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Denmark (Zealand) seen from the Swedish (Scania) side of Øresund Øresund Bridge from the air in September 2015. Øresund or Öresund (UK: / ˌ ɜːr ə ˈ s ʊ n d /, US: / ˈ ɜːr ə s ʌ n,-s ʊ n d, ˈ ɔːr ə s ʊ n d /; [1] [2] [3] Danish: Øresund [ˈøːɐˌsɔnˀ]; Swedish: Öresund [œːrɛˈsɵnːd]), [4] commonly known in English as the Sound, [5] is a strait which forms the ...
The Danish straits are the straits connecting the Baltic Sea to the North Sea through the Kattegat and Skagerrak. Historically, the Danish straits were internal waterways of Denmark ; however, following territorial losses, Øresund and Fehmarn Belt are now shared with Sweden and Germany , while the Great Belt and the Little Belt have remained ...
The Øresund or Öresund Bridge [6] is a combined railway and motorway cable-stayed bridge across the Øresund strait between Denmark and Sweden.It is the second longest bridge in Europe with both roadway and railway combined in a single structure, running nearly 8 kilometres (5 miles) from the Swedish coast to the artificial island Peberholm in the middle of the strait.
Centred around the Øresund strait and the two cities which lie on either side, Copenhagen in Denmark and Malmö in Sweden, the region is connected by the Øresund Bridge, which spans the strait at its southern end, and the HH Ferry route between Helsingør, Denmark, and Helsingborg, Sweden, at the narrowest point of the strait.
Map of the Danish coast line to the west, and the Swedish coast line to the east. From 1888. The Sound Dues (or Sound Tolls; Danish: Øresundstolden) were a toll on the use of the Øresund, or "Sound" strait separating the modern day borders of Denmark and Sweden.
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The Øresund Line on the Øresund Bridge. The Øresund Line (Swedish: Öresundsbanan, Danish: Øresundbanen) is a railway between Copenhagen in Denmark and Malmö in Sweden via the Øresund Bridge.