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Vistula Lagoon
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brackish water lagoon on the Baltic Sea, on the Polish border with Russia
Key facts
- Location
- Poland , Russia
- Type
- Lagoon
- Etymology
- Vistula River
- Primary inflows
- Bauda, Elbląg , Nogat , Pasłęka , Szkarpawa , Pregolya , Prokhladnaya , Wisła Królewiecka
- Max length
- 90.7 km (56.4 mi)
- Max width
- 13 km (8.1 mi)
- Surface area
- 838 km (324 sq mi)
- Average depth
- 2.7 m (8 ft 10 in)
- Salinity
- 3‰
- Settlements
- Tolkmicko , Frombork , Krynica Morska , Baltiysk , Primorsk
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- tourist attraction
- Part of
- Baltic Sea
- Named after
- Vistula
- Country
- Soviet Union
- Image
- Vistula Lagoon.jpg
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- Commons category
- Vistula Lagoon
- described by source
- Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition
- vertical depth
- 5
Sources (2)
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Encyclopedic overview
The Vistula Lagoon is a brackish water lagoon on the Baltic Sea roughly 90 kilometres (56 mi) long, 10 to 24 kilometres (6 to 15 mi) wide, and up to 5 metres (17 ft) deep, separated from the Gdańsk Bay by the Vistula Spit. It is split between Poland and Russia (Kaliningrad exclave).
Geography
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Vistula Lagoon” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.