Lim Fjord

Lim Fjord

Lim Fjord can be the name of two different geographical features:

* The Limfjord in Denmark, since 1825 part of a channel separating the island of Vendsyssel-Thy from the rest of Jutland.
* The Lim fjord in Croatia, an estuary on the western coast of Istria which is not a real fjord but a ria.


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