Baltic Coast of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern

Länder: Schleswig-Holstein, Mecklenburg-West Pomerania

The Baltic coastline of Germany extends for some 720km/450mi from Flensburg to the island of Usedom. Bights and fjord-like inlets penetrate far inland - the Flensburger Förde, the Schlei, Eckernförde Bay, the Kieler Förde, Lübeck Bay, Wismar Bay, the Saaler Bodden, the Greifswalder Bodden, the Stettiner Haff. The islands of Fehmarn, Rügen and Usedom are linked with the mainland by bridges.

Ecology

The Baltic is linked with the North Sea only by the Skagerrak and Kattegat, so that there is little exchange of waters between the two seas. The fresh water flowing into the Baltic from the mainland gives it a considerably lower salt content than other seas. The inflow