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- Major Straits Of The World That (Connect & Separate)
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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 Carribean Sea |
Mexico-Cuba |
|
5 |
Mesina 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 (N & S 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 & Chuksi Sea |
Alaska-Russia |
|
14 |
Bonne-Fasio Strait |
Mediterranean Sea |
Corsika-Sardinia |
|
15 |
Bosporous Strait |
Black Sea & Marmara Sea |
Turkey |
|
16 |
Dardenleez Strait |
Marmara Sea and Agean 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 S. Atlantic Ocean |
Chile |
|
25 |
Makkassar Strait Tsungaru Strait |
Java Sea and Celebes Sea |
Indonesia |
|
26 |
Tsungaru 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- Stewari 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 New foundland |
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 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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