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Curonian Spit
UNESCO World Heritage Site
The Valley of Death looking from the Parnidis Dune in Neringa Municipality, Lithuania in October 2022.
LocationKlaipėda County, Lithuania Zelenogradsky District, Kaliningrad Oblast, Russia
CriteriaCultural: v
Reference994
Inscription2000 (24th Session)
Area33,021 ha
Coordinates55°16′28″N 20°58′15″E / 55.27444°N 20.97083°E / 55.27444; 20.97083
Curonian Spit is located in Baltic Sea
Curonian Spit
Location of the Curonian Spit on the Baltic Sea coast of Northern Europe
Curonian Spit is located in Kaliningrad Oblast
Curonian Spit
Curonian Spit (Kaliningrad Oblast)
Curonian Spit is located in Lithuania
Curonian Spit
Curonian Spit (Lithuania)

The Curonian (Courish) Spit (Lithuanian: Kuršių nerija; Russian: Ку́ршская коса́; German: Kurische Nehrung; Latvian: Kuršu kāpas) is a 98-kilometre (61 mi) long, thin, curved sand-dune spit that separates the Curonian Lagoon from the Baltic Sea. It is a UNESCO World Heritage Site shared by Lithuania and Russia. Its southern portion lies within Kaliningrad Oblast of Russia, and its northern within southwestern Klaipėda County of Lithuania.

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Curonian Spit

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The Curonian (Courish) Spit (Lithuanian: Kuršių nerija; Russian: Ку́ршская коса́; German: Kurische Nehrung; Latvian: Kuršu kāpas) is a 98-kilometre (61 mi)...

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Curonian Lagoon

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Kurisches Haff) is a freshwater lagoon separated from the Baltic Sea by the Curonian Spit. Its surface area is 1,619 square kilometers (625 sq mi). The Neman...

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Curonian Spit National Park

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Curonian Spit National Park might refer to one of the national parks on the Curonian Spit: Curonian Spit National Park (Lithuania) in the north Curonian...

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Kursenieki language

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is a dialect of the Latvian language spoken by the Kursenieki of the Curonian Spit, a thin strip of land stretching between southwestern Lithuania and...

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Kursenieki

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German: Kuren – 'Curonians', Lithuanian: kuršininkai, kuršiai) are a nearly extinct Baltic ethnic group living along the Curonian Spit. "Kuršiai" refers...

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Curonian

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Latin for Courland Curonian Lagoon Curonian Spit / Courish Spit This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title Curonian. If an internal...

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Vistula Spit

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extinct Baltic ethnic group once made Vistula Spit, coastal zone of the Sambia Peninsula, and the Curonian Spit their home. In 1649 the Kuršininkai zone of...

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Dancing Forest

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Танцующий лес, romanized: Tantsuyushchiy les) is a pine forest on the Curonian Spit in Kaliningrad Oblast, Russia noted for its unusually twisted trees...

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Lithuania

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and 57° N, and mostly between longitudes 21° and 27° E (part of the Curonian Spit lies west of 21°). It has around 99 kilometres (61.5 mi) of sandy coastline...

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Wildlife of Russia

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Volcanoes of Kamchatka, the Altai Mountains, the Western Caucasus, the Curonian Spit (the Kurshskaya Kosa National Park), the Central Sikhote-Alin, Uvs Lake...

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Neringa Municipality

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County in westernmost Lithuania, comprising several villages in the Curonian Spit. In terms of population, it is the smallest municipality of the country...

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Parnidis Dune

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(semi-permanent) coastal sand dune on the Curonian Spit, southeast of Nida, Lithuania, near the Lithuania-Russia border of the spit. It is almost entirely bare and...

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Sambia Peninsula

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Kuršininkai are a nearly extinct Baltic ethnic group living along the Curonian Spit, in 1649 Kuršininkai settlement spanned from Memel (Klaipėda) to Gdańsk...

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Curonian weathervane

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signs marked individual villages of Curonian Spit. Black and white weathervanes marked villages of the Curonian Spit, red and white weathervanes marked...

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List of World Heritage Sites in Lithuania

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Vilnius Curonian Spit Kernavė Kaunas Struve Geodetic Arc The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) designates World...

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Regions of Europe

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Faroe Islands British Isles English Channel Channel Islands Livonia Curonian Spit Nemunas Delta Cap of the North East Danubian countries Prussia Galicia...

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List of peninsulas

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Peninsula Valletta Senglea Birgu Sliema Ta' Xbiex Marsaskala Fort Ricasoli Curonian Spit, Kaliningrad Oblast (shared with Lithuania) Gusinaya Zemlya Kanin Peninsula...

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List of World Heritage Sites in Russia

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Baltic states

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Kaunas View from the Bilioniai forthill in Lithuania Sand dunes of the Curonian Spit, near Nida, which are the highest drifting sand dunes in Europe (UNESCO...

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Macaronesia

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North Caucasus

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