Europe

North Sea

The North Sea is a body of water surrounded by the following countries: There are sizeable islands and archipelagos around the edges of the North Sea, including the , and .
Tap on a place
to explore it
Wikivoyage
Wikipedia
Photo: Tsca, CC BY 2.5.
Photo: Dg-505, CC BY 3.0.
  • Type: Sea
  • Description: marginal sea of the Atlantic Ocean
  • Also known as: “British Ocean”, “Cimbric Sea”, “Cumbric Sea”, “Cymbric Sea”, “German Ocean”, “German Sea”, “North Sea / Nordsee / Noordzee / Nordsøen / Nordsjøen / Mer du Nord”, “the British Ocean”, “the German Sea”, and “the North Sea”
  • Neighbors:

North Sea

Latitude of center
56.0028° or 56° 0′ 10″ north
Longitude of center
3.0001° or 3° 0′ 1″ east
Open­Street­Map ID
node 7096172021
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­sea
Wiki­data ID
Q1693
This page is based on OpenStreetMap, Wikidata, Wikimedia Commons, and Wikivoyage.
We’d love your help improving our open data sources. Thank you for contributing.

Satellite Map

Discover North Sea from above in high-definition satellite imagery.
© Stadia Maps, Airbus DS, CNES, PlanetObserver, and Copernicus

In Other Languages

From Abkhazian to Zeeuws—“North Sea” goes by many names.
  • Abkhazian: “Ҩадахьтәи амшын”
  • Afrikaans: “Noordsee”
  • Albanian: “Deti i Veriut”
  • Amharic: “ስሜን ባሕር”
  • Ancient Greek (to 1453): “Γερμανικὴ Θάλασσα”
  • Ancient Greek (to 1453): “Γερμανικὸς Ὠκεανός”
  • Angika: “उत्तरी सागर”
  • Arabic: “بحر الشمال”
  • Aragonese: “Mar d’o Norte”
  • Armenian: “Հյուսիսային ծով”
  • Arpitan: “Mar de Bise”
  • Arpitan: “Mar du Nord”
  • Assamese: “উত্তৰ সাগৰ”
  • Asturian: “mar del Norte”
  • Asturian: “Mar del Norte”
  • Awadhi: “उत्तरी सागर”
  • Azerbaijani: “Şimal dənizi”
  • Balinese: “Segara Kalér”
  • Bashkir: “Төньяҡ диңгеҙ”
  • Basque: “Ipar itsasoa”
  • Bavarian: “Noadsee”
  • Bavarian: “Nordsee”
  • Belarusian: “Паўночнае мора”
  • Bengali: “উত্তর সাগর”
  • Bhojpuri: “नॉर्थ सागर”
  • Bosnian: “Sjeverno more”
  • Breton: “Mor an Hanternoz”
  • Bulgarian: “Северно море”
  • Burmese: “မြောက်ပင်လယ်”
  • Catalan: “mar del Nord”
  • Catalan: “Mar del Nord”
  • Catalan: “Mer du Nord”
  • Catalan: “Noordzee”
  • Catalan: “Nordsee”
  • Catalan: “North Sea”
  • Cebuano: “Dagat Amihanan”
  • Central Kurdish: “دەریای باکوور”
  • Chechen: “Къилбаседа хӀорд”
  • Chinese: “Pak-hái”
  • Chinese: “北海”
  • Chuvash: “Çурçĕр тинĕсĕ”
  • Cornish: “Mor Kledh”
  • Corsican: “Mare di u Nordu”
  • Crimean Tatar: “Şimaliy deñiz”
  • Croatian: “Sjeverno more”
  • Czech: “Severní moře”
  • Danish: “Nordsøen”
  • Danish: “Vesterhavet”
  • Dimli (individual language): “Deryay Zımey”
  • Dimli (individual language): “Deryayê Zımey”
  • Dutch: “Noordzee”
  • Eastern Mari: “Йӱдвел теҥыз”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “بحر الشمال”
  • Esperanto: “Norda maro”
  • Esperanto: “Norda Maro”
  • Estonian: “Põhjameri”
  • Extremaduran: “Mari del Norti”
  • Faroese: “Norðsjógvurin”
  • Fiji Hindi: “North Samundar”
  • Finnish: “Pohjanmeri”
  • French: “mer du Nord”
  • French: “Mer du Nord”
  • Galician: “Mar do Norte”
  • Georgian: “ჩრდილოეთის ზღვა”
  • German: “Nordsee”
  • Gilaki: “کلسيا دریا”
  • Greek: “Βόρεια Θάλασσα”
  • Guarani: “Para Yvatevogua”
  • Hakka Chinese: “Pet-hói”
  • Hebrew: “הים הצפוני”
  • Hindi: “उत्तरी सागर”
  • Hungarian: “Északi-tenger”
  • Icelandic: “Norðursjór”
  • Ido: “Norda Maro”
  • Iloko: “Baybay Amianan”
  • Inari Sami: “Tavemeerâ”
  • Indonesian: “Laut Utara”
  • Interlingua: “Mar del Nord”
  • Irish: “an Mhuir Thuaidh”
  • Irish: “An Mhuir Thuaidh”
  • Italian: “mare del Nord”
  • Italian: “Mare del Nord”
  • Japanese: “北海”
  • Javanese: “Sagara Lor”
  • Javanese: “Segara Lor”
  • Kabiyè: “Hayɩ Kiŋ Teŋgu”
  • Kabiyè: “Hayʊ Kiŋ Teŋgu”
  • Kabyle: “Ilel n Ugafa”
  • Kalo Finnish Romani: “Botnosko ȟyönos”
  • Kannada: “ಉತ್ತರ ಸಮುದ್ರ”
  • Kannada: “ನಾರ್ತ್ ಸಮುದ್ರ”
  • Kara-Kalpak: “Arqa teńiz”
  • Karachay-Balkar: “Шимал тенгиз”
  • Kashubian: “Nordowé Mòrzé”
  • Kazakh: “Солтүстік теңіз”
  • Kazakh: “Солтүстік теңізі”
  • Kirghiz: “Түндүк деңиз”
  • Kölsch: “Nordsee”
  • Korean: “독일해”
  • Korean: “북해”
  • Kurdish: “Deryaya Bakur”
  • Ladin: “mer dl Nord”
  • Ladin: “Mer dl Nord”
  • Latgalian: “Pūstumu jiura”
  • Latin: “Mare Cimbricum”
  • Latin: “Mare Germanicum”
  • Latvian: “Ziemeļjūra”
  • Lezghian: “Кеферпатан гьуьл”
  • Ligurian: “Mâ do Nord”
  • Limburgan: “Noordzie”
  • Lingua Franca Nova: “Mar Norde”
  • Lithuanian: “Šiaurės jūra”
  • Livvi: “Pohjanmeri”
  • Lojban: “berti xamsi”
  • Lombard: “Mar del Nord”
  • Low German: “Noordsee”
  • Low German: “Noordzee”
  • Lower Sorbian: “Pódpołnocne mórjo”
  • Luxembourgish: “Nordmier”
  • Macedonian: “Северно Море”
  • Malagasy: “Ranomasina Avaratra”
  • Malay: “Laut Utara”
  • Malayalam: “വടക്കൻ കടൽ”
  • Manx: “Mooir Hostyn”
  • Marathi: “उत्तर समुद्र”
  • Mazanderani: “شمال دریا”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Pak-hái”
  • Mingrelian: “ოორუეშ ზუღა”
  • Mirandese: “Mar de l Norte”
  • Mongolian: “Хойд тэнгис”
  • Nepali: “उत्तरी सागर”
  • Newari: “उत्तर सागर”
  • Northern Frisian: “Nuurdsia”
  • Northern Frisian: “Weestsiie”
  • Northern Sami: “Davvimearra”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Nordsjøen”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Vesterhavet”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Nordsjøen”
  • Norwegian: “Nordsjøen”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Mar del Nòrd”
  • Official Aramaic (700-300 BCE): “ܝܡܐ ܕܓܪܒܝܐ”
  • Old English (ca. 450-1100): “Norþsæ”
  • Old English (ca. 450-1100): “Norþsǣ”
  • Ossetian: “Цæгат денджыз”
  • Panjabi: “ਉੱਤਰੀ ਸਮੁੰਦਰ”
  • Panjabi: “ਉੱਤਰੀ ਸਾਗਰ”
  • Persian: “دریای شمال”
  • Picard: “Mér Nord”
  • Picard: “Mèr Nord”
  • Piemontese: “Mar dël Nòrd”
  • Polish: “Morze Północne”
  • Portuguese: “Mar do Norte”
  • Pushto: “شمالي سمندر”
  • Romanian: “Marea Nordului”
  • Russia Buriat: “Хойто тэнгис”
  • Russian: “Северное море”
  • Rusyn: “Северне море”
  • Samogitian: “Šiaurės jūra”
  • Santali: “ᱮᱛᱚᱢ ᱥᱟ.ᱢᱩᱫᱽ”
  • Santali: “ᱮᱛᱚᱢ ᱫᱚᱨᱭᱟ”
  • Saraiki: “بحیرہ شمالی”
  • Sardinian: “Mare de su Nord”
  • Saterfriesisch: “Noudsee”
  • Scots: “German Ocean”
  • Scots: “North Sea”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “An Cuan a Tuath”
  • Serbian: “Severno more”
  • Serbian: “Северно море”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Sjeverno more”
  • Sicilian: “Mari dû nord”
  • Sindhi: “اتر سمنڊ”
  • Skolt Sami: “Vuâđđmiârr”
  • Slovak: “Severné more”
  • Slovenian: “Severno morje”
  • South Azerbaijani: “قوزئی دنیزی”
  • Spanish: “mar del Norte”
  • Spanish: “Mar del Norte”
  • Sundanese: “Laut Kalér”
  • Swahili: “Bahari ya Kaskazini”
  • Swedish: “Nordsjön”
  • Swedish: “Västerhavet”
  • Swiss German: “Nordsee”
  • Tagalog: “Dagat Hilaga”
  • Tajik: “Баҳри Шимолӣ”
  • Tamil: “வடகடல்”
  • Tatar: “Төньяк диңгез”
  • Telugu: “ఉత్తర సముద్రం”
  • Thai: “ทะเลเหนือ”
  • Tosk Albanian: “Nordsee”
  • Turkish: “Kuzey Denizi”
  • Turkmen: “Demirgazyk deňzi”
  • Tyap: “Kyai A̱sa̱khwot A̱za”
  • Udmurt: “Уйпал зарезь”
  • Ukrainian: “Північне море”
  • Upper Sorbian: “Sewjerne morjo”
  • Urdu: “بحیرہ شمال”
  • Uzbek: “Shimoliy dengiz”
  • Venetian: “Mar del Nord”
  • Veps: “Pohjoižmeri”
  • Vietnamese: “Bắc Hải”
  • Vietnamese: “Biển Bắc”
  • Vietnamese: “Đại dương Đức”
  • Vlaams: “Nôordzêe”
  • Volapük: “Nolüdamel”
  • Võro: “Põh’ameri”
  • Walloon: “Mer do Nôr”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Dagat Amihanan”
  • Welsh: “Môr y Gogledd”
  • Western Armenian: “Հիւսիսային Ծով”
  • Western Frisian: “Noardsee”
  • Western Panjabi: “بحیرہ شمال”
  • Western Panjabi: “شمالی سمندر”
  • Wu Chinese: “北海（大西洋）”
  • Wu Chinese: “北海”
  • Yakut: “Хотугу муора”
  • Yiddish: “צפון ים”
  • Yue Chinese: “北海”
  • Zeeuws: “Noôrdzeê”
  • “Mare d’u Nord”
  • “Põh’ameri”
  • “Šiaurės jūra”
  • “नॉर्थ सागर”

Europe: Must-Visit Destinations

Delve into Central Europe, Britain and Ireland, Italy, and Balkans.

Explore These Curated Destinations

Discover places selected for their distinct character and enduring appeal.
About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikivoyage page “North Sea”. Photo: Dg-505, CC BY 3.0.