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Polish:
Zalew SzczeciƄski
German:
Stettiner Haff or Oderhaff
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SzczeciƄski Lagoon SzczeciƄski Lagoon, northwestern Poland.

SzczeciƄski Lagoon

lagoon, Poland
Also known as: Oderhaff, Stettiner Haff, Szczecin Lagoon, Zalew SzczeciƄski(Show More)
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SzczeciƄski Lagoon, lagoon (area 350 square miles [900 square km]) on the Baltic Sea coast between Mecklenburg–West Pomerania Land (state), Germany, and Zachodniopomorskie województwo (province), Poland. An extension of the Oder River’s estuarine mouth, it is drained (via the ƚwina, Peene, and Dziwna rivers) into Pomeranian Bay and the Baltic Sea between Usedom and Wolin.

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