Naming and Geography
By closer view there are five straits named belt (Danish: Bælt), the only ones in the world and several straits named sound (Danish, Swedish and German: sund). Where an island is situated between a belt and a sound, typically the broader strait is called belt and the more narrow one is the sound:
- Als:
- separated from the continent by Alssund
- separated from Fyn the southern part of the Little Belt, an area referred to in German (but not Danish) as Alsenbelt
- Fehmarn
- separated from the Continent by Fehmarnsund, also Femersund
- separated from Lolland by Fehmarnbelt (German) / Femerbelt (Platt) / Femernbælt (former spelling: Femer Bælt)
- Langeland:
- separated from Tåsinge Island by Siø Sund (Tåsinge itself is separated from Fyn by Svendborg Sund)
- separated from Lolland by Langelandsbælt, the southern part of Great Belt
- Lolland:
- separated from Falster Island by Guldborgsund (Falster itself is separated from Zealand by Storstrømmen Strait)
- separated from Langeland by Langelandsbælt
- separated from Fehmarn by Femernbælt, which is the common continuation of Great Belt–Langelandsbælt and Little Belt
- Zealand (Danish: Sjælland)
- separated from Scandinavia Peninsula of the continent by Øresund (Danish) / Öresund (Swedish)
- separated from Fyn Island by the Great Belt
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