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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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