North Sea

The North Sea lies between Great Britain, Denmark, Norway, Germany, the Netherlands, Belgium, and France. A sea on the European continental shelf, it connects to the Atlantic Ocean through... Wikipedia

  • Location:  Western Europe and Northern Europe
  • Type:  Sea
  • Primary inflows:  Baltic Sea, Elbe, Weser, Ems, Rhine/Waal, Meuse, Scheldt, Spey, Don, Dee, Tay, Forth, Tyne, Wear, Tees, Humber, Thames
  • Basin countries:  United Kingdom (specifically England and Scotland), Norway, Denmark, Germany (specifically Lower Saxony and Schleswig-Holstein), the Netherlands, Belgium, Luxembourg, France, Switzerland, Italy, Liechtenstein, Austria, Czech Republic
  • Salinity:  3.4 to 3.5%
  • Max. temperature:  18 °C (64.4 °F)
  • Min. temperature:  6 °C (42.8 °F)
  • References:  Seatemperature.org and Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences
  • Data source:  DuckDuckGo