Chesapeake Bay
The Chesapeake Bay is one of the world's largest estuaries, with waters extending through the states of Maryland and Virginia out to the Atlantic Ocean. Thomas Point Lighthouse…Photo: Kevin Coles, CC BY 2.0.
Chesapeake Bay
- Type: Bay
- Description: estuary in the U.S. states of Maryland, Delaware, District of Columbia, and Virginia
- Categories: estuary and body of water
- Location: Mid-Atlantic, United States, North America
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
38.5168° or 38° 31' 0" northLongitude
-76.383° or 76° 22' 59" westOpen Location Code
87C5GJ88+PQOpenStreetMap ID
node 369003154OpenStreetMap Feature
natural=bayGeoNames ID
4351177Wikidata ID
Q216868Chesapeake Bay Satellite Map
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Also Known As
- Afrikaans: Chesapeake Bay
- Arabic: Bahia han Chesapeake
- Arabic: خليج تشسابيك
- Arabic: خليج تشيزبيك
- Arabic: خليج تشيسابيك
- Asturian: Ensenada de Chesapeake
- Azerbaijani: Çesapik körfəzi
- Bashkir: Чесапик ҡултығы
- Basque: Chesapeake badia
- Belarusian: Чэсапікскі заліў
- Breton: Bae Chesapeake
- Bulgarian: Чесапийк
- Bulgarian: Чизапик
- Catalan: Badia de Chesapeake
- Catalan: Chesapeake
- Catalan: Chesapeake Bay
- Catalan: badia de Chesapeake
- Cebuano: Chesapeake Bay
- Chinese: 乞沙比克灣
- Chinese: 切萨皮克湾
- Chinese: 契沙比克灣
- Chinese: 車薩比灣
- Czech: Chesapeake
- Czech: Chesapeake Bay
- Czech: Chesapeakeská zátoka
- Czech: Chesapeakská zátoka
- Czech: zátoka Chesapeake
- Danish: Chesapeake Bay
- Dutch: Chesapeake Bay
- Dutch: Chesapeakebaai
- Dutch: Chesapeake baai
- Esperanto: Golfo Chesapeake
- Esperanto: Ĉezapika Golfo
- Estonian: Chesapeake'i laht
- Finnish: Chesapeake Bay
- Finnish: Chesapeake Bayn kraateri
- Finnish: Chesapeake Bayn kraatteri
- Finnish: Chesapeaken lahden kraateri
- Finnish: Chesapeaken lahti
- Finnish: Chesapeakenlahti
- French: Baie de Cheasapeake
- French: Baie de Chesapeak
- French: Baie de Chesapeake
- French: Baie de la Cheasapeake
- French: Baie de la Chesapeake
- French: Chesapeake Bay
- French: baie de Chesapeake
- Georgian: ჩესაპიკის ყურე
- German: Chesapeake Bay
- Greek: Κόλπος του Τσέζαπικ
- Hebrew: מפרץ צ'סאפיק
- Hebrew: מפרץ צ'ספיק
- Hindi: चेसापीक खाड़ी
- Hungarian: Chesapeake-öböl
- Inari Sami: Chesapeakeluohtâ
- Indonesian: Teluk Chesapeake
- Italian: Chesapeake Bay
- Italian: baia di Chesapeake
- Japanese: チェサピーク湾
- Korean: 체사피크 만
- Korean: 체사피크 베이
- Korean: 체서피크만
- Korean: 체서피크 베이
- Latin: Sinus Chesapeacus
- Lingua Franca Nova: Baia Chesapeake
- Macedonian: Чесапик
- Mingrelian: ჩესაპიკიშ ჸუჯი
- Northern Frisian: Chesapeake Bay
- Northern Sami: Chesapeakeluokta
- Norwegian: Chesapeake Bay
- Norwegian Bokmål: Chesapeake Bay
- Occitan (post 1500): Baia de Chesapeake
- Old English (ca. 450-1100): Ceosapēac Byht
- Persian: خلیج عقبه
- Persian: خلیج چساپیک
- Piemontese: Chesapeake (ansen)
- Piemontese: Chesapeake
- Polish: Chesapeake
- Polish: Chesapeake Bay
- Polish: Zatoka Chesapeake
- Portuguese: Baía Chesapeake
- Portuguese: Baía de Chesapeake
- Portuguese: Chesapeake Bay
- Russian: Чесапикский залив
- Serbian: Залив Чесапик
- Serbo-Croatian: Chesapeake
- Skolt Sami: Chesapeakeluhtt
- Slovak: Chesapeacka zátoka
- Slovenian: Chesapeake Bay
- Slovenian: Chesapeaški zaliv
- Spanish: Bahía de Chesapeake
- Spanish: Chesapeake Bay
- Spanish: bahia Chesapeake
- Spanish: bahia de Chesapeake
- Spanish: bahía Chesapeake
- Spanish: bahía de Chesapeake
- Swahili: Hori la Chesapeake
- Swahili: Hori ya Chesapeake
- Swedish: Chesapeake Bay
- Thai: อ่าวเชซาพีก
- Turkish: Chesapeake Körfezi
- Ukrainian: Чесапікська затока
- Urdu: خلیج چیساپیک
- Venetian: Baja de Chesapeake
- Vietnamese: vịnh Chesapeake
- Waray (Philippines): Bahia han Chesapeake
- Waray (Philippines): Baybayon han Chesapeake
- Waray (Philippines): Chesapeake Bay
- Western Frisian: Chesapeake Bay
- Western Frisian: Chesapeakebaai
- Bahia De Madre De Dios
- Bahia De Santa Maria *
- Bahia De Santa Maria
- Bahia Del Jacan *
- Bahia de Madre de
- Baia di Chesapeake
- Bay of Chesapeack
- Bay of Chesapeacke
- Bay of Chesepian
- Bay of Chespiock
- Bay of Chisapeack
- Bay of the Chessepian
- Cheapeak Bay
- Chesapeac Bay
- Chesapeack Bay
- Chesapeake Baye
- Chesapsyocke Bay
- Cheseapeack Bay
- Cheseapeak Bay
- Chesepioc Bay
- Chesepiooc
- Chesopeak Bay
- Chesopeiack Bay
- Chesupioc Bay
- Chisapeask Bay
- The Bay of Checepiacke
- The Great Water
- Virginian Bay
- Vịnh Chesapeake
Other Places Named Chesapeake Bay
Localities in the Area
- Taylors IslandVillage
- Long BeachVillage
- Flag HarborHamlet
- Calvert BeachVillage
- Western Shore EstatesHamlet
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About Mapcarta. Thanks to Mapbox for providing amazing maps. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License. Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, excluding photos, directions and the map. Description text is based on the Wikivoyage page Chesapeake Bay. Photo: Wikimedia, CC0.