Vistula Spit
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peninsular stretch of land in the Baltic Sea on the border between Russia and Poland
Key facts
- Location
- Pomeranian Voivodeship , Poland , Kaliningrad Oblast , Russia
- Offshore water bodies
- Gdańsk Bay , Vistula Lagoon
- Length
- 70 km (43 mi)
- Largest town
- Krynica Morska
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- spit
- Country
- Soviet Union
- Located in
- Kąty Rybackie
- Elevation
- 1
- Body of water
- Gdańsk Bay
- Image
- Vistula Lagoon.jpg
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- Commons category
- Vistula Peninsula
- native label
- Frische Nehrung
- P8168
- Ayuka Khan
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Encyclopedic overview
The Vistula Spit is an aeolian sand spit, or peninsular stretch of land, separating Vistula Lagoon from Gdańsk Bay, in the Baltic Sea, with its tip separated from the mainland by the Strait of Baltiysk. The border between Poland (Pomeranian Voivodeship) and Kaliningrad Oblast, an exclave of Russia, bisects it, politically dividing the spit into two pieces between the two countries. The westernmost geographical point of Russia is located on the Vistula Spit. The Polish part contains a number of tourist resorts, incorporated administratively as the town of Krynica Morska.
Geography
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Vistula Spit” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.