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Pamlico Sound

largest lagoon along the North American East Coast
Place bay Q2033236

Facts

11 properties
Instance of
bay
Country
United States[3]
Part of
North Atlantic Ocean[6]
Coordinate location
🗺️ 35.313°, -75.937°[8]
Drainage basin
Pamlico Sound drainage basin[12]
Inflows
Pamlico River, Neuse River[4][5]
Length
+130[10]
Located in the administrative territorial entity
North Carolina[2]
⚖ sources disagree Wikidata North Carolina GNIS (USGS) Hyde County edition 2026-09-26 · us-gov-usgs-pd ↗
Mouth of the watercourse
Atlantic Ocean[7]
Native label
Pamlico Sound[9]
Width
+32[11]
🏷️ Also known as
en Pamlico Sound fr baie de Pamlico he לגונת פמליקו he מצר פאמליקו he מצר פמליקו he פאמליקו סאונד he פמליקו סאונד ja パムリコ湾 pt Baía de Pamlico ru Памлико ru Памлико (залив) ru Памлико-Саунд zh 帕姆利科峽灣 zh 帕姆利科灣
🔖 Identifiers · 12
VIAF cluster ID
315527364
Library of Congress authority ID
sh90003204
GND ID
4840965-0
Image (Wikimedia Commons)
Pamlico Sound from Buxton sunset.jpg ↗
Encyclopædia Britannica Online ID
place/Pamlico-Sound, place/Pamlico-Sea
Freebase ID
/m/01th56
GNIS Feature ID
1023621
GeoNames ID
4483906
National Library of Israel J9U ID
987007530024405171
OpenStreetMap relation ID
11190230
Who's on First ID
404529217
Yale LUX ID
place/170ea984-8236-4c44-a120-56bf5502c67f

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Elevation above sea levelP2044
0 m 2026-09-26 H/BAY · US GeoNames (CC BY 4.0) as of 2026-09-26
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Source
GeoNames
Edition
20260926 · as of 2026-09-26
Licence
CC BY 4.0
Credit
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Bronze
1da92a6323a5fec3… admin1CodesASCII.txt +9 files
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🔗 Connections
Inflows 2
Neuse River, Pamlico River
← Located in or next to body of water 2
Ocracoke Island, Ocracoke Light
← Mouth of the watercourse 2
Neuse River, Pamlico River
Country 1
United States
Instance of 1
bay
Located in the administrative territorial entity 1
North Carolina
Mouth of the watercourse 1
Atlantic Ocean
Part of 1
North Atlantic Ocean
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Summary

Pamlico Sound is a bay[1].

Related Entities

North Carolina United States

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  2. [2] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  3. [4] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  4. [5] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  5. [6] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  6. [7] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  7. [8] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  8. [9] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  9. [10] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  10. [11] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  11. [12] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

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  1. 8w ago · IdeasMagnet · 2026-09-05 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    OpenStreetMap relation ID → 11190230
    Located in → —
    Part of → —
    Category for the water basin → Wikidata item
    + 14 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:2||1 */ OpenStreetMap relation ID: 11190230, Adding OSM relation id claim from wikidata tag on relation/11190230 in United States"
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