April 7, 2019
List of Major Straits of the World
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Strait
- A strait is a naturally formed, narrow, typically navigable waterway that connects two larger bodies of water and lies between two land masses
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Straits of the World – east to west
Straits near West Pacific Ocean
Name
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Join Sea
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Location
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Cook Strait
|
South Pacific Ocean
|
New Zealand
|
Foveaux Strait
|
South Pacific Ocean
|
New Zealand
|
Torres Strait
|
Arafura Sea
Gulf of Papua
|
Papua New Guinea
Australia
|
Bass Strait
|
Tasman Sea
South Sea
|
Australia
|
Tatar Strait
|
Japan Sea
Okhotsk Sea
|
Russia
(Sakhalin Islands)
|
Tsungaru Strait
|
Japan Sea
Pacific Ocean
|
Japan
(Hokkaido-Honshu)
|
Formosa Strait
|
South China Sea
East China Sea
|
China-Taiwan
|
Makkassar Strait Â
|
Java Sea
Celebeze Sea
|
Indonesia
|
Sunda Strait
|
Java Sea
Indian Ocean
|
Indonesia
|
Strait of Malacca
|
Andaman Sea
South China Sea
|
Indonesia
Malaysia
|
Palk StraitÂ
|
Palk Bay
Bay of Bengal
|
Sri Lanka
|
Strait of Lombok
|
Java Sea
Indian Ocean
|
Indonesia
(Bali and Lombok)
|
Bali Strait
|
Bali Sea
Indian Ocean
|
Indonesia
(Java & Bali)
|
Kiungchow strait
|
Gulf of Tonkin
South China Sea
|
China
|
Luzon strait
|
Philippine Sea
South China Sea
|
Taiwan
Luzon island
|
Korea strait
|
East China Sea
Yellow Sea
|
South Korea
Japan
|
Tsushima strait
|
Sea of Japan
Yellow Sea
East China Sea
|
South Korea
Japan
|
Boris Vilkitsky Strai
|
Kara Sea
Laptev Seas
|
Severnaya Zemlya archipelago, Russia
|
Laptev strait
|
Laptev Sea
East Siberian Sea
|
Russia
|
Osumi strait
|
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|
Japan
|
Kii strait
|
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|
Japan
|
Nemuro strait
|
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|
Kuril Islands, Russia Hokkaido, Japan
|
Tsugaru Strait
|
Sea of JapanÂ
Pacific Ocean
|
(Honshu and Hokkaido)
Japan
|
Dampier strait
|
Bismarck Sea
Solomon Sea
|
Papua New Guinea
|
Balabac strait
|
South China Sea
Sulu Sea
|
Philippines
|
Hainan strait
|
Gulf of Tonkin
South China Sea
|
China
|
Straits of the World
Middle East Mediterranean Sea
Name
|
Join Sea
|
Location
|
Bab-el-Mandeb
|
Red Sea
Gulf of Aden
|
Yemen
Djibouti
|
Mozambique Strait
|
Indian Ocean
|
Mozambique
Malagasy
|
Strait of Hormuz
|
Gulf of Persia
Gulf of Oman
|
Oman
Iran
|
Suez Canal
(artificial)
|
Mediterranean Sea
Red Sea
|
Egypt
|
Strait of Kerch
|
Azov sea
Black sea
|
Crimea
|
Bosporous Strait
|
Black Sea
Marmara Sea
|
Turkey
|
Dardenleez Strait
|
Marmara Sea
Agean Sea
|
Turkey
|
Bonne-Facio Strait
|
Mediterranean Sea
|
Corsika
Sardinia
|
Messina Strait
|
Mediterranean Sea
|
Italy
Sicily
|
Otranto Strait
|
Adriatic Sea
Ionian Sea
|
Italy
Albania
|
North Channel
|
Irish Sea
Atlantic Ocean
|
Ireland
England
|
Dover strait
|
English Channel
North Sea
|
England
France
|
Gibraltar Strait
|
Mediterranean Sea
Atlantic Ocean
|
Spain (part of UK)
Morocco
|
Straits of the World
Atlantic & East Pacific Ocean
Name
|
Join Sea
|
Location
|
Denmark Strait
|
North Atlantic
Arctic Ocean
|
Greenland-Iceland
|
Davis Strait
|
Baffin Bay
Atlantic Ocean
|
Greenland
Canada
|
Yucatan Strait
|
Gulf of Mexico
Caribbean Sea
|
Mexico
Cuba
|
Florida Strait
|
Gulf of Mexico
Atlantic Ocean
|
USA
Cuba
|
Hudson strait
|
Gulf of Hudson
Atlantic Ocean
|
Canada
|
Magellan
|
Pacific Ocean
South Atlantic Ocean
|
Chile
|
Strait of Juan de Fuca
|
Salish Sea
Pacific Ocean
|
Canada
United States
|
Hecate strait
|
Pacific Ocean
|
Canada
|
McClure strait
|
Parry Channel
Baffin Bay
|
Canada
|
Belleisle strait
|
Gulf of Saint Lawrence
Atlantic Ocean
|
Labrador Peninsula
Newfoundland, Canada
|
Windward Passage
|
Caribbean Sea
|
Cuba
Hispaniola
|
Mona Passage
|
Atlantic Ocean Caribbean Sea
|
Hispaniola
Puerto Rico
|
Anegada passage
|
Atlantic Ocean Caribbean Sea
|
British Virgin Islands
Anguilla
|
Panama Canal
(artificial)
|
Atlantic OceanÂ
Pacific Ocean
|
Panama
|
Bering Strait
|
Bering Sea
Chuksi Sea
|
Alaska
Russia
|
Straits of the World