Matches in DBpedia 2015-10 for { ?s ?p "Øresund, also spelled Öresund, and more commonly known in English as the Sound (Danish: Øresund, pronounced [ˈøːɐsɔnˀ]; Swedish: Öresund, pronounced [œrəˈsɵnːd]) and locally in both countries simply Sundet, is the strait that separates the Danish island Zealand from the southern Swedish province of Scania. Its width is 4 kilometres (2.5 mi) at the narrowest point between Kronborg Castle at Helsingør in Denmark, and the northern harbour of Helsingborg in Scania. The strait also lends its name to the Øresund Region of 3.8 million inhabitants on both the Danish and Swedish sides. The population which lives no more than 30 km from the shores of Øresund comprises 2.9 million people, within an area of 6,000 square kilometres: the area which includes the four Danish provinces (Danish: Landsdel)—Byen København, København omegn, Nordsjælland and Østsjælland—together with the 17 (out of 33 possible) Scanian municipalities which either are located by the Øresund, or which border to a such municipality. The wider Øresund Region covers all of Denmark east of the Great Belt and all of Scania, together an area of more than 20,000 square kilometres (7,700 sq mi), and does not have the very high population density of those areas proximate to the sea.Øresund is one of the three Danish Straits that connect the Baltic Sea to the Atlantic Ocean via Kattegat, Skagerrak, and the North Sea, and is one of the busiest waterways in the world. The Øresund Bridge (which includes a 3 km tunnel) between the Danish capital Copenhagen and the largest city of Scania, Malmö, was inaugurated on 1 July 2000 by Queen Margrethe II of Denmark and King Carl XVI Gustaf of Sweden. However the HH Ferry route, between Helsingør, Zealand, Denmark and Helsingborg, Scania, Sweden, in the northern part of Øresund, where it is narrowest, remains one of the world's busiest international ferry routes with more than 70 departures from each harbour per day."@en }
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- Øresund abstract "Øresund, also spelled Öresund, and more commonly known in English as the Sound (Danish: Øresund, pronounced [ˈøːɐsɔnˀ]; Swedish: Öresund, pronounced [œrəˈsɵnːd]) and locally in both countries simply Sundet, is the strait that separates the Danish island Zealand from the southern Swedish province of Scania. Its width is 4 kilometres (2.5 mi) at the narrowest point between Kronborg Castle at Helsingør in Denmark, and the northern harbour of Helsingborg in Scania. The strait also lends its name to the Øresund Region of 3.8 million inhabitants on both the Danish and Swedish sides. The population which lives no more than 30 km from the shores of Øresund comprises 2.9 million people, within an area of 6,000 square kilometres: the area which includes the four Danish provinces (Danish: Landsdel)—Byen København, København omegn, Nordsjælland and Østsjælland—together with the 17 (out of 33 possible) Scanian municipalities which either are located by the Øresund, or which border to a such municipality. The wider Øresund Region covers all of Denmark east of the Great Belt and all of Scania, together an area of more than 20,000 square kilometres (7,700 sq mi), and does not have the very high population density of those areas proximate to the sea.Øresund is one of the three Danish Straits that connect the Baltic Sea to the Atlantic Ocean via Kattegat, Skagerrak, and the North Sea, and is one of the busiest waterways in the world. The Øresund Bridge (which includes a 3 km tunnel) between the Danish capital Copenhagen and the largest city of Scania, Malmö, was inaugurated on 1 July 2000 by Queen Margrethe II of Denmark and King Carl XVI Gustaf of Sweden. However the HH Ferry route, between Helsingør, Zealand, Denmark and Helsingborg, Scania, Sweden, in the northern part of Øresund, where it is narrowest, remains one of the world's busiest international ferry routes with more than 70 departures from each harbour per day.".