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Øresund, Swedish: Öresund, and more commonly known in English as the Sound ((デンマーク語:Øresund), ; (スウェーデン語:Öresund), ) and locally in both countries simply ''Sundet'', is the strait that separates the Danish island Zealand from the southern Swedish province of Scania. Its width is at the narrowest point between Kronborg Castle at Helsingør in Denmark, and the northern harbour of Helsingborg in Scania. The strait also lends its name to the Øresund Region of 3.8 million inhabitants on both the Danish and Swedish sides. The population which lives no more than 30 km from the shores of Øresund comprises 2.9 million people, within an area of 6,000 square kilometres: the area which includes the four Danish provinces (Danish: ''Landsdel'')—''Byen København, København omegn, Nordsjælland and Østsjælland''—together with the 17 (out of 33 possible) Scanian municipalities which either are located by the Øresund, or which border to a such municipality.〔Danish side province areas - http://www.dst.dk/da/Statistik/emner/areal/areal-for-kommuner-og-regioner.aspx - these four provinces have a total area of 2.769 km2; Danish side population - below a population pyramide at - http://www.dst.dk/da/Statistik/emner/befolkning-og-befolkningsfremskrivning/folketal.aspx - 4th quarter 2014 (1 October 2014), was the aggregated population 1.967.934. The area equals Danish region Hovedstaden without the remote Baltic island Bornholm but including the cities south-western suburbs (Østsjælland). For the area and population of the Swedish side, 17 municipalities which are either located by the Øresund or border a municipality which does, please see Scania#Population, there is a thorough table based at Swedish statistic bureau SCB figures of areas and population. At 3,201 km² live 925,982 people. Conclusion: around both sides of Øresund, in an area of 5,970 km², live 2,893,916 people, by far the largest metropolitan area in Scandinavia. Although the area has no political functions (which it shares with the larger Øresund Region), the figure illustrates the high population density around Øresund, and does so in a better way than what Øresund Region does〕 The wider Øresund Region covers all of Denmark east of the Great Belt and all of Scania, together an area of more than , and does not have the very high population density of those areas proximate to the sea. Øresund is one of the three Danish Straits that connect the Baltic Sea to the Atlantic Ocean via Kattegat, Skagerrak, and the North Sea, and is one of the busiest waterways in the world. The Øresund Bridge (which includes a 3 km tunnel) between the Danish capital Copenhagen and the largest city of Scania, Malmö, was inaugurated on 1 July 2000 by Queen Margrethe II of Denmark and King Carl XVI Gustaf of Sweden. However the HH Ferry route, between Helsingør, Zealand, Denmark and Helsingborg, Scania, Sweden, in the northern part of Øresund, where it is narrowest, remains one of the world's busiest international ferry routes with more than 70 departures from each harbour per day.〔at http://www.scandlines.se/tider-och-priser/tidtabell.aspx press "Tidtabell 2 jan-31 maj 2015", PDF file.〕 ==Etymology== It is first attested on a Danish runestone from about 950, where it is written ''ura suti'', i.e. ''Ø̄rasundi'' (in the dative case).〔Danmarks runeindskrifter no. 117.〕 The West Norse and Icelandic form is ''Eyrarsund''. The first part of the word is ''øre'' (Old Norse ''eyra'') "ear", and the second part is ''sund'', i.e. strait or narrow seaway. The Øresund is so called because ''øre'' "ear" is a term for a small piece of land between two waters, and the Øresund stretches between two such "ears", from ''Siellands Øre'' to ''Skan-Øre''.〔''(Ordbog over det danske Sprog ) "et smalt stykke land imellem to store vande, fra et land til andet. () Øresund kaldes saaledes fordi det begynder ved Siellands Øre og ved Øster-Søen ved et Øre, som er Skan-Øre. "〕 The strait is today called ''Øresund'' in Danish and ''Öresund'' in Swedish, informally ''Sundet'' (lit. "the Strait") in both languages. According to linguist Ole Lauridsen in the Danish radio program Sproghjørnet the first part "øre" comes from an antiquated term for a beach consisting of gravel and pebbles. Compare with the Danish city name Korsør, where the coast does not form an "ear". The "ear" interpretation is a later rationale to explain the name.〔() Radio clip in Danish discussing the origin of the name Øresund.〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Øresund」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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