Curonian Spit
The Curonian Spit is a sandy peninsula in the Baltic Sea, 99 km long but only 0.5 to 4 km wide. Its northern part is in Lithuania Minor and its south in the Russian exclave of Kaliningrad Oblast: both countries regard it as a national park and it's a bi-national UNESCO World Heritage Site.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: Wojsyl, CC BY-SA 3.0.
- Type: Spit
- Description: dune spit in Lithuania and Russia
- Also known as: “Courland Spit”, “Curonian Spit Kaliningrad”, “Kosa Kurisch Nerung”, “Kosa Kurishe-Nerung”, “Kuhrische Nehrung”, “Kurshskaya Kosa”, “Kursiu nerija”, “Kuršių Neringa”, “Kurskaja Kosa”, “Kurskaya Kosa”, and “Užmaris”
Curonian Spit
- Categories: spit and World Heritage Site
- Location: Baltic states, Europe
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In Other Languages
From Afrikaans to Wu Chinese—“Curonian Spit” goes by many names.
- Afrikaans: “Koerse Skoorwal”
- Arabic: “برزخ قورش”
- Azerbaijani: “Kurş dili”
- Basque: “Kurlandiako istmoa”
- Belarusian: “Курская пярэспа”
- Belarusian: “Куршская каса”
- Bosnian: “Kurska prevlaka”
- Breton: “Erv Kourland”
- Bulgarian: “Куршка коса”
- Bulgarian: “Куршска коса”
- Catalan: “Istme de Curlàndia”
- Cebuano: “Kuršių nerija”
- Chinese: “庫爾斯沙嘴”
- Chuvash: “Курш сăмсахĕ”
- Croatian: “Kurska prevlaka”
- Czech: “Kuronská kosa”
- Czech: “Kurská kosa”
- Czech: “Kurský poloostrov”
- Czech: “Kuršská kosa”
- Danish: “Den kuriske landtange”
- Danish: “Den Kuriske landtange”
- Dutch: “Koerse Schoorwal”
- Esperanto: “Kurona duoninsulo”
- Estonian: “Kura maasäär”
- Estonian: “Kura säär”
- Finnish: “Kuurin kynnäs”
- Finnish: “Kuurinkynnäs”
- French: “isthme de Courlande”
- French: “Isthme de Courlande”
- Georgian: “კურშის ცელა”
- German: “Kurische Nehrung”
- Greek: “Αμμολωρίδα της Κουρονίας”
- Greek: “Κουρονική γλώσσα ξηράς”
- Hawaiian: “Kūlani Kuha”
- Hebrew: “הרצועה הקורונית”
- Hindi: “कौरोनियन स्पिट”
- Hungarian: “Kur-földnyelv”
- Ido: “Kurland-istmo”
- Indonesian: “Bura Curonian”
- Indonesian: “Bura Kuron”
- Indonesian: “Kuron”
- Italian: “Penisola curlandese”
- Italian: “Penisola dei Curoni”
- Italian: “Penisola di Neringa”
- Japanese: “クルシュー砂州”
- Korean: “쿠로니아 사주”
- Latin: “Lingua terrae Curonica”
- Latvian: “Kuršu kāpas”
- Lithuanian: “Kuršių nerija”
- Macedonian: “Курски Провлак”
- Maltese: “Istmu Kuronjan”
- Marathi: “कुरोनियन स्पिट”
- Northern Frisian: “Kuurisk Neerang”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Den kuriske landtunge”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Den kuriske landtunga”
- Norwegian: “Den kuriske landtunge”
- Ossetian: “Куршаг цæвæгау”
- Persian: “نواره کورونی”
- Polish: “Mierzeja Kurońska”
- Portuguese: “Istmo da Curlândia”
- Romanian: “Cordonul litoral al Curlandei”
- Russian: “Куршская коса Калининград”
- Russian: “Куршская коса”
- Russian: “Куршская Коса”
- Samogitian: “Koršiu nerėjė”
- Samogitian: “Koršiu Nerėjė”
- Scots: “Curonian Spit”
- Serbian: “Курска превлака”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Kurska prevlaka”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Kurška prevlaka”
- Slovak: “Kuršská kosa”
- Slovenian: “Kurska kosa”
- Spanish: “Istmo de Curlandia”
- Swedish: “Kuriska näset”
- Tatar: “Курша комборыны”
- Turkish: “Kuron Dili”
- Ukrainian: “Куршська коса”
- Upper Sorbian: “Kurska kosa”
- Vietnamese: “Mũi đất Kursh”
- Wu Chinese: “库尔斯沙嘴”
- “Koršiu Nerėjė”
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