Wadden Sea
The Wadden Sea is an intertidal zone in the southeastern part of the North Sea. It is a shallow body of water with tidal flats and wetlands between the mainlands of the Netherlands, Germany, and Denmark, and the Frisian Islands.
- Type: Sea
- Description: intertidal zone in the southeastern part of the North Sea (Netherlands, Germany and Denmark)
- Also known as: “Mar Wadden”, “Mer de Wadden”, “Morze Wattów”, “Nordsee-Watt”, “Nordsee-Wattenmeer”, “Vadehavet (agianan nga kadagatan sa Dinamarka, Region Syddanmark)”, “Vadeno jūra”, “Vadomaro”, “Vatti”, “Wääd”, “Wadden Sea (North Sea)”, “Waddengebied”, “Waddenmeer”, “Waddezie”, “Waddeziè”, “Watt”, “Wattensee”, “Wattové moře”, “Werelderfgoed de Waddenzee”, “Вадден-Зее”, “Ваддензе”, “Ваддензее”, “Вадденское море”, “Вадденське море”, “Ваденське море”, “ვატოვის ზღვა”, and “ヴァッデン海”
Wadden Sea
- Categories: marginal sea, geotope, and biotope
- Location: Het Hogeland, Groningen, Northern Netherlands, Netherlands, Benelux, Europe
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Latitude of center
53.5333° or 53° 32′ north
Longitude of center
6.8833° or 6° 53′ east
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In Other Languages
From Afrikaans to Zeeuws—“Wadden Sea” goes by many names.
- Afrikaans: “Waddensee”
- Afrikaans: “Waddesee”
- Arabic: “بحر وادن”
- Armenian: “Վատտեն ծով”
- Asturian: “Mar de Frisia”
- Azerbaijani: “Vadden dənizi”
- Balinese: “Segara Wadden”
- Basque: “Wadden itsasoa”
- Belarusian: “Вадэнскае мора”
- Breton: “Mor Wadden”
- Bulgarian: “Ваденско море”
- Catalan: “mar de Wadden”
- Catalan: “Mar de Wadden”
- Cebuano: “Wadden Sea”
- Chinese: “瓦登海”
- Croatian: “Vadensko more”
- Croatian: “Waddensko more”
- Czech: “Waddenské moře”
- Czech: “Waddenzee”
- Danish: “Vadehavet”
- Dutch: “Waddenzee”
- Esperanto: “Vadamaro”
- Esperanto: “Vadmaro”
- Estonian: “Waddenzee”
- Finnish: “Vattimeri”
- French: “mer des Wadden”
- French: “Mer des Wadden”
- Galician: “Mar de Wadden”
- Georgian: “ვადენზეე”
- German: “Wattenmeer (Nordsee)”
- German: “Wattenmeer der Nordsee”
- German: “Wattenmeer”
- Greek: “Θάλασσα του Βάντεν”
- Hausa: “Tekun wadden”
- Hebrew: “ים ואדן”
- Hindi: “वाडन सागर”
- Hungarian: “Watt-tenger”
- Icelandic: “Vaðhafið”
- Igbo: “Wadden Sea”
- Indonesian: “Laut Wadden”
- Irish: “Muir Wadden”
- Italian: “Mare dei Wadden”
- Japanese: “ワッデン海”
- Karachay-Balkar: “Ватт тенгиз”
- Korean: “바덴해”
- Latin: “Mare Frisium”
- Latvian: “Vatu jūra”
- Limburgan: “Waddezieë”
- Lithuanian: “Vatų jūra”
- Low German: “Waddensee”
- Low German: “Waddenzee”
- Luxembourgish: “Wattemier”
- Macedonian: “Ваденско Море”
- Maltese: “Baħar ta‘ Wadden”
- Maltese: “Baħar ta’ Wadden”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Wadden Hái”
- Northern Frisian: “Waas”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Vadehavet”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Vadehavet”
- Norwegian: “Vadehavet”
- Ossetian: “Ватты денджыз”
- Persian: “دریای وادن”
- Polish: “Morze Wattowe”
- Portuguese: “Mar Frísio”
- Romanian: “Marea Wadden”
- Russian: “Ваттовое море”
- Saterfriesisch: “Wäädsee”
- Serbian: “Ваденско море”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Waddensko more”
- Slovak: “Waddensee”
- Slovenian: “Vatsko morje”
- South Azerbaijani: “وادن دنیزی”
- Spanish: “mar de Frisia”
- Spanish: “Mar de Frisia”
- Swahili: “Bahari ya Wadden”
- Swedish: “Vadehavet”
- Tatar: “Ваттен диңгезе”
- Thai: “ทะเลวัดเดน”
- Turkish: “Wadden Denizi”
- Ukrainian: “Ваттове море”
- Urdu: “بحیرہ وادن”
- Venetian: “Mar de Frìzia”
- Vietnamese: “Biển Wadden”
- Vlaams: “Waddnzêe”
- Welsh: “Y Môr Wadden”
- Western Frisian: “Waadsee”
- Wu Chinese: “瓦登海”
- Yoruba: “Wadden Sea”
- Yue Chinese: “華登海”
- Zeeuws: “Waddenzeê”
- “Wadden Sea”
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