Langeland (i.e. 'long land'), a low, fertile Danish island, 33 miles long by 5 broad, situated at the southern entrance to the Great Belt, between Fünen and Laaland. Area, 106 sq. m.; pop. (1880) 19,900. Principal products—corn, flax, cattle, timber, fish. Chief town, Rudkjøbing (pop. 3179), on the west coast.
Langeland
Chambers's Encyclopaedia, Volume 6: Humber to Malta, p. 510
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