Denmark Strait
The Denmark Strait is the strait that separates Greenland from Iceland.Photo: Akigka, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.
- Type: Strait
- Description: oceanic strait between Greenland to its northwest and Iceland to its southeast
- Also known as: “Greenland Strait” and “Strait of Denmark”
Denmark Strait
- Category: body of water
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Latitude
67° northLongitude
-26° or 26° westOpen location code
99VP2222+22OpenStreetMap ID
node 305639213OpenStreetMap feature
natural=straitWikidata ID
Q152058
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In Other Languages
From Afrikaans to Yue Chinese—“Denmark Strait” goes by many names.
- Afrikaans: “Straat van Denemarke”
- Arabic: “مضيق الدنمارك”
- Armenian: “Դանիական նեղուց”
- Asturian: “estrechu de Dinamarca”
- Asturian: “Estrechu de Dinamarca”
- Azerbaijani: “Danimark boğazı”
- Azerbaijani: “Danimarka boğazı”
- Bashkir: “Дат боғаҙы”
- Basque: “Danimarkako itsasartea”
- Belarusian: “Грэнландскі праліў”
- Belarusian: “Дацкая пратока”
- Belarusian: “Дацкі праліў”
- Bengali: “ডেনমার্ক প্রণালি”
- Bengali: “ডেনমার্ক প্রণালী”
- Bosnian: “Danski prolaz”
- Breton: “Strizh-mor Danmark”
- Bulgarian: “Датски проток”
- Catalan: “estret de Dinamarca”
- Catalan: “Estret de Dinamarca”
- Chechen: “Датхойн хидоькъе”
- Chinese: “Tan-be̍h Hái-kiap”
- Chinese: “丹麥海峽”
- Chinese: “丹麦海峡”
- Croatian: “Danski prolaz”
- Czech: “Dánský průliv”
- Danish: “Danmarksstrædet”
- Danish: “Danmarkstrædet”
- Dutch: “Denemarkenstraat”
- Dutch: “Straat Denemarken”
- Dutch: “Straat van Denemarken”
- Esperanto: “Dania Markolo”
- Estonian: “Taani väin”
- Finnish: “Tanskan salmi”
- Finnish: “Tanskansalmi”
- French: “Detroit de Danemark”
- French: “détroit de Danemark”
- French: “Détroit de Danemark”
- French: “Détroit du Danemark”
- Galician: “Estreito de Dinamarca”
- Galician: “Estreito de Grenlandia”
- Georgian: “დანიის სრუტე”
- German: “Dänemark-Strasse”
- German: “Dänemark-Straße”
- German: “Dänemarkstrasse”
- German: “Dänemarkstraße”
- Greek: “Πορθμός της Δανίας”
- Hebrew: “מצר דנמרק”
- Hindi: “डेनमार्क जलसन्धि”
- Hungarian: “Dánia-szoros”
- Icelandic: “Grænlandssund”
- Indonesian: “Selat Denmark”
- Italian: “Canale di Danimarca”
- Italian: “Stretto di Danimarca”
- Japanese: “デンマーク海峡”
- Kirghiz: “Дания кысыгы”
- Kölsch: “Dänemarkstraße”
- Kölsch: “Dänemarkstrooß”
- Korean: “덴마크 해협”
- Latin: “Fretum Daniae”
- Latvian: “Dāņu šaurums”
- Lithuanian: “Danijos sąsiauris”
- Macedonian: “Дански Проток”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Tan-be̍h Hái-kiap”
- Mingrelian: “დანიაშ საროტი”
- Nepali: “डेनमार्क जलसन्धि”
- Newari: “डेनमार्क जलसन्धि”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Danmarksstrædet”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Danmarksstredet”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Danmarkstredet”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Danmarksundet”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Grænlandssund”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Danmarksstrædet”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Danmarkstredet”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Danmarksundet”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Grænlandssund”
- Norwegian: “Danmarkstredet”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Estrech de Danemarc”
- Panjabi: “ਡੈੱਨਮਾਰਕ ਪਣਜੋੜ”
- Persian: “تنگه دانمارک”
- Persian: “خلیج عقبه”
- Polish: “Cieśnina Duńska”
- Portuguese: “Estreito da Dinamarca”
- Romanian: “Strâmtoarea Danemarcei”
- Russian: “Гренландский пролив”
- Russian: “Датский пролив”
- Saraiki: “آبنائے ڈنمارک”
- Serbian: “Danski prolaz”
- Serbian: “Дански мореуз”
- Serbian: “Дански пролаз”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Danski prolaz”
- Slovak: “Dánsky prieliv”
- Slovenian: “Danski preliv”
- Spanish: “Estrecho de Dinamarca”
- Spanish: “Estrecho de Groenlandia”
- Swahili: “Mlangobahari wa Denmark”
- Swedish: “Danmarkssundet”
- Swedish: “Danmarksundet”
- Tamil: “டென்மார்க் நீரிணை”
- Tamil: “டென்மார்க் ஜலசந்தி”
- Thai: “ช่องแคบเดนมาร์ก”
- Turkish: “Danimarka Boğazı”
- Ukrainian: “Гренландська протока”
- Ukrainian: “Данська протока”
- Ukrainian: “Датська протока”
- Urdu: “آبنائے ڈنمارک”
- Vietnamese: “Eo biển Đan Mạch”
- Waray (Philippines): “Denmark Strait”
- Waray (Philippines): “Estrecho ha Denmark”
- Waray (Philippines): “Estrecho ha Dinamarka”
- Waray (Philippines): “Sulang han Dinamarka”
- Western Frisian: “Strjitte fan Denemark”
- Western Panjabi: “آبنائے ڈنمارک”
- Wu Chinese: “丹麦海峡”
- Yue Chinese: “丹麥海峽”
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