Key facts
- Location
- Lithuania , Russia
- Type
- Lagoon
- Primary inflows
- Neman
- Max length
- 98 km (61 mi)
- Max width
- 46 km (29 mi)
- Surface area
- 1,619 km (625 sq mi)
- Average depth
- 3.8 m (12 ft)
- Max depth
- 5.8 m (19 ft)
via Wikipedia infobox
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Encyclopedic overview
The Curonian Lagoon (or Bay, Gulf; Lithuanian: Kuršių marios, German: Kurisches Haff, Prussian: Kursjanmari, Russian: Куршский залив) is a freshwater lagoon separated from the Baltic Sea by the Curonian Spit. Its surface area is 1,619 square kilometers (625 sq mi). The Neman River (Lithuanian: Nemunas) supplies about 90% of its inflows; its watershed consists of about 100,450 square kilometres in Lithuania and Russia's Kaliningrad Oblast.
Human history
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Curonian Lagoon” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.