapeakebaai”

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