Zealand
Zealand is the largest island in Denmark, located between the Island of Funen and the southern tip of Sweden. It is the seat of the capital Copenhagen and home to 2.3 million people.
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North Zealand is a region in Denmark, in the northeastern part of the island of Zealand. More accurately, it is the area north of Copenhagen and east of Ise Fjord.
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Zealand
- Type: Island with 2,500,000 residents
- Description: island in Denmark
- Also known as: “Sealand”, “Seeland”, “Sjaelland”, and “Zealand Island”
- Location: Denmark, Nordic countries, Europe
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Latitude of center
55.5° or 55° 30′ north
Longitude of center
11.75° or 11° 45′ east
Population
2,500,000
Elevation
34 metres (112 feet)
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In Other Languages
From Albanian to Zeeuws—“Zealand” goes by many names.
- Albanian: “Zealand”
- Arabic: “زيلاند”
- Arabic: “زيلند”
- Armenian: “Զելանդիա”
- Asturian: “Selandia”
- Azerbaijani: “Zelandiya”
- Bashkir: “Зеландия”
- Basque: “Seelandia”
- Basque: “Sjaelland”
- Basque: “Sjælland”
- Basque: “Zeelanda eskualdea”
- Bavarian: “Seeland”
- Belarusian: “Востраў Зеландыя”
- Belarusian: “Зеландыя”
- Belarusian: “Зэляндыя”
- Belarusian: “Ш’елян”
- Bengali: “জিল্যান্ড”
- Bosnian: “Sjælland”
- Bosnian: “Zeland”
- Breton: “Sjaelland”
- Breton: “Sjælland”
- Bulgarian: “Шеланд”
- Catalan: “Seeland”
- Catalan: “Selanda”
- Catalan: “Selàndia”
- Catalan: “Sjaelland”
- Catalan: “Sjælland”
- Catalan: “Zaeland”
- Catalan: “Zealand”
- Cebuano: “Sjælland (pulo sa Dinamarka)”
- Cebuano: “Sjælland”
- Chinese: “舍蘭島”
- Chinese: “西兰岛”
- Chinese: “西蘭島”
- Croatian: “Sjælland”
- Croatian: “Zeland”
- Czech: “Sjaelland”
- Czech: “Sjælland”
- Czech: “Zéland”
- Danish: “Djævleøen”
- Danish: “Sjælland”
- Dutch: “Seeland”
- Egyptian Arabic: “زيلين”
- Esperanto: “Sjaelland”
- Esperanto: “Sjælland”
- Esperanto: “Zelando”
- Estonian: “Sjaelland”
- Estonian: “Sjælland”
- Estonian: “Själland”
- Faroese: “Sæland”
- Fiji Hindi: “Zealand”
- Finnish: “Sjælland”
- Finnish: “Själland”
- Finnish: “Själlanti”
- Finnish: “Sjellanti”
- French: “Seeland”
- French: “Sjaelland”
- French: “Zealand”
- French: “Zélande”
- Galician: “Selandia”
- Georgian: “ზელანდია”
- German: “Seeland”
- German: “Sjaelland”
- German: “Sjælland”
- Greek: “Ζηλανδία”
- Greek: “Σγιαίλαν”
- Greek: “Σγιέλαν”
- Greek: “Σέλαιν”
- Greek: “Σέλαν”
- Greek: “Σχέλαν”
- Gujarati: “ઝિલેન્ડ”
- Hebrew: “זילנד”
- Hebrew: “שילנד”
- Hebrew: “שלן”
- Hindi: “ज़ीलैंड”
- Hungarian: “Sjaelland”
- Hungarian: “Sjælland”
- Icelandic: “Sjáland”
- Ido: “Sjælland”
- Indonesian: “Sjaelland”
- Indonesian: “Zealand”
- Interlingua: “Selandia”
- Italian: “Selandia”
- Italian: “Sjaeland”
- Italian: “Sjaelland”
- Italian: “Sjælland”
- Italian: “Sjelland”
- Italian: “Zelanda”
- Japanese: “シェラン島”
- Japanese: “シェルラン島”
- Japanese: “ツェラン島”
- Kalaallisut: “Sjælland”
- Kannada: “ಜಿಲ್ಯಾಂಡ್”
- Kazakh: “Зеландия”
- Kirghiz: “Зеландия”
- Korean: “셸란 섬”
- Korean: “셸란섬”
- Korean: “질랜드 섬”
- Lao: “ເກາະຊີແລນ”
- Latin: “Selandia”
- Latin: “Silandia”
- Latin: “Sjaellandia”
- Latvian: “Zēlande”
- Lithuanian: “Zelandija”
- Lombard: “Selandia”
- Low German: “Seeland”
- Macedonian: “Зеланд”
- Malagasy: “Sjælland”
- Malay: “Zealand”
- Manx: “Yn Teelynn, y Danvarg”
- Manx: “Yn Teelynn”
- Maori: “Tireni”
- Marathi: “स्यीलंड”
- Northern Frisian: “Seelön”
- Northern Frisian: “Sialun”
- Northern Frisian: “Siielönj”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Nordsjælland”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Sjælland”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Sjællendar”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Sjællender”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Skjælland”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Sjælland”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Zealand”
- Norwegian: “Sjælland”
- Ossetian: “Зеланди (сакъадах)”
- Ossetian: “Зеланди”
- Persian: “جزیره شیلند”
- Persian: “جزیرهٔ شیلند”
- Persian: “زیلند”
- Persian: “شیلند”
- Polish: “Zelandia”
- Portuguese: “Sjælland”
- Portuguese: “Zelândia”
- Romanian: “Sjælland”
- Romanian: “Zealand”
- Russian: “Зеландия”
- Russian: “Остров Зеландия”
- Russian: “Шелланн”
- Samoan: “Sila”
- Scots: “Zealand”
- Scottish Gaelic: “Sjælland”
- Serbian: “Sjælland”
- Serbian: “Селанд”
- Serbian: “Шеланд”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Sjælland”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Zeland”
- Sicilian: “Ìsula di Zilanna”
- Sicilian: “Silanna”
- Sicilian: “Zilanna”
- Sinhala: “සීලන්තය”
- Slovak: “Sjælland”
- Slovenian: “Zelandija”
- Spanish: “Selanda”
- Spanish: “Selandia”
- Spanish: “Sjaelland”
- Spanish: “Sjælland”
- Spanish: “Zealand”
- Swahili: “Zeland”
- Swedish: “Nord-Själland”
- Swedish: “Nordsjälland”
- Swedish: “Seland”
- Swedish: “Sjaelland”
- Swedish: “Sjælland”
- Swedish: “Själland”
- Swedish: “Själländsk”
- Tagalog: “Djævleøen”
- Tagalog: “Sjælland”
- Tamil: “ஸிலாண்ட்”
- Tatar: “Зеландия”
- Telugu: “జీలాండ్”
- Thai: “Zealand”
- Thai: “เกาะเชลลันด์”
- Thai: “ซีแลนด์”
- Turkish: “Sjaelland”
- Turkish: “Sjælland”
- Turkish: “Zealand”
- Ukrainian: “Зеландія”
- Urdu: “زیلینڈ”
- Uzbek: “Shellann”
- Uzbek: “Zelandiya”
- Vietnamese: “Sjaelland”
- Vietnamese: “Sjælland”
- Vietnamese: “Zealand”
- Waray (Philippines): “Sjælland”
- Welsh: “Sjælland”
- Wu Chinese: “西兰岛”
- Yue Chinese: “斯崙島”
- Zeeuws: “Seêland”
- “Sjælland”
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