Curonian Spit

Curonian Spit
UNESCO World Heritage Site
	The Valley of Death looking from the Parnidis Dune in Neringa Municipality, Lithuania in October 2022.
Location	Klaipėda County, Lithuania Zelenogradsky District, Kaliningrad Oblast, Russia
Criteria	Cultural: v
Reference	994
Inscription	2000 (24th Session)
Area	33,021 ha
Coordinates	55°16′28″N 20°58′15″E / 55.27444°N 20.97083°E
	Location of the Curonian Spit on the Baltic Sea coast of Northern Europe Curonian Spit (Kaliningrad Oblast) Curonian Spit (Lithuania)

The Curonian (Courish) Spit (Lithuanian: Kuršių nerija; Russian: Ку́ршская коса́; German: Kurische Nehrung; Latvian: Kuršu kāpas) is a 98-kilometre (61 mi) long, thin, curved sand-dune spit that separates the Curonian Lagoon from the Baltic Sea. It is a UNESCO World Heritage Site shared by Lithuania and Russia. Its southern portion lies within Kaliningrad Oblast of Russia, and its northern within southwestern Klaipėda County of Lithuania.