| English Channel | |
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| Location | Atlantic Ocean |
| Primary inflows | River Exe, River Seine, River Test, River Tamar, River Somme |
| Basin countries | United Kingdom France Guernsey Jersey |
| Max. length | 560 km (350 mi) |
| Max. width | 240 km (150 mi) |
| Surface area | 75,000 km2 (29,000 sq mi) |
| Average depth | 63 m (207 ft) |
| Max. depth | 174 m (571 ft) at Hurd's Deep |
| Salinity | 3.4–3.5% |
| Max temperature | 15 °C (59 °F) |
| Min temperature | 5 °C (41 °F) |
| Islands | Île de Bréhat, Île de Batz, Chausey, Tatihou, Îles Saint-Marcouf, Isle of Wight, Jersey, Guernsey, Alderney, Sark, Herm |
| Settlements | Bournemouth, Brighton, Plymouth, Portsmouth, Poole, Le Havre |
The English Channel (French: Manche, "Sleeve"; Breton: Mor Breizh, "Bretons Sea"; Cornish: Mor Bretannek, "British Sea"), also called simply the Channel, is the body of water that separates southern England from northern France, and joins the southern part of the North Sea to the Atlantic Ocean. The name "English Channel" is mostly used in English-speaking countries and on English language charts, even though only part of it belongs to United Kingdom territorial waters, the other part pertaining to French territorial waters.
It is about 560 km (350 mi) long and varies in width from 240 km (150 mi) at its widest to 33.1 km (20.6 mi) in the Strait of Dover.[1] It is the smallest of the shallow seas around the continental shelf of Europe, covering an area of some 75,000 km2 (29,000 sq mi).[2
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