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Columbia Encyclopedia
IJ or Y, inlet of the IJsselmeer, North Holland prov., NW Netherlands, on which Amsterdam is located. It receives the Amstel River and is connected by canals with the North Sea and with the Lek and Waal rivers.
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The letter combination IJ is:
- the ligature of the letters I and J. In Dutch it usually represents the diphthong [eɪ] or [ɛɪ], and is sometimes considered be to be a single letter: see IJ (digraph).
When used to represent this digraph, IJ can stand for:
- IJ (bay), a body of water near Amsterdam, Netherlands
- several smaller streams in the Netherlands.
- in genetics, the Y-DNA Haplogroup IJ
As an abbreviation, IJ can stand for:
As a code, IJ can be:
- Great Wall Airlines IATA code
- İj River, a Tatar spelling for the Izh River
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