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Baltic Sea
MyWikiBiz, Author Your Legacy — Wednesday January 07, 2009
Baltic Sea, enclosed sea, northern Europe, bounded by Sweden, Finland, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Russia, Poland, and Germany. It is connected with the North Sea by a series of winding channels: the Öresund (Øresund), Storebælt (Great Belt), Lillebælt, Kattegat, and Skagerrak. From the peninsula of Denmark, considered the Baltic's limit, the sea extends east to longitude 30° East and north to about latitude 66° North. The greatest length of the Baltic, from Lübeck, Germany, to Haparanda, Sweden, is about 1500 km (about 930 mi); the breadth varies from 685 km (425 mi), between Stockholm and Saint Petersburg, to less than 80 km (50 mi) at the southern extremity. The Baltic covers an area of about 414,400 sq km (about 160,000 sq mi).
