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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.
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  • Type: Sea
  • Description: intertidal zone in the southeastern part of the North Sea (Netherlands, Germany and Denmark)
  • Also known as: “Vadehavet” and “Wadden Sea (North Sea)”

Wadden Sea

Latitude of center
53.5333° or 53° 32′ north
Longitude of center
6.8833° or 6° 53′ east
Open­Street­Map ID
node 4805502333
Geo­Names ID
11152677
Wiki­data ID
Q26080
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Satellite Map

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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”
  • Catalan: “Vadehavet”
  • Catalan: “Waddenzee”
  • Catalan: “Wattenmeer”
  • Catalan: “Wattensee”
  • Cebuano: “Vadehavet (agianan nga kadagatan sa Dinamarka, Region Syddanmark)”
  • Cebuano: “Vadehavet”
  • Cebuano: “Wadden Sea”
  • Chinese: “Wadden Hái”
  • Chinese: “瓦登海”
  • Chinese: “華登海”
  • Croatian: “Vadensko more”
  • Croatian: “Waddensko more”
  • Croatian: “Waddenzee”
  • Czech: “Waddenské moře”
  • Czech: “Waddenzee”
  • Czech: “Wattové moře”
  • Danish: “Vadehavet”
  • Dutch: “Waddengebied”
  • Dutch: “Waddenzee”
  • Dutch: “Werelderfgoed de Waddenzee”
  • Esperanto: “Vadamaro”
  • Esperanto: “Vadmaro”
  • Esperanto: “Vadomaro”
  • Estonian: “Waddenzee”
  • Estonian: “Wattenmeer”
  • Finnish: “Vadehavet”
  • Finnish: “Vatti”
  • Finnish: “Vattimeri”
  • Finnish: “Waadsee”
  • Finnish: “Waddenzee”
  • Finnish: “Wattenmeer”
  • Finnish: “Wattensee”
  • French: “Mer de Wadden”
  • French: “mer des Wadden”
  • French: “Mer des Wadden”
  • French: “Wattenmeer”
  • Galician: “Mar de Wadden”
  • Georgian: “ვადენზეე”
  • Georgian: “ვატოვის ზღვა”
  • German: “Nordsee-Watt”
  • German: “Nordsee-Wattenmeer”
  • German: “Watt”
  • German: “Wattenmeer (Nordsee)”
  • German: “Wattenmeer der Nordsee”
  • German: “Wattenmeer”
  • Greek: “Θάλασσα του Βάντεν”
  • Hausa: “Tekun wadden”
  • Hebrew: “ים ואדן”
  • Hindi: “वैडन सागर (उत्तरी सागर)”
  • Hungarian: “Watt-tenger”
  • Icelandic: “Vaðhafið”
  • Indonesian: “Laut Wadden”
  • Irish: “Muir Wadden”
  • Italian: “Mare dei Wadden”
  • Italian: “Waddenzee”
  • Japanese: “ヴァッデン海”
  • Japanese: “ワッデン海”
  • Karachay-Balkar: “Ватт тенгиз”
  • Korean: “바덴해”
  • Latin: “Mare Frisium”
  • Latvian: “Vatu jūra”
  • Latvian: “Waadsee”
  • Latvian: “Waddenzee”
  • Latvian: “Wattenmeer”
  • Limburgan: “Waddezie”
  • Limburgan: “Waddeziè”
  • Limburgan: “Waddezieë”
  • Lithuanian: “Vadeno jūra”
  • 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 Nynorsk: “Waadsee”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Waddenmeer”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Waddenzee”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Wattenmeer”
  • Norwegian: “Vadehavet”
  • Ossetian: “Ватты денджыз”
  • Persian: “دریای وادن”
  • Polish: “Morze Wattów”
  • Polish: “Morze Wattowe”
  • Polish: “Waddenzee”
  • Polish: “Wattenmeer”
  • Portuguese: “Mar de Wadden”
  • Portuguese: “Mar Frísio”
  • Portuguese: “Mar Wadden”
  • Portuguese: “Vadehavet”
  • Portuguese: “Waadsee”
  • Portuguese: “Waddenzee”
  • Portuguese: “Wattenmeer”
  • Romanian: “Marea Wadden”
  • Romanian: “Wattenmeer”
  • Russian: “Вадден-Зее”
  • Russian: “Ваддензе”
  • Russian: “Ваддензее”
  • Russian: “Вадденское море”
  • Russian: “Ваттовое море”
  • Saterfriesisch: “Wääd”
  • Saterfriesisch: “Wäädsee”
  • Saterfriesisch: “Wattenmeer”
  • Serbian: “Ваденско море”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Waddensko more”
  • Slovak: “Waddensee”
  • Slovak: “Waddenzee”
  • Slovenian: “Vatsko morje”
  • South Azerbaijani: “وادن دنیزی”
  • Spanish: “mar de Frisia”
  • Spanish: “Mar de Frisia”
  • Spanish: “mar de Wadden”
  • Swahili: “Bahari ya Wadden”
  • Swedish: “Vadehavet”
  • Tatar: “Ваттен диңгезе”
  • Thai: “ทะเลวัดเดน”
  • Turkish: “Wadden Denizi”
  • Ukrainian: “Вадденське море”
  • Ukrainian: “Ваденське море”
  • 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”
  • Yue Chinese: “華登海”
  • Zeeuws: “Waddenzeê”

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