Sea

North Sea

In medieval European writing the "Seven Seas" meant the North Sea, the Baltic, the Atlantic, the Mediterranean, the Black, the Red and the Arabian.

Source: oceanservice.noaa.gov

Where it is

On the Atlas Quest map, the North Sea label sits at 56.4° N, 2.8° E, in the Northern and Eastern Hemispheres.

Coordinates, names: Natural Earth, public domain.

Nearby places

The closest other places with pages here, measured between map label points:

• Baltic Sea — about 1,000 km east
• Europe — about 2,300 km east
• Black Sea — about 2,500 km south-east
• Greenland — about 2,700 km north-west

Play with it

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