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Major Straits of the World that Connect & Separate

Major Straits of the World (Connects)

S.	Name	Connects	Location
1.	Malacca Strait	Andaman Sea & South China Sea	Indonesia-Malaysia
2.	Palk Strait	Bay of Mannar & Bay of Bengal	India-Sri Lanka
3.	Sunda Strait	Java Sea & Indian Ocean	Indonesia
4.	Yucatan Strait	Gulf of Mexico and Caribbean Sea	Mexico-Cuba
5.	Messina Strait	Mediterranean Sea	Italy-Sicily
6.	Otranto Strait	Adriatic Sea & Ionian Sea	Italy-Albania
7.	Bab-el-Mandeb Strait	Red Sea & Gulf of Aden (Arabian Sea)	Yemen-Djibouti
8.	Cook Strait	S. Pacific Ocean (Tasman Sea)	New Zealand (North & South Island)
9.	Mozambique Channel	Indian Ocean	Mozambique-Madagascar
10.	North Channel	Irish Sea & Atlantic Ocean	Ireland-England
11.	Taurus Strait	Arafura Sea & Gulf of Papua	Papua New Guinea-Australia
12.	Bass Strait	Tasman Sea & South Sea	Australia
13.	Bering Strait	Bering Sea & Chukchi Sea	Alaska-Russia
14.	Bonne-Fasio Strait	Mediterranean Sea	Corsica-Sardinia
15.	Bosporus Strait	Black Sea & Marmara Sea	Turkey
16.	Dardanelles Strait	Marmara Sea and Aegean Sea	Turkey
17.	Davis Strait	Baffin Bay & Atlantic Ocean	Greenland - Canada
18.	Denmark Strait	N. Atlantic & Arctic Ocean	Greenland-Iceland
19.	Dover Strait	English Channel & North Sea	England-France
20.	Florida Strait	Gulf of Mexico and Atlantic Ocean	USA-Cuba
21	Hormuz Strait	Gulf of Persia & Gulf of Oman	Oman-Iran
22.	Hudson Strait	Gulf of Hudson & Atlantic Ocean	Canada
23.	Gibraltar Strait	Mediterranean Sea & Atlantic Ocean	Spain-Morocco
24.	Magellan Strait	Pacific ocean and South Atlantic Ocean	Chile
25.	Makassar Strait Tsungaru Strait	Java Sea and Celebes Sea	Indonesia
26.	Tsugaru Strait	Japan Sea & Pacific Ocean	Japan (Hokkaido-Honshu Island)
27.	Tatar Strait	Japan Sea & Okhotsk Sea	Russia (Between Sakhalin Island and Asian mainland)
28.	Foveaux Strait	S. Pacific Ocean (Tasman Sea & Java Sea)	New Zealand (between S. Island- Stewart Island)
29.	Formosa Strait	S. China Sea & E. China Sea	China-Taiwan
30.	Luzon	Philippine Sea to the South China Sea in the western Pacific Ocean	Taiwan and Luzon island of the Philippines
31.	Korea	East China Sea, the Yellow Sea and the Sea of Japan in the northwest Pacific Ocean	South Korea and Japan
32.	Tokra	East China Sea to Pacific Ocean	Japan
33.	Belle Isle	separates the Labrador Peninsula from the island of Newfoundland	Canada
34.	Karimata	South China Sea to the Java Sea	Separates the Indonesian islands of Sumatra and Borneo
35.	Tsushima	Japan Sea, Yellow and East China Sea	Korea and Japan

Major Straits of the World (Separates)

Strait	Separates	Ocean/Sea
Bering	Russia and the United States	Atlantic Ocean to with the Bering Sea
Gibraltar	Gibraltar and Peninsular Spain in Europe from Morocco in Africa.	Atlantic Ocean to the Mediterranean Sea
Dover	Great Britain (England) from continental Europe (France)	North Sea-English Channel (Atlantic Ocean)
Malacca	Malay Peninsula and the Indonesian island of Sumatra	Indian Ocean (Bay of Bengal) and the Pacific Ocean (Java Sea)
Florida	Florida Keys and Cuba	Gulf of Mexico and the Atlantic Ocean
Palk	India and Sri Lanka	Bay of Bengal and Arabian Sea

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