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Key facts
- Coordinates
- 55°19′59″N 11°00′00″E / 55.333°N 11.000°E / 55.333; 11.000
- Type
- strait
- Basin countries
- Denmark
- Max length
- 60 km (37 mi)
- Max width
- 32 km (20 mi)
- Min width
- 16 km (10 mi)
- Max depth
- 60 m (197 ft)
- Islands
- Samsø in the north and Langeland to the south
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- strait
- Country
- Denmark
- Shares border with
- Baltic Sea
- Image
- Storebælt-Brücke3.JPG
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- Commons category
- Storebælt
- vertical depth
- 58
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Encyclopedic overview
The Great Belt (Danish: Storebælt, pronounced [ˈstoːɐˌpelˀt]) is a strait between the major islands of Zealand (Sjælland) and Funen (Fyn) in Denmark. It is one of the three Danish Straits.
Effectively dividing Denmark in two, the Belt was served by the Great Belt ferries from the late 19th century until the islands were connected by the Great Belt Fixed Link in 1997–98.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Great Belt” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.