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This List of straits is an appendix to the article strait
Strait

A strait or straits is a narrow, navigable channel of water that connects two larger navigable bodies of water. It most commonly refers to a channel of water that lies between two land masses, but it may also refer to a navigable channel through a body of water that is otherwise not navigable, for example because it is too shallow, or...
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This List of straits is an appendix to the article strait
Strait

A strait or straits is a narrow, navigable channel of water that connects two larger navigable bodies of water. It most commonly refers to a channel of water that lies between two land masses, but it may also refer to a navigable channel through a body of water that is otherwise not navigable, for example because it is too shallow, or...
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  • Agate Pass
    Agate Pass

    Agate Pass or Agate Passage is a high-current tidal strait in Puget Sound connecting Port Madison and Port Orchard. It lies between Bainbridge Island, Washington and the mainland of the Kitsap Peninsula near Suquamish, Washington....
     - Puget Sound
    Puget Sound

    Puget Sound is an inland marine complex of waterways from the Pacific Ocean, connected to the rest of the Pacific by the Strait of Juan de Fuca, in the Pacific Northwest of the United States....
  • Agattu Strait - Aleutians
  • Akashi Strait - Japan
    Japan

    Japan is an island country in East Asia. Located in the Pacific Ocean, it lies to the east of the Sea of Japan, People's Republic of China, North Korea, South Korea and Russia, stretching from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north to the East China Sea and Taiwan in the south....
  • Amchitka Pass
    Amchitka Pass

    Amchitka Pass is a strait in Alaska, United States. It is located in the Aleutian Islands, between the Rat Islands group to the west and the Andreanof Islands to the east, at ....
     - Aleutians
  • Anegada Passage
    Anegada Passage

    Anegada Passage is a strait in the Caribbean, at . It separates the British Virgin Islands and Sombrero, Anguilla of Anguilla....
     - Virgin Islands
    Virgin Islands

    The Virgin Islands are an archipelago, part of the Leeward Islands in the Caribbean Sea. The Leeward Islands are the northern islands of the Lesser Antilles, where the Caribbean Sea meets the western Atlantic Ocean....
     and Anguilla
    Anguilla

    Anguilla is a British overseas territories in the Caribbean, one of the most northerly of the Leeward Islands in the Lesser Antilles. It consists of the main island of Anguilla itself, approximately 26 km long by 5 km wide at its widest point, together with a number of much smaller islands and cays with no permanent population....
  • Arthur Kill
    Arthur Kill

    The Arthur Kill is a tide strait separating Staten Island, New York from mainland New Jersey, United States. Throughout history, it has also been known as Staten Island Sound....
     - Staten Island
    Staten Island

    Staten Island is a borough of New York City, situated almost entirely on the island of the same name in the extreme southwest part of the city....
     and New Jersey
    New Jersey

    New Jersey is a state in the Mid-Atlantic States and Northeastern United States regions of the United States. It is bordered on the north by New York, on the east by the Hudson River and the Atlantic Ocean, on the southwest by Delaware, and on the west by Pennsylvania....


B

  • Bab-el-Mandeb
    Bab-el-Mandeb

    The Bab-el-Mandeb meaning "Gate of Tears" in Arabic language , is a strait located between Geography of Yemen on the Arabian Peninsula and Djibouti, north of Geography of Somalia in the Horn of Africa, and connecting the Red Sea to the Gulf of Aden....
     - connects Red Sea
    Red Sea

    The Red Sea is a salt water inlet of the Indian Ocean between Africa and Asia. The connection to the ocean is in the south through the Bab el Mandeb sound and the Gulf of Aden....
     to Gulf of Aden / Arabian Sea
  • Balabac Strait
    Balabac Strait

    Balabac Strait is a strait in the South China Sea, at . It separates the Balabac island , Philippines from the islands north of Borneo that are a part of Malaysia's Sabah state....
     - between Palawan
    Palawan

    Palawan is an island province of the Philippines located in the MIMAROPA Regions of the Philippines. Its capital is Puerto Princesa City, and it is the largest province in the country in terms of total area of jurisdiction....
    , Philippines
    Philippines

    The Philippines, officially known as the Republic of the Philippines, is a country in Southeast Asia with Manila as its capital city. It comprises 7,107 islands in the western Pacific Ocean....
     and Borneo
    Borneo

    Borneo is the List of islands by area and is located at the centre of Maritime Southeast Asia. Administratively, this island is divided between Indonesia, Malaysia and Brunei....
  • Strait of Baltiysk
    Strait of Baltiysk

    The Strait of Baltiysk is the strait in Kaliningrad Oblast, Russia. It connects Gdansk Bay and Vistula Bay, and separates Sambian Peninsula and Vistula Spit....
     - between Vistula Bay and Gdansk Bay
    Gdansk Bay

    Gdansk Bay or the Bay of Gdansk , is a southeastern Headlands and bays of the Baltic Sea. It is named after the adjacent port city of Gdansk in Poland and it is sometimes referred to as a gulf....
  • Bangka Strait
    Bangka Strait

    Bangka Strait is a strait which separates the island of Sumatra and Bangka Island in the Java Sea, Indonesia....
     - between Sumatra
    Sumatra

    Sumatra is an island in western Indonesia, westernmost of the Sunda Islands. It is the largest island entirely in Indonesia , and the list of islands by area in the world ....
     and Bangka Island
    Bangka Island

    Bangka is an island lying east of Sumatra, Indonesia. Population 626,955. Area: c.4,600 sq mi .There is an additional small island named Pulau Bangka in northern Sulawesi, Indonesia....
  • Banks Strait - between Cape Barren Island/Clarke Island and Tasmania
    Tasmania

    Tasmania is an Australian island and States and territories of Australia of the same name. It is located south of the eastern side of the continent, being separated from it by Bass Strait....
  • Bass Strait
    Bass Strait

    Bass Strait is a sea strait separating Tasmania from the south of the Australian mainland specifically the state of Victoria ....
     - between mainland Australia
    Australia

    Australia, officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country in the southern hemisphere comprising the Australia of the world's smallest continent, the major island of Tasmania, and numerous list of islands of Australia in the Indian Ocean and Pacific Oceans....
     and Tasmania
    Tasmania

    Tasmania is an Australian island and States and territories of Australia of the same name. It is located south of the eastern side of the continent, being separated from it by Bass Strait....
  • Strait of Belle Isle
    Strait of Belle Isle

    The Strait of Belle Isle , sometimes referred to as Straits of Belle Isle or Labrador Straits) is a waterway in eastern Canada that separates the Labrador Peninsula from the island of Newfoundland , in the province of Newfoundland and Labrador....
     - between Newfoundland and mainland Canada
    Canada

    Canada is a country occupying most of northern North America, extending from the Atlantic Ocean in the east to the Pacific Ocean in the west and northward into the Arctic Ocean....
  • Bering Strait
    Bering Strait

    The Bering Strait is a sea strait between Cape Dezhnev, Chukotka Autonomous Okrug, the easternmost point of the Asian continent and Cape Prince of Wales, Alaska, the westernmost point of the North American continent, with latitude of about 65? 40' north, slightly south of the polar circle....
     - between Asia
    Asia

    Asia is the world's largest and most populous continent. It covers 8.6% of the Earth's total surface area and, with over 4 billion people, it contains more than 60% of the world's current human population....
     and North America
    North America

    North America is the northern continent of the Americas, situated in the Earth's northern hemisphere and almost totally in the western hemisphere....
  • Bohol Strait
    Cebu Strait

    Cebu Strait, sometimes called Bohol Strait, is a strait in the Philippines that separates the island Provinces of the Philippines of Cebu Province and Bohol....
     - also called Cebu Strait, between Bohol
    Bohol

    Bohol is an island Provinces of the Philippines of the Philippines located in the Central Visayas Regions of the Philippines, consisting of Bohol and 75 minor surrounding islands....
     and Cebu
    Cebu Island

    Cebu is an island of the Philippines. It is the main island of Cebu Province in Visayas.It lies to the east of Negros; to the east is Leyte and to the southeast is Bohol Island....
     in the Philippines
    Philippines

    The Philippines, officially known as the Republic of the Philippines, is a country in Southeast Asia with Manila as its capital city. It comprises 7,107 islands in the western Pacific Ocean....
  • Strait of Bonifacio
    Strait of Bonifacio

    The Strait of Bonifacio is the strait between Corsica and Sardinia, named after the Corsican town Bonifacio. It is about 7 miles wide and divides the Tyrrhenian Sea from the western Mediterranean Sea....
     - between Corsica
    Corsica

    Corsica is the Mediterranean islands#By area in the Mediterranean Sea . It is located west of Italy, southeast of the France mainland, and north of the island of Sardinia....
     and Sardinia
    Sardinia

    Sardinia is the Mediterranean islands#By area island in the Mediterranean Sea . The area of Sardinia is . The island is surrounded by the France island of Corsica, the Italian Peninsula, Tunisia and the Balearic Islands....
  • Bosporus
    Bosporus

    The Bosporus or Bosphorus , also known as the Istanbul Strait , is a strait that forms the boundary between the European part of Turkey and its Asian part ....
     - between Europe
    Europe

    Europe is, conventionally, one of the world's seven continents. Comprising the westernmost peninsula of Eurasia, Europe is generally divided from Asia to its east by the water divide of the Ural Mountains, the Ural , the Caspian Sea, and by the Caucasus Mountains to the southeast....
     and Asia
    Asia

    Asia is the world's largest and most populous continent. It covers 8.6% of the Earth's total surface area and, with over 4 billion people, it contains more than 60% of the world's current human population....
  • Bougainville Strait
    Bougainville Strait

    Bougainville Strait separates Choiseul Island from Bougainville Island, the next to the northward. It was first passed through in 1768 by Louis Antoine de Bougainville, who christened it....
     - between Bougainville Island
    Bougainville Island

    political geography, Bougainville Island is the main island of the Autonomous Region of Bougainville, part of Papua New Guinea . This region is also known as Bougainville Province or the North Solomons....
     and Choiseul Island
    Choiseul Island

    Choiseul Island is the largest island of the Choiseul Province, Solomon Islands, at . It is named after ?tienne Fran?ois, duc de Choiseul....
  • Bransfield Strait
    Bransfield Strait

    Bransfield Strait is a body of water about 60 miles wide extending for 200 miles in a general northeast-southwest direction between the South Shetland Islands and Antarctic Peninsula....
     - between South Shetland Islands
    South Shetland Islands

    The South Shetland Islands are a group of List of antarctic and sub-antarctic islands, lying about 120 kilometres north of the Antarctic Peninsula....
     and Antarctic Peninsula
    Antarctic Peninsula

    The Antarctic Peninsula is the northernmost part of the mainland of Antarctica. It extends from a line between Cape Adams and a point on the mainland south of Eklund Islands....
  • Bungo Channel
    Bungo Channel

    The is a strait separating the Japanese islands of Kyushu and Shikoku. It connects the Pacific Ocean and Seto Inland Sea. The narrowest part of this channel is the Hoyo Strait....
     - Japan
    Japan

    Japan is an island country in East Asia. Located in the Pacific Ocean, it lies to the east of the Sea of Japan, People's Republic of China, North Korea, South Korea and Russia, stretching from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north to the East China Sea and Taiwan in the south....


C

  • Cabot Strait
    Cabot Strait

    Cabot Strait is a strait in eastern Canada approximately 110 kilometres wide between Cape Ray, Newfoundland and Cape North, Cape Breton Island....
     - between Newfoundland and Cape Breton Island
    Cape Breton Island

    Cape Breton Island is an island on the Atlantic Ocean coast of North America. It likely corresponds to the French word "Breton", referring to Brittany....
  • Strait of Canso
    Strait of Canso

    The Strait of Canso , is a strait located in the province of Nova Scotia, Canada. It divides the Nova Scotia peninsula from Cape Breton Island....
     - between Cape Breton Island
    Cape Breton Island

    Cape Breton Island is an island on the Atlantic Ocean coast of North America. It likely corresponds to the French word "Breton", referring to Brittany....
     and mainland Nova Scotia
    Nova Scotia

    Nova Scotia is a Canadian Provinces and territories of Canada located on Canada's southeastern coast. It is the most populous province in Atlantic Canada....
  • Carquinez Strait
    Carquinez Strait

    The Carquinez Strait is a narrow tidal strait in northern California. It is part of the tidal estuary of the Sacramento River and the San Joaquin River rivers as they drain into the San Francisco Bay....
     - connects San Pablo Bay
    San Pablo Bay

    San Pablo Bay is a shallow tidal estuary that forms the northern extension of San Francisco Bay in northern California in the United States. It receives the waters of the Sacramento River and San Joaquin River rivers, via Suisun Bay and the Carquinez Strait on its east end, and it connects to San Francisco Bay on its south end....
     and Suisun Bay
    Suisun Bay

    Suisun Bay is a shallow tidal estuary located at in central California, United States. It lies at the confluence of the Sacramento River and San Joaquin Rivers, thus forming the entrance to the Sacramento-San Joaquin River Delta, an inverted river delta....
    , California
    California

    California is a U.S. state on the West Coast of the United States of the United States, along the Pacific Ocean. It is bordered by Oregon to the north, Nevada to the east, Arizona to the southeast, and to the south the Mexico state of Baja California....
  • Chatham Strait
    Chatham Strait

    Chatham Strait is a narrow passage of the Alexander Archipelago in the Alaska Panhandle of the U.S. state of Alaska. It separates Chichagof Island and Baranof Island to its west from Admiralty Island and Kuiu Island on its east....
     - between Chichagof Island
    Chichagof Island

    Chichagof Island is an island in the Alexander Archipelago of the Alaska Panhandle. At long and wide, it has a land area of , making it the List of islands of the United States by area and the List of islands by area....
     and Admiralty Island
    Admiralty Island

    Admiralty Island is an island in the Alexander Archipelago in Alaska Panhandle, at . It is 145 km  long and 56 km  wide with an area of 4,264.1 km? , making it the List of islands of the United...
    , Alaska
    Alaska

    Alaska is the largest U.S. state of the United States by area; it is situated in the northwest extremity of the North American continent, with Canada to the east, the Arctic Ocean to the north, and the Pacific Ocean to the west and south, with Russia further west across the Bering Strait....
  • Clarence Strait
    Clarence Strait

    Clarence Strait, originally Duke of Clarence Strait, is a strait in southeastern Alaska, in the United States in the Alexander Archipelago....
     - between Prince of Wales Island and mainland Alaska
    Alaska

    Alaska is the largest U.S. state of the United States by area; it is situated in the northwest extremity of the North American continent, with Canada to the east, the Arctic Ocean to the north, and the Pacific Ocean to the west and south, with Russia further west across the Bering Strait....
  • Colvos Passage
    Colvos Passage

    The Colvos Passage is a tidal strait within Puget Sound in the United States state of Washington running west of Vashon Island between the island and the Kitsap Peninsula....
     - Puget Sound
    Puget Sound

    Puget Sound is an inland marine complex of waterways from the Pacific Ocean, connected to the rest of the Pacific by the Strait of Juan de Fuca, in the Pacific Northwest of the United States....
  • Cook Strait
    Cook Strait

    Cook Strait is the strait between the North Island and South Islands of New Zealand. It connects the Tasman Sea on the west with the South Pacific Ocean on the east....
     - between the North Island
    North Island

    The North Island is one of the two main islands of New Zealand, the other being the South Island. The island is 113,729 square km in area, making it the List of islands by area....
     and South Island
    South Island

    The South Island is the larger of the two major Islands of New Zealand of New Zealand, the other being the more populous North Island. The Maori name for the South Island, Te Wai Pounamu, meaning "The Water/s of Greenstone" , possibly evolved from Te Wahi Pounamu which means "The Place Of Greenstone"....
     of New Zealand
    New Zealand

    New Zealand is an island country in the south-western Pacific Ocean comprising two main landmasses , and numerous Islands of New Zealand, most notably Stewart Island/Rakiura and the Chatham Islands....


D

  • Dalco Passage
    Dalco Passage

    Dalco Passage is a tidal strait within Puget Sound in the U.S. state of Washington. Located between the southern end of Vashon Island and the mainland near Tacoma, Washington, Dalco Passage connects the northern main Puget Sound basin to the southern basin, via the Tacoma Narrows strait....
     - Puget Sound
    Puget Sound

    Puget Sound is an inland marine complex of waterways from the Pacific Ocean, connected to the rest of the Pacific by the Strait of Juan de Fuca, in the Pacific Northwest of the United States....
  • Dampier Strait (Papua New Guinea)
    Dampier Strait (Papua New Guinea)

    Dampier Strait in Papua New Guinea separates Umboi Island and New Britain, linking the Bismarck Sea to the north with the Solomon Sea to the south, at ....
     - between New Britain
    New Britain

    New Britain is the largest island in the Bismarck Archipelago of Papua New Guinea. It is separated from the island of New Guinea by the Dampier Strait , and from New Ireland by the St....
     and Umboi Island
    Umboi Island

    Umboi is a volcanic island between the mainland of Papua New Guinea and the island of New Britain. It is separated from New Britain by Dampier Strait and has an elevation of 1,548 m....
  • Dampier Strait (Indonesia)
    Dampier Strait (Indonesia)

    Dampier Strait in Indonesian province of West Papua is a strait that separates Bird's Head Peninsula and the Raja Ampat islands of Waigeo and Batanta....
     - between Bird's Head Peninsula
    Bird's Head Peninsula

    The Bird's Head Peninsula or Doberai Peninsula is a large peninsula that makes up the northwest portion of the West Papua , Indonesia, at ....
     and Raja Ampat Islands
    Raja Ampat Islands

    Located off the northwest tip of Bird's Head Peninsula on the island of New Guinea, Raja Ampat, or the Four Kings, is an archipelago comprising over 1,500 small islands, cays and shoals surrounding the four main islands of Misool, Salawati, Batanta and Waigeo....
  • Danish straits
    Danish straits

    The Danish straits are the three channels connecting the Baltic sea to the North Sea through the Kattegat and Skagerrak. They transect Denmark, and are not to be confused with the Denmark Strait between Greenland and Iceland....
     - between Scandinavia
    Scandinavia

    Scandinavia is a historical and geographical subregion in northern Europe that includes the Scandinavian Peninsula. It consists of the kingdoms of Norway, Sweden, and Denmark; some authorities also include Finland and some might even include Iceland....
     and Jutland
    Jutland

    File:Jutland peninsula 2.pngJutland , historically also called Cimbria, is a peninsula in Europe. Jutland forms the mainland part of Denmark as well as the northernmost part of Germany....
  • Dardanelles
    Dardanelles

    .The Dardanelles , formerly known as the Hellespont, is a narrow strait in northwestern Turkey connecting the Aegean Sea to the Sea of Marmara....
     - between Europe
    Europe

    Europe is, conventionally, one of the world's seven continents. Comprising the westernmost peninsula of Eurasia, Europe is generally divided from Asia to its east by the water divide of the Ural Mountains, the Ural , the Caspian Sea, and by the Caucasus Mountains to the southeast....
     and Asia
    Asia

    Asia is the world's largest and most populous continent. It covers 8.6% of the Earth's total surface area and, with over 4 billion people, it contains more than 60% of the world's current human population....
  • Davis Strait
    Davis Strait

    Davis Strait ; lies between mid-western Greenland and Baffin Island in the Canada territory of Nunavut.With a water depth of between one and two thousand meters the strait is substantially shallower than the Labrador Sea to the south or Baffin Bay to the north....
     - between Baffin Island
    Baffin Island

    Baffin Island in the territory of Nunavut is the largest member of the Canadian Arctic Archipelago. It is the List of Canadian islands by area and the List of islands by area, with an area of and has a population of 11,000 ....
     and Greenland
    Greenland

    Greenland is a member country of the Kingdom of Denmark located between the Arctic Ocean and Atlantic Oceans, east of the Canadian Arctic Archipelago....
  • Deception Pass
    Deception Pass

    Deception Pass is a strait separating Whidbey Island from Fidalgo Island, in the northwest part of the U.S. state of Washington. It connects Skagit Bay, part of Puget Sound, with the Strait of Juan de Fuca....
     - Puget Sound
    Puget Sound

    Puget Sound is an inland marine complex of waterways from the Pacific Ocean, connected to the rest of the Pacific by the Strait of Juan de Fuca, in the Pacific Northwest of the United States....
  • Denmark Strait
    Denmark Strait

    The Denmark Strait is a strait between Greenland and Iceland . The Norway island of Jan Mayen is located northeast of the strait.It connects the Greenland Sea, an extension of the Arctic Ocean, to the Atlantic Ocean and is 300 miles long and 180 miles wide at its narrowest....
     - between Greenland
    Greenland

    Greenland is a member country of the Kingdom of Denmark located between the Arctic Ocean and Atlantic Oceans, east of the Canadian Arctic Archipelago....
     and Iceland
    Iceland

    Iceland, officially the Republic of Iceland , is an island country located in the North Atlantic Ocean between mainland Europe and Greenland....
  • Detroit River
    Detroit River

    The Detroit River is a river in the Great Lakes system, about 32 miles long and 0.5 to 2.5 miles wide. The name comes from French language Rivi?re du D?troit, i.e....
     - between Lake St. Clair and Lake Erie
    Lake Erie

    Lake Erie is the fourth largest lake of the five Great Lakes, and the tenth largest globally. It is the southernmost, shallowest, and smallest by volume of the Great Lakes and therefore also has the shortest average water residence time....
  • Dolphin and Union Strait
    Dolphin and Union Strait

    Dolphin and Union Strait lies in both the Northwest Territories and Nunavut, Canada, between the mainland and Victoria Island . It links Amundsen Gulf, lying to the northwest, with Coronation Gulf, lying to the southeast....
     - between Northwest Territories
    Northwest Territories

    The Northwest Territories are a provinces and territories of Canada of Canada.Located in northern Canada, it borders Canada's two other territories, Yukon to the west and Nunavut to the east, and three provinces: British Columbia to the southwest, Alberta and Saskatchewan to the south....
     and Victoria Island
  • Strait of Dover
    Strait of Dover

    The Strait of Dover or Dover Strait is the strait at the narrowest part of the English Channel. The shortest distance across the strait is from the South Foreland, some 6 kilometres north-east of Dover in the county of Kent, England, to Cap Gris Nez, a Headlands and bays near to Calais in the French of Pas-de-Calais, Franc...
     or Pas de Calais - (English Channel
    English Channel

    The English Channel is an Arm of the Atlantic Ocean that separates England from northern France, and joins the North Sea to the Atlantic. It is about long and varies in width from at its widest, to only in the Strait of Dover....
    )
  • Dragon's Mouths (Bocas del Dragón) - between Trinidad
    Trinidad and Tobago

    The Republic of Trinidad and Tobago is an island country in the southern Caribbean, lying northeast of the South American country of Venezuela and south of Grenada in the Lesser Antilles....
     and Venezuela
    Venezuela

    Venezuela , officially the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela , is a country on the northern coast of South America.The country comprises a continental mainland and numerous islands located off the Venezuelan coastline in the Caribbean Sea....
  • Drake Passage
    Drake Passage

    The Drake Passage or Mar de Hoces -Sea of "Hoces"- is the body of water between the southern tip of South America at Cape Horn, Chile and the South Shetland Islands of Antarctica....
     - between South America
    South America

    South America is the southern continent of the Americas, situated entirely in the Western Hemisphere and mostly in the Southern Hemisphere, with a relatively small portion in the Northern Hemisphere....
     and Antarctica
    Antarctica

    Antarctica is Earth's southernmost continent, overlying the South Pole. It is situated in the Antarctica of the southern hemisphere, almost entirely south of the Antarctic Circle, and is surrounded by the Southern Ocean....


E

  • East River
    East River

    The East River is a tidal strait in New York City. It connects Upper New York Bay on its south end to Long Island Sound on its north end. It separates Long Island from the island of Manhattan and the Bronx on the North American mainland....
     - between Manhattan
    Manhattan

    Manhattan is one of the five borough of New York City, located primarily on Manhattan Island at the mouth of the Hudson River.With a United States Census of 1,620,867 living in a land area of 22.96 square miles , Manhattan, coextensive with New York County, is the most population density county in the United States, w...
    , the Bronx
    The Bronx

    The Bronx is the northernmost of the Five Boroughs of New York City and the newest of the 62 Administrative divisions of New York#county of New York State....
     and Long Island
    Long Island

    Long Island is an island located in southeastern New York, United States, just east of Manhattan. Stretching northeast into the Atlantic Ocean, Long Island contains four counties, two of which are Borough s of New York City, and two of which are mainly suburban....
  • English Channel
    English Channel

    The English Channel is an Arm of the Atlantic Ocean that separates England from northern France, and joins the North Sea to the Atlantic. It is about long and varies in width from at its widest, to only in the Strait of Dover....
     - between Great Britain
    Great Britain

    Great Britain is an island lying to the northwest of Continental Europe. It is the List of islands by area, and the largest in Europe. With a population of 58.9 million people it is List of islands by population....
     and France
    France

    France , officially the French Republic , is a country whose Metropolitan France is located in Western Europe and that also comprises various Overseas departments and territories of France....
  • Euripus Strait
    Euripus Strait

    The Euripus Strait , is a narrow channel of water separating the Greece island of Euboea in the Aegean Sea from Boeotia in mainland Greece. It is subject to strong tidal currents which reverse direction several times a day....
     - Between the Island of Euboea
    Euboea

    For the Greek mythology figure, see Euboea Euboea is the second largest of the Greece Aegean Islands and the second largest List of islands of Greece overall in area and population, after Crete....
     and Greece
    Greece

    Greece , officially the Hellenic Republic , is a country in southeastern Europe, situated on the southern end of the Balkans. It has borders with Albania, Bulgaria and the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia to the north, and Turkey to the east....
     mainland on the Aegean
    Aegean

    Aegean may refer to*Aegean Sea*Aegean Islands*Aegean Region, Turkey*Aegean civilization*Tyrsenian languages*Aegean Airlines*Aegean Macedonia, another term for the Macedonia ...
    .


F

  • Falkland Sound
    Falkland Sound

    The Falkland Sound is a sea strait in the Falkland Islands. Running south west - north east, it separates West Falkland and East Falkland....
    , - between West Falkland
    West Falkland

    West Falkland is the second largest of the Falkland Islands in the South Atlantic, with an area of approximately 4,532 km? . It is a hilly island, separated from East Falkland by the Falkland Sound....
     and East Falkland
    East Falkland

    East Falkland the largest of the Falkland Islands in the South Atlantic, has an area of 6,605 square kilometres . Its population represents a large majority of the population of the Falklands....
  • Straits of Florida
    Straits of Florida

    The Straits of Florida, Florida Straits, or Florida Strait is a strait located south-southeast of the North American mainland, generally accepted to be between the Gulf of Mexico and the Atlantic Ocean, and between the Florida Keys and Cuba....
     - between Florida
    Florida

    Florida is a U.S. state located in the Southeastern United States of the United States, bordering Alabama to the northwest and Georgia to the northeast....
     and Cuba
    Cuba

    The Republic of Cuba is a country in the Caribbean. It consists of the island of Cuba , the island of Isla de la Juventud, and several adjacent small islands....
  • Formosa Strait - between Taiwan
    Republic of China

    The Republic of China , also known as Nationalist China is a country in East Asia that has evolved from a single-party state with full global recognition into a multi-party democratic state with Political status of Taiwan....
     and the Chinese mainland
    People's Republic of China

    The People's Republic of China , commonly known as China, is the largest country in East Asia and the List of countries by population in the world with over 1.3 billion people, approximately a fifth of the world's population....
  • Foveaux Strait
    Foveaux Strait

    Foveaux Strait is the strait between the South Island, New Zealand on the north side, with the three large bays Te Waewae Bay, Oreti Beach and Toetoes Bay, and the Solander Islands, Stewart Island/Rakiura and Ruapuke Island on the south....
     - between the South Island
    South Island

    The South Island is the larger of the two major Islands of New Zealand of New Zealand, the other being the more populous North Island. The Maori name for the South Island, Te Wai Pounamu, meaning "The Water/s of Greenstone" , possibly evolved from Te Wahi Pounamu which means "The Place Of Greenstone"....
     and Stewart Island
    Stewart Island/Rakiura

    Stewart Island/Rakiura is the third-largest island of New Zealand. It lies south of South Island, across Foveaux Strait. Its permanent population is slightly fewer than 400 people, most of whom live in the settlement of Oban, New Zealand....
     of New Zealand
    New Zealand

    New Zealand is an island country in the south-western Pacific Ocean comprising two main landmasses , and numerous Islands of New Zealand, most notably Stewart Island/Rakiura and the Chatham Islands....
  • Fury and Hecla Strait
    Fury and Hecla Strait

    Fury and Hecla Strait is a narrow channel of water located in the Qikiqtaaluk Region of Nunavut, Canada. Situated between Baffin Island and Melville Peninsula it connects Foxe Basin, to the east, with the Gulf of Boothia, to the west....
     - between Baffin Island
    Baffin Island

    Baffin Island in the territory of Nunavut is the largest member of the Canadian Arctic Archipelago. It is the List of Canadian islands by area and the List of islands by area, with an area of and has a population of 11,000 ....
     and Melville Peninsula
    Melville Peninsula

    Melville Peninsula is a large peninsula in the Canada Arctic. Since 1999, it has been part of Nunavut. Before that, it was part of the District of Franklin....


G

  • Strait of Georgia
    Strait of Georgia

    The Strait of Georgia or the Georgia Strait , is a strait between Vancouver Island and the mainland Pacific coast of British Columbia, Canada....
     - between Vancouver Island
    Vancouver Island

    Vancouver Island is a large island in British Columbia, Canada, one of several North American regions named after George Vancouver, the British Royal Navy officer who explored the Pacific Ocean coast of North America between 1791 and 1794....
     and British Columbia
    British Columbia

    British Columbia is the westernmost of Canada's Provinces and territories of Canada and is famed for its natural beauty, as reflected in its Latin motto, Splendor sine occasu ....
  • Strait of Gibraltar
    Strait of Gibraltar

    The Strait of Gibraltar is the strait that connects the Atlantic Ocean to the Mediterranean Sea and separates Spain from Morocco. The name comes from Gibraltar, which in turn originates from the Arabic language Jebel Tariq meaning mountain of Tariq....
     - between Europe
    Europe

    Europe is, conventionally, one of the world's seven continents. Comprising the westernmost peninsula of Eurasia, Europe is generally divided from Asia to its east by the water divide of the Ural Mountains, the Ural , the Caspian Sea, and by the Caucasus Mountains to the southeast....
     and Africa
    Africa

    Africa is the world's second-largest and second most-populous continent, after Asia. At about 30.2 million km? including adjacent islands, it covers 6% of the Earth's total surface area and 20.4% of the total land area....
  • Golden Gate
    Golden Gate

    The Golden Gate is the North American strait connecting San Francisco Bay to the Pacific Ocean. Since 1937 it has been spanned by the Golden Gate Bridge....
     - between the Marin
    Marin County, California

    Marin County is a county located in the North San Francisco Bay Area of the U.S. state of California, across the Golden Gate Bridge from San Francisco, California....
     headlands and San Francisco, California
    San Francisco, California

    The City and County of San Francisco is the fourth most populous city in California and the List of United States cities by population in the United States, with a 2007 estimated population of 799,183....
  • Great Belt
    Great Belt

    The Great Belt is a strait between the main Denmark islands of Zealand and Fyn. Since 1997 the islands have been connected by the Great Belt Bridge....
     - Denmark
    Denmark

    Denmark is a Scandinavian country in northern Europe and the senior member of the Kingdom of Denmark. It is the southernmost of the Nordic countries....
  • Guadeloupe Passage
    Guadeloupe Passage

    Guadeloupe Passage is a strait in the Caribbean, at . It separates Guadeloupe and Antigua and Barbuda....
     - north of Guadeloupe
    Guadeloupe

    Guadeloupe is an island group or archipelago located in the eastern Caribbean Sea at , with a land area of 1,628 square kilometres . It is an overseas department of France....
    , West Indies


H

  • Harlem River
    Harlem River

    The Harlem River is a navigable tidal strait in New York City, United States that flows 8 miles between the East River and the Hudson River , separating the borough of Manhattan and the Bronx....
     - between Manhattan
    Manhattan

    Manhattan is one of the five borough of New York City, located primarily on Manhattan Island at the mouth of the Hudson River.With a United States Census of 1,620,867 living in a land area of 22.96 square miles , Manhattan, coextensive with New York County, is the most population density county in the United States, w...
     and The Bronx
    The Bronx

    The Bronx is the northernmost of the Five Boroughs of New York City and the newest of the 62 Administrative divisions of New York#county of New York State....
  • Hecate Strait
    Hecate Strait

    Hecate Strait is a wide but shallow strait between the Queen Charlotte Islands and the mainland of British Columbia, Canada. It merges with Queen Charlotte Sound to the south and Dixon Entrance to the north....
     - between Queen Charlotte Island and British Columbia
    British Columbia

    British Columbia is the westernmost of Canada's Provinces and territories of Canada and is famed for its natural beauty, as reflected in its Latin motto, Splendor sine occasu ....
  • Honguedo Strait
    Honguedo Strait

    The Honguedo Strait is a strait in eastern North America.Flowing between Anticosti Island and the Gaspe in Quebec, Canada, it is one of the two outlets of the Saint Lawrence River into its estuary, the Gulf of Saint Lawrence....
     - between Anticosti Island
    Anticosti Island

    Anticosti Island is an island at the outlet of the Saint Lawrence River into the Gulf of Saint Lawrence, in Quebec, between 49? and 50? N., and between 61? 40' and 64? 30' W....
     and Gaspé Peninsula
    Gaspé Peninsula

    The Gasp?sie or also Gasp? Peninsula or the Gasp? is a peninsula constituting part of the south shore of the Saint Lawrence River, in Quebec, Canada....
     in Quebec
    Quebec

    Quebec , in French language, Qu?bec , is a Provinces and territories of Canada in the Central Canada and Eastern Canada regions of Canada....
  • Strait of Hormuz
    Strait of Hormuz

    The Strait of Hormuz is a narrow, strategically important waterway between the Gulf of Oman in the southeast and the Persian Gulf in the southwest....
     - between Arabia and Iran
    Iran

    Iran , officially the Islamic Republic of Iran and formerly known internationally as Persian Empire until 1935, is a country in Central Eurasia, located on the northeastern shore of the Persian Gulf and the southern shore of the Caspian Sea....
  • Hoyo Strait
    Hoyo Strait

    The is the strait at the narrowest part of the Bungo Channel in Japan....
     - Japan
    Japan

    Japan is an island country in East Asia. Located in the Pacific Ocean, it lies to the east of the Sea of Japan, People's Republic of China, North Korea, South Korea and Russia, stretching from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north to the East China Sea and Taiwan in the south....
  • Hudson Strait
    Hudson Strait

    Hudson Strait links the Atlantic Ocean to Hudson Bay in Canada. It lies between Baffin Island and the northern coast of Quebec, its eastern entrance marked by Cape Chidley and Resolution Island ....
     - between Baffin Island
    Baffin Island

    Baffin Island in the territory of Nunavut is the largest member of the Canadian Arctic Archipelago. It is the List of Canadian islands by area and the List of islands by area, with an area of and has a population of 11,000 ....
     and Quebec
    Quebec

    Quebec , in French language, Qu?bec , is a Provinces and territories of Canada in the Central Canada and Eastern Canada regions of Canada....


J

  • Johor Strait - between Singapore
    Singapore

    Singapore , officially the Republic of Singapore, is an island country microstate located at the southern tip of the Malay Peninsula. It lies 137 kilometres north of the equator, south of the Malaysian state of Johor and north of Indonesia's Riau Islands....
     and the state of Johor
    Johor

    Johor is a state of Malaysia between 1?20"N and 2?35"N. It is one of the most developed states in Malaysia. The capital city and royal seat of Johor is Johor Bahru, formerly Tanjung Puteri ....
     of Malaysia
    Malaysia

    Malaysia is a federation that consists of States of Malaysia in Southeast Asia with a total landmass of . The capital city is Kuala Lumpur, while Putrajaya is the seat of the federal government....
  • Strait of Juan de Fuca
    Strait of Juan de Fuca

    The Strait of Juan de Fuca is a large body of water about long forming the principal outlet for the Strait of Georgia and Puget Sound, connecting both to the Pacific Ocean....
     - between Vancouver Island
    Vancouver Island

    Vancouver Island is a large island in British Columbia, Canada, one of several North American regions named after George Vancouver, the British Royal Navy officer who explored the Pacific Ocean coast of North America between 1791 and 1794....
    , Canada
    Canada

    Canada is a country occupying most of northern North America, extending from the Atlantic Ocean in the east to the Pacific Ocean in the west and northward into the Arctic Ocean....
     and Olympic Peninsula
    Olympic Peninsula

    The Olympic Peninsula is the large arm of land in western Washington state that lies across Puget Sound from Seattle, Washington. It is bounded on the west by the Pacific Ocean, the north by the Strait of Juan de Fuca, and the east by Puget Sound and the Hood Canal....
    , United States
    United States

    The United States of America is a Federal government constitutional republic comprising U.S. state and a federal district. The country is situated mostly in central North America, where its Contiguous United States and Washington, D.C., the Capital districts and territories, lie between the Pacific Ocean and Atlantic Oceans, Borders of the U...


K

  • Kalmar Strait
    Kalmar Strait

    The Kalmar Strait, Kalmarsund, is a strait in the Baltic Sea, located between the Sweden island of ?land and the province of Sm?land of the Swedish mainland....
     - between Öland
    Öland

    is the second largest Islands of Sweden and the smallest of the traditional provinces of Sweden. ?land has an area of 1,342 km? and is located in Baltic Sea just off the coast of Sm?land....
     and Småland
    Småland

    is a historical Provinces of Sweden in southern Sweden.Sm?land borders Blekinge, Scania or Sk?ne, Halland, V?sterg?tland, ?sterg?tland and the island ?land in the Baltic Sea....
  • Kanmon Strait - between Honshu
    Honshu

    or Honshu is the largest island of Japan. The nation's main island, it is south of Hokkaido across the Tsugaru Strait, north of Shikoku across the Inland Sea, and northeast of Kyushu across the Kanmon Strait....
     and Kyushu
    Kyushu

    or Kyushu is the third-largest island of Japan and most southwesterly of its Japanese Archipelago. Its alternate ancient names include Kyukoku , Chinzei , and Tsukushi-no-shima ....
  • Kara Strait
    Kara Strait

    The Kara Strait is a 56 km wide channel of water between the southern end of Novaya Zemlya and the northern tip of Vaygach Island. This strait connects the Kara Sea and the Barents Sea in northern Russia....
  • Karimata Strait
    Karimata Strait

    The Karimata Strait is the wide strait that connects the South China Sea to the Java Sea, between the islands of Sumatra and Borneo in Indonesia....
     - between Sumatra
    Sumatra

    Sumatra is an island in western Indonesia, westernmost of the Sunda Islands. It is the largest island entirely in Indonesia , and the list of islands by area in the world ....
     and Borneo
    Borneo

    Borneo is the List of islands by area and is located at the centre of Maritime Southeast Asia. Administratively, this island is divided between Indonesia, Malaysia and Brunei....
  • Kerch Strait - between Crimea
    Crimea

    Crimea or the Autonomous Republic of Crimea is an autonomous republic of Ukraine located on the northern coast of the Black Sea, occupying a peninsula of the same name....
     and Russia
    Russia

    Russia , or the Russian Federation , is a list of countries spanning more than one continent country extending over much of northern Eurasia....
  • Kill Van Kull
    Kill Van Kull

    The Kill Van Kull is a tidal strait approximately long and wide separating Staten Island, New York and Bayonne, New Jersey, United States. The name Kill comes from from the Middle Dutch language word Kill , meaning "riverbed" or "water channel."...
     - between Staten Island
    Staten Island

    Staten Island is a borough of New York City, situated almost entirely on the island of the same name in the extreme southwest part of the city....
     and Bayonne, New Jersey
    Bayonne, New Jersey

    Bayonne is a City in Hudson County, New Jersey, New Jersey, United States, south of Jersey City. As of the United States 2000 Census, the city had a total population of 61,842....
  • Kitan Strait - Japan
    Japan

    Japan is an island country in East Asia. Located in the Pacific Ocean, it lies to the east of the Sea of Japan, People's Republic of China, North Korea, South Korea and Russia, stretching from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north to the East China Sea and Taiwan in the south....
  • Korea Strait
    Korea Strait

    The Korea Strait is a strait between South Korea and Japan, connecting the East China Sea and the Sea of Japan in the northwest Pacific Ocean. The strait is split by the Tsushima Island into the western channel and the Tsushima Strait ....
     - between Korea
    Korea

    Korea is a geographic area composed of two sovereign countries, a civilization, and a former state situated on the Korean Peninsula in East Asia....
     and Japan
    Japan

    Japan is an island country in East Asia. Located in the Pacific Ocean, it lies to the east of the Sea of Japan, People's Republic of China, North Korea, South Korea and Russia, stretching from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north to the East China Sea and Taiwan in the south....
  • Kwangtung Strait


L

  • La Perouse Strait
    La Perouse Strait

    La P?rouse Strait is a strait dividing the southern part of the Russian island of Sakhalin from the northern part of the Japanese island of Hokkaido, and connecting the Sea of Japan on the west with the Sea of Okhotsk on the east....
     (also Soya Strait) - between Sakhalin
    Sakhalin

    Sakhalin , also Saghalien, is a large elongated island in the North Pacific, lying between 45?50' and 54?24' N. It is part of Russia and is its largest island, administered as part of Sakhalin Oblast....
     and Japan
    Japan

    Japan is an island country in East Asia. Located in the Pacific Ocean, it lies to the east of the Sea of Japan, People's Republic of China, North Korea, South Korea and Russia, stretching from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north to the East China Sea and Taiwan in the south....
  • Lancaster Strait
  • Little Belt
    Little Belt

    The Little Belt is a strait between the Denmark island of Funen and the Jutland Peninsula.The belt is about 50Kilometre long and 800Metre to 28km wide, the maximum depth is approximately 75m....
     - Denmark
    Denmark

    Denmark is a Scandinavian country in northern Europe and the senior member of the Kingdom of Denmark. It is the southernmost of the Nordic countries....
  • Lombok Strait
    Lombok Strait

    The Lombok Strait is a strait connecting the Java Sea to the Indian Ocean, located between the islands of Bali and Lombok in Indonesia.Its narrowest point is at its southern opening, with a width of only 18 km, but at the northern opening it is 40 km across....
  • Luzon Strait
    Luzon Strait

    The Luzon Strait is an important strait connecting the Philippine Sea, in the western Pacific Ocean, to the South China Sea, between Taiwan and Luzon in the Philippines....
     - between Taiwan
    Taiwan

    Taiwan is an island in East Asia. "Taiwan" is also commonly used to refer to the country governed by the Republic of China and to the ROC itself, which governs the island of Taiwan, Orchid Island and Green Island, Taiwan in the Pacific Ocean off the Taiwan coast, the Penghu islands in the Taiwan Strait, and Kinmen and the Matsu Islands...
     and Luzon
    Luzon

    Luzon is the largest and most economically and politically important island in the Philippines and one of the three island groups in the country, with Visayas and Mindanao being the other two....
    , Philippines
    Philippines

    The Philippines, officially known as the Republic of the Philippines, is a country in Southeast Asia with Manila as its capital city. It comprises 7,107 islands in the western Pacific Ocean....


M

  • Straits of Mackinac
    Straits of Mackinac

    The Straits of Mackinac is the strip of water that connects two of the Great Lakes , Lake Michigan and Lake Huron, and separates the Lower Peninsula of Michigan from the Upper Peninsula of Michigan....
     - between Michigan
    Michigan

    Michigan is a Midwestern United States U.S. state of the United States of America. It was named after Lake Michigan, whose name is a French adaptation of the Anishinaabe language term mishigama, meaning "large water" or "large lake"....
    's Upper
    Upper Peninsula of Michigan

    The Upper Peninsula of Michigan is the northern of the two major land masses that comprise the U.S. state of Michigan. It is commonly referred to as the Upper Peninsula, the U.P., or Upper Michigan....
     and Lower Peninsula
    Lower Peninsula of Michigan

    The Lower Peninsula of Michigan is surrounded by water on all sides except its southern border, which it shares with Ohio and Indiana. Geographically, the Lower Peninsula has a recognizable shape that many people associate with a mitten, with the mid-eastern region identified as The Thumb....
    s
  • Strait of Magellan
    Strait of Magellan

    The Strait of Magellan comprises a navigable sea route immediately south of mainland Chile and north of Isla Grande de Tierra del Fuego. The waterway is the most important natural passage between the Pacific and the Atlantic oceans, but it is considered a difficult route to navigate because of the inhospitable climate and the narrowness o...
     - between South America
    South America

    South America is the southern continent of the Americas, situated entirely in the Western Hemisphere and mostly in the Southern Hemisphere, with a relatively small portion in the Northern Hemisphere....
     and Tierra del Fuego
    Tierra del Fuego

    Tierra del Fuego is an archipelago separated from the southernmost tip of the South American mainland by the Strait of Magellan. The southern point of the archipelago forms Cape Horn....
  • Makassar Strait
    Makassar Strait

    Makassar Strait is a strait between the islands of Borneo and Sulawesi in Indonesia. To the north it joins the Celebes Sea, while to the south it meets the Java Sea....
     - between Borneo
    Borneo

    Borneo is the List of islands by area and is located at the centre of Maritime Southeast Asia. Administratively, this island is divided between Indonesia, Malaysia and Brunei....
     and Sulawesi
    Sulawesi

    Sulawesi is one of the four larger Sunda Islands of Indonesia and is situated between Borneo and the Maluku Islands....
  • Straits of Malacca - between Malaysia
    Malaysia

    Malaysia is a federation that consists of States of Malaysia in Southeast Asia with a total landmass of . The capital city is Kuala Lumpur, while Putrajaya is the seat of the federal government....
     and Sumatra
    Sumatra

    Sumatra is an island in western Indonesia, westernmost of the Sunda Islands. It is the largest island entirely in Indonesia , and the list of islands by area in the world ....
  • Mare Island Strait
    Mare Island Strait

    The Mare Island Strait is a channel at in the San Francisco Bay separating Mare Island and the mainland in Vallejo, California in Solano County....
  • Martinique Passage
    Martinique Passage

    Martinique Passage is a strait in the Caribbean, at . It separates Dominica and Martinique....
     - between Dominica
    Dominica

    The Commonwealth of Dominica, commonly known as Dominica, is an island nation in the Caribbean Sea. To the north/northwest lies Guadeloupe, to the southeast Martinique....
     and Martinique
    Martinique

    Martinique is an island in the eastern Caribbean Sea, having a land area of 1,128 km?. It is an overseas department of France. To the northwest lies Dominica, to the south St Lucia....
  • McClure Strait
    McClure Strait

    The McClure Strait is a strait on the edge of the Canada Northwest Territories. It forms the northwestern end of one of the routes through the Northwest Passage....
     - Melville Island
    Melville Island, Canada

    Melville Island is a vast, uninhabited member of the Canadian Arctic Archipelago, Canada with an area of . It is the list of islands by area and List of Canadian islands by area....
     and Banks Island
    Banks Island

    One of the larger members of the Canadian Arctic Archipelago, Banks Island is situated in the Inuvik Region of the Northwest Territories, Canada....
  • Menai Strait
    Menai Strait

    The Menai Strait is a narrow stretch of shallow tidal water about 14 miles long, which separates the island of Anglesey from the mainland of Wales....
     - between Anglesey
    Anglesey

    Anglesey is an island and principal areas of Wales off the northwest coast of Wales, with a predominantly Welsh language-speaking population. It is connected to the mainland by two bridges spanning the Menai Strait: the original Menai Suspension Bridge , designed by Thomas Telford in 1826; and the newer reconstructed Britannia Bridge ; which...
     and mainland Wales
    Wales

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  • Strait of Messina
    Strait of Messina

    The Strait of Messina is the narrow section of water between the eastern tip of Sicily and the southern tip of Calabria in the south of Italy....
     - between Sicily
    Sicily

    Sicily is an Autonomous regions with special statute of Italy. Of all the regions of Italy, Sicily covers the largest land area at 25,708 km? and currently has just over five million inhabitants....
     and mainland Italy
    Italy

    Italy , officially the Italian Republic , is a country located on the Italian Peninsula in Southern Europe and on the two largest islands in the Mediterranean Sea, Sicily and Sardinia....
  • The Minch
    The Minch

    The Minch , also called The North Minch, is a strait in north-west Scotland, separating the north-west Scottish Highlands, and the northern Inner Hebrides, from Lewis and Harris, Outer Hebrides in the Outer Hebrides....
     - between Outer Hebrides
    Outer Hebrides

    The Outer Hebrides, comprise an Archipelago off the west coast of Scotland. The local government area is one of the 32 unitary council areas of Scotland....
     and mainland Scotland
    Scotland

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  • Mindoro Strait
    Mindoro Strait

    Mindoro Strait is a strait in the Philippines, . separating Mindoro island from Palawan province....
     - between Mindoro
    Mindoro

    Mindoro is the seventh-largest island in the Philippines. It is located southwest of Luzon, and northeast of Palawan. In past times, it has been called Ma-i or Mait by ancient China traders and, by Spain, as Mina de Oro from where the island got its current name....
     and Palawan
    Palawan

    Palawan is an island province of the Philippines located in the MIMAROPA Regions of the Philippines. Its capital is Puerto Princesa City, and it is the largest province in the country in terms of total area of jurisdiction....
     in the Philippines
    Philippines

    The Philippines, officially known as the Republic of the Philippines, is a country in Southeast Asia with Manila as its capital city. It comprises 7,107 islands in the western Pacific Ocean....
  • Mona Passage
    Mona Passage

    The Mona Passage is a strait that separates the islands of Hispaniola and Puerto Rico. The Mona Passage connects the Atlantic Ocean to the Caribbean Sea, and is an important shipping route between the Atlantic and the Panama Canal....
     - between Hispaniola
    Hispaniola

    Hispaniola is the second-largest and most populous island of the Antilles, lying between the islands of Cuba to the west, and Puerto Rico to the east....
     and Puerto Rico
    Puerto Rico

    Puerto Rico , officially the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico , is a Autonomy Territories of the United States of the United States located in the northeastern Caribbean, east of the Dominican Republic and west of the Virgin Islands....
  • Myeongnyang Strait
    Myeongnyang Strait

    The Myeongnyang Strait, just off the southwest corner of South Korea, separates Jindo Island from the mainland. It also separates the administrative district of Namhae County from Jindo County....
     - between Jindo Island
    Jindo Island

    Jindo Island is an island in South Jeolla province, South Korea. It lies just off the southwest corner of the Korean peninsula. It is separated from the mainland by the Myeongnyang Strait; however, this strait is now spanned by South Korea's longest suspension bridge, the Jindo Bridge....
     and mainland South Korea
    South Korea

    South Korea, officially the Republic of Korea , ), often referred to as Korea and the "names of Korea#Revival of the names", is a Semi-presidential system republic in East Asia, located in the southern half of the Korean Peninsula....


N

  • Nares Strait
    Nares Strait

    Nares Strait is a waterway lying between Ellesmere Island and Greenland. It links Baffin Bay with the Lincoln Sea in the Arctic Ocean. From south to north, the strait consists of Smith Sound, Kane Basin , Kennedy Channel, Hall Basin and Robeson Channel....
     - between Ellesmere Island
    Ellesmere Island

    Ellesmere Island is part of the Qikiqtaaluk Region of the Canada territory of Nunavut. Lying within the Canadian Arctic Archipelago it is considered part of the Queen Elizabeth Islands, with Cape Columbia being the most northerly point of land in Canada....
     and Northern Greenland
    Greenland

    Greenland is a member country of the Kingdom of Denmark located between the Arctic Ocean and Atlantic Oceans, east of the Canadian Arctic Archipelago....
     and connects Baffin Bay
    Baffin Bay

    Baffin Bay is a sea between the Atlantic Ocean and Arctic Ocean oceans. It is 1,130 km across from north to south. It is not navigable most of the year because of the presence of large numbers of icebergs....
     with Lincoln Sea
    Lincoln Sea

    Lincoln Sea is a body of water in the Arctic Ocean, stretching from Cape Columbia, Canada in the west to Cape Morris Jesup, Greenland in the east....
     / the Arctic Sea.
  • The Narrows
    The Narrows

    The Narrows is the tidal strait separating the boroughs of Staten Island, New York and Brooklyn, New York in New York City. It connects the Upper New York Bay and Lower New York Bay sections of New York Bay and forms the principal channel by which the Hudson River empties into the Atlantic Ocean....
     - between Staten Island
    Staten Island

    Staten Island is a borough of New York City, situated almost entirely on the island of the same name in the extreme southwest part of the city....
     and Brooklyn
    Brooklyn

    Brooklyn is one of the five Borough of New York City, located at the western end of Long Island. An independent city until its consolidation with New York in 1898, Brooklyn is New York City's most populous borough, with 2.5 million residents, and second largest in area....
     in New York City
  • Naruto Strait
    Naruto Strait

    is a strait between Awaji Island and Shikoku in Japan. It connects Harima nada, the eastern part of the Inland Sea and Kii Channel. A famous feature of the strait is the Naruto whirlpool....
     - Japan
    Japan

    Japan is an island country in East Asia. Located in the Pacific Ocean, it lies to the east of the Sea of Japan, People's Republic of China, North Korea, South Korea and Russia, stretching from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north to the East China Sea and Taiwan in the south....
  • The Straits of Niagara (East and West) - between the Great Lake Erie and the Great Lake Ontario / and Ontario, CA and New York State, USA
  • North Channel
    North Channel (British Isles)

    The North Channel is the strait which separates eastern Northern Ireland from southwestern Scotland. It is part of the marine area officially classified as 'Inner Seas off the West Coast of Scotland' by the International Hydrographic Organisation ....
     - between Northern Ireland
    Northern Ireland

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     and Scotland
    Scotland

    conventional_long_name = ScotlandAlba|common_name= Scotland|image_flag = Flag of Scotland.svg|flag_width = 130px...
  • Northumberland Strait
    Northumberland Strait

    File:Northumberland Strait map.pngThe Northumberland Strait is a strait in the southern part of the Gulf of Saint Lawrence in eastern Canada....
     - between Prince Edward Island
    Prince Edward Island

    Prince Edward Island is a Canada Provinces and territories of Canada consisting of an island of the same name. The Maritimes is the smallest in the nation in both land area and population ....
     and New Brunswick
    New Brunswick

    New Brunswick is one of Canada's three Maritime provinces and is the only Constitution of Canada bilingual province in the federation. The provincial capital is Fredericton....
    /Nova Scotia
    Nova Scotia

    Nova Scotia is a Canadian Provinces and territories of Canada located on Canada's southeastern coast. It is the most populous province in Atlantic Canada....


O

  • Oresund
    Oresund

    Properly spelled with diacritics, ?resund or ?resund , sometimes also known as The Sound, is the strait that separates the Denmark island Zealand from the southern Swedish province of Scania ....
     - between Denmark
    Denmark

    Denmark is a Scandinavian country in northern Europe and the senior member of the Kingdom of Denmark. It is the southernmost of the Nordic countries....
     and Sweden
    Sweden

    Sweden , officially the Kingdom of Sweden , is a Nordic countries on the Scandinavian Peninsula in Northern Europe. Sweden has land borders with Norway to the west and Finland to the northeast, and it is connected to Denmark by the ?resund Bridge in the south....
  • Strait of Otranto
    Strait of Otranto

    The Strait of Otranto connects the Adriatic Sea with the Ionian Sea. Its width is 45-55 nautical mile . The strait is named after the Italy city of Otranto....
     - between Italy
    Italy

    Italy , officially the Italian Republic , is a country located on the Italian Peninsula in Southern Europe and on the two largest islands in the Mediterranean Sea, Sicily and Sardinia....
     and Albania
    Albania

    Albania , officially the Republic of Albania , is a country in Balkans. It is bordered by Greece to the south-east, Montenegro to the north, Kosovo to the northeast, and the Republic of Macedonia to the east....


P

  • Palk Strait
    Palk Strait

    The Palk Strait is a strait that lies between the Tamil Nadu States and territories of India of India and the island nation of Sri Lanka. It connects the Bay of Bengal to the northeast with the Gulf of Mannar to the south....
     - between India
    India

    India, officially the Republic of India , is a country in South Asia. It is the List of countries and outlying territories by total area country by geographical area, the List of countries by population country, and the most populous liberal democracy in the world....
     and Sri Lanka
    Sri Lanka

    Sri Lanka, officially the Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka is an island country in South Asia, located about off the southern coast of India....
  • Pentland Firth
    Pentland Firth

    The Pentland Firth , which is actually more of a strait than a firth, separates the Orkney Islands from Caithness in the north of Scotland. The name is presumed to be a corruption of "Petlandsfj?r?", the fjord of Pictland, and is completely unrelated to the Pentland Hills near Edinburgh....
     - between the Orkney archipelago and the mainland of Scotland
    Scotland

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  • Pertuis d'Antioche
    Pertuis d'Antioche

    The Pertuis d'Antioche is a strait on the Atlantic coast of Western France, located between the two islands ?le de R? and Oleron and the continental coast, between the cities of La Rochelle and the naval arsenal of Rochefort, Charente-Maritime....
     - on the Atlantic coast of Western France
    France

    France , officially the French Republic , is a country whose Metropolitan France is located in Western Europe and that also comprises various Overseas departments and territories of France....
  • Pickering Passage
    Pickering Passage

    Pickering Passage is a strait, in the southern end of part of Puget Sound in the U.S. state of Washington. Entirely within Mason County, Washington, the Pickering Passage separates Harstine Island, Washington from the mainland, and connects Totten Inlet with the north end of Case Inlet....
     - Puget Sound
    Puget Sound

    Puget Sound is an inland marine complex of waterways from the Pacific Ocean, connected to the rest of the Pacific by the Strait of Juan de Fuca, in the Pacific Northwest of the United States....
  • Port Washington Narrows
    Port Washington Narrows

    The Port Washington Narrows is a Tide strait located in Bremerton, Washington. The northwest entrance is marked on the west side by Rocky Point, and the southeast entrance is located at Point Turner on the west side and Point Herron on the east side....
     - Puget Sound
    Puget Sound

    Puget Sound is an inland marine complex of waterways from the Pacific Ocean, connected to the rest of the Pacific by the Strait of Juan de Fuca, in the Pacific Northwest of the United States....
  • Porte des Morts
    Porte des Morts

    Porte des Morts, also known as Porte des Mortes, the Door of Death, and Death's Door is a strait linking Lake Michigan and Green Bay between the northern tip of the peninsula of Door County, Wisconsin and a group of islands historically known as the Potawatomi Islands and dominated by Washington Island ....
     - between the Bay of Green Bay
    Bay of Green Bay

    Green Bay is an arm of Lake Michigan, located along the south-west coast of Michigan's Upper Peninsula and the east coast of Wisconsin. It is separated from the rest of the lake by the Door Peninsula in Wisconsin, the Garden Peninsula in Michigan, and the chain of islands between them, all formed by the Niagara Escarpment....
     and Lake Michigan
    Lake Michigan

    Lake Michigan is one of the five Great Lakes of North America, and the only one located entirely within the United States. The third-largest of the Great Lakes, it is bounded, from west to east, by the U.S....
  • Panama
    Panama

    Panama, officially the Republic of Panama , is the southernmost country of Central America and, in turn, North America. Situated on an isthmus connecting North and South America, some categorize it as a transcontinental nation....
     - Between North America
    North America

    North America is the northern continent of the Americas, situated in the Earth's northern hemisphere and almost totally in the western hemisphere....
     and South America
    South America

    South America is the southern continent of the Americas, situated entirely in the Western Hemisphere and mostly in the Southern Hemisphere, with a relatively small portion in the Northern Hemisphere....
     (Panama Canal
    Panama Canal

    The Panama Canal is a man-made canal which joins the Pacific Ocean and Atlantic Ocean oceans. One of the largest and most difficult engineering projects ever undertaken, it had an enormous impact on shipping between the two oceans, replacing the long and treacherous route via the Drake Passage and Cape Horn at the southernmost tip of South Am...
    )


Q


  • Qiongzhou Strait
    Qiongzhou Strait

    The Qiongzhou Strait , also called Hainan Strait, is a body of water that separates the Leizhou Peninsula in Guangdong, southern China, to the north from Hainan to its south....
     - Hainan
    Hainan

    Hainan is the smallest Provinces of China of the People's Republic of China. Although the province comprises some two hundred islands scattered among three archipelagos off the southern coast, all but three percent of its land mass is on Hainan Island , from which the province takes its name....
     and Guangdong
    Guangdong

    Guangdong is a political divisions of China on the southern coast of People's Republic of China. The province is also known by an alternative English language name, the Canton Province....


R


  • Rich Passage
    Rich Passage

    Rich Passage is a Tide strait in Puget Sound, allowing access to Bremerton, Washington, Port Orchard Bay and Dyes Inlet, and separating Bainbridge Island from the Manchester, Washington area of the Kitsap Peninsula....
     - Puget Sound
    Puget Sound

    Puget Sound is an inland marine complex of waterways from the Pacific Ocean, connected to the rest of the Pacific by the Strait of Juan de Fuca, in the Pacific Northwest of the United States....


S

  • St George's Channel
    St George's Channel

    St George's Channel is a channel connecting the Irish Sea to the north and the Atlantic Ocean to the southwest. Historically, the name encompassed all the waters between Ireland in the west, and Wales and the West Country in the east; thus the Bristol Channel opened into St George's Channel....
     - between Ireland
    Ireland

    Ireland is the List of islands by area in Europe, and the twentieth-largest island in the world. It lies to the north-west of continental Europe and is surrounded by hundreds of islands and islet....
     and Wales
    Wales

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  • St George's Channel - between New Britain
    New Britain

    New Britain is the largest island in the Bismarck Archipelago of Papua New Guinea. It is separated from the island of New Guinea by the Dampier Strait , and from New Ireland by the St....
     and New Ireland
    New Ireland

    New Ireland Province, formerly New Mecklenburg is the most northeastern Provinces of Papua New Guinea of Papua New Guinea....
     in the Bismarck Archipelago
    Bismarck Archipelago

    The Bismarck Archipelago is a group of islands off the northeastern coast of New Guinea in the western Pacific Ocean and part of Papua New Guinea....
  • San Bernardino Strait
    San Bernardino Strait

    The San Bernardino Strait is a strait in the Philippines. It separates the Bicol Peninsula of Luzon island from the island of Samar in the south....
     - between Luzon
    Luzon

    Luzon is the largest and most economically and politically important island in the Philippines and one of the three island groups in the country, with Visayas and Mindanao being the other two....
     and Samar in the Philippines
    Philippines

    The Philippines, officially known as the Republic of the Philippines, is a country in Southeast Asia with Manila as its capital city. It comprises 7,107 islands in the western Pacific Ocean....
  • San Juanico Strait
    San Juanico Strait

    San Juanico Strait is a narrow strait in the Philippines. It separates the islands of Samar and Leyte . At its narrowest point, the strait is only 2 km wide....
     - between Samar and Leyte islands in the Philippines
    Philippines

    The Philippines, officially known as the Republic of the Philippines, is a country in Southeast Asia with Manila as its capital city. It comprises 7,107 islands in the western Pacific Ocean....
  • Scapa Flow
    Scapa Flow

    Scapa Flow is a body of water in the Orkney, Scotland, United Kingdom, sheltered by the islands of Orkney Mainland, Graemsay, Burray, South Ronaldsay and Hoy....
     - between several of the Orkney islands
  • Serpent's Mouth (Boca del Serpiente) - between Trinidad
    Trinidad and Tobago

    The Republic of Trinidad and Tobago is an island country in the southern Caribbean, lying northeast of the South American country of Venezuela and south of Grenada in the Lesser Antilles....
     and Venezuela
    Venezuela

    Venezuela , officially the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela , is a country on the northern coast of South America.The country comprises a continental mainland and numerous islands located off the Venezuelan coastline in the Caribbean Sea....
  • Skagerrak
    Skagerrak

    The Skagerrak strait runs between Norway and the southwest coast of Sweden and the Jutland of Denmark, connecting the North Sea and the Kattegat strait, which leads to the Baltic Sea....
     separating Denmark
    Denmark

    Denmark is a Scandinavian country in northern Europe and the senior member of the Kingdom of Denmark. It is the southernmost of the Nordic countries....
     from Norway
    Norway

    Norway , officially the Kingdom of Norway, is a constitutional monarchy in Northern Europe that occupies the western portion of the Scandinavian Peninsula....
     and Sweden
    Sweden

    Sweden , officially the Kingdom of Sweden , is a Nordic countries on the Scandinavian Peninsula in Northern Europe. Sweden has land borders with Norway to the west and Finland to the northeast, and it is connected to Denmark by the ?resund Bridge in the south....
  • Shelikof Strait
    Shelikof Strait

    Shelikof Strait is a strait on the southwestern coast of the U.S. state of Alaska between the Alaska mainland to the west and Kodiak Island and Afognak islands to the east....
     - between mainland Alaska
    Alaska

    Alaska is the largest U.S. state of the United States by area; it is situated in the northwest extremity of the North American continent, with Canada to the east, the Arctic Ocean to the north, and the Pacific Ocean to the west and south, with Russia further west across the Bering Strait....
     and Kodiak Island
    Kodiak Island

    Kodiak Island is a large island on the south coast of the U.S. state of Alaska, separated from the Alaska mainland by the Shelikof Strait. The largest island in the Kodiak Archipelago and at 8975 km? in area, it is the List of islands of the United States by area and the List of islands by area....
  • Shimonoseki Strait
  • Strait of Dover
    Strait of Dover

    The Strait of Dover or Dover Strait is the strait at the narrowest part of the English Channel. The shortest distance across the strait is from the South Foreland, some 6 kilometres north-east of Dover in the county of Kent, England, to Cap Gris Nez, a Headlands and bays near to Calais in the French of Pas-de-Calais, Franc...
     - part of the English Channel
    English Channel

    The English Channel is an Arm of the Atlantic Ocean that separates England from northern France, and joins the North Sea to the Atlantic. It is about long and varies in width from at its widest, to only in the Strait of Dover....
     between Great Britain
    Great Britain

    Great Britain is an island lying to the northwest of Continental Europe. It is the List of islands by area, and the largest in Europe. With a population of 58.9 million people it is List of islands by population....
     and France
    France

    France , officially the French Republic , is a country whose Metropolitan France is located in Western Europe and that also comprises various Overseas departments and territories of France....
  • Strait of Sicily
    Strait of Sicily

    File:Strait of Sicily map.pngThe Strait of Sicily is the strait between Sicily and Tunisia. It is about 100 miles wide and divides the Tyrrhenian Sea and the western Mediterranean Sea from the eastern Mediterranean....
     - between Sicily
    Sicily

    Sicily is an Autonomous regions with special statute of Italy. Of all the regions of Italy, Sicily covers the largest land area at 25,708 km? and currently has just over five million inhabitants....
     and Africa
    Africa

    Africa is the world's second-largest and second most-populous continent, after Asia. At about 30.2 million km? including adjacent islands, it covers 6% of the Earth's total surface area and 20.4% of the total land area....
  • Singapore Strait
    Singapore Strait

    The Singapore Strait is a 105 kilometer long, 16 kilometer wide strait between the Strait of Malacca in the west and the South China Sea in the east....
     - between Singapore
    Singapore

    Singapore , officially the Republic of Singapore, is an island country microstate located at the southern tip of the Malay Peninsula. It lies 137 kilometres north of the equator, south of the Malaysian state of Johor and north of Indonesia's Riau Islands....
     and Indonesia
    Indonesia

    The Republic of Indonesia , is a transcontinental country in Southeast Asia and Oceania. Comprising Islands of Indonesia, it is the world's largest Archipelago state....
     (Sumatra
    Sumatra

    Sumatra is an island in western Indonesia, westernmost of the Sunda Islands. It is the largest island entirely in Indonesia , and the list of islands by area in the world ....
    )
  • Smith Strait
  • The Solent - between the Isle of Wight
    Isle of Wight

    The Isle of Wight is an England island and county, located 3-8 km from the south coast of the mainland, in the English Channel. It is situated south of the county of Hampshire and is separated from mainland Britain by the Solent....
     and the mainland of southern England
    England

    native_name =|conventional_long_name = England|common_name = England|image_flag = Flag of England.svg|image_coat = England COA.svg|symbol_type = Royal Coat of Arms...
  • Soya Strait or La Pérouse Strait
    La Perouse Strait

    La P?rouse Strait is a strait dividing the southern part of the Russian island of Sakhalin from the northern part of the Japanese island of Hokkaido, and connecting the Sea of Japan on the west with the Sea of Okhotsk on the east....
     is a strait dividing Sakhalin
    Sakhalin

    Sakhalin , also Saghalien, is a large elongated island in the North Pacific, lying between 45?50' and 54?24' N. It is part of Russia and is its largest island, administered as part of Sakhalin Oblast....
     (Karafuto) from Hokkaido
    Hokkaido

    , formerly known as Ezo, Yezo, Yeso, or Yesso, is Japan's second largest island and the largest, northernmost of its 47 prefectures of Japan....
  • Sumba Strait
    Sumba Strait

    Sumba Strait is a strait in Indonesia.It separates the island of Sumba from the major islands of Flores and Sumbawa, as well as minor islands including Komodo and Rinca....
     - between Flores
    Flores

    Flores is one of the Lesser Sunda Islands, an island arc with an estimated area of 14,300 km? extending east from the Java island of Indonesia....
     and Sumba
    Sumba

    Sumba is an island in Indonesia, and is one of the Lesser Sunda Islands. It has an area of 11,153 km?, and the population was officially at 611,422 in 2005....
    , Indonesia
    Indonesia

    The Republic of Indonesia , is a transcontinental country in Southeast Asia and Oceania. Comprising Islands of Indonesia, it is the world's largest Archipelago state....
  • Sunda Strait
    Sunda Strait

    The Sunda Strait is the strait between the Indonesian islands of Java island and Sumatra. It connects the Java Sea to the Indian Ocean. The name comes from the Indonesian term Pasundan, "West Java"....
     - between Sumatra
    Sumatra

    Sumatra is an island in western Indonesia, westernmost of the Sunda Islands. It is the largest island entirely in Indonesia , and the list of islands by area in the world ....
     and Java
  • Surigao Strait
    Surigao Strait

    Surigao Strait is a body of water in the Philippines located between the islands of Mindanao and Leyte . This strait connects the Bohol Sea with Leyte Gulf and is regularly crossed by ferry that transport goods and people between Visayas and Mindanao....
     - between Leyte and Mindanao
    Mindanao

    Mindanao is the second largest and easternmost island in the Philippines. It is also one of the three island groups in the country, along with Luzon and Visayas....
     islands in the Philippines
    Philippines

    The Philippines, officially known as the Republic of the Philippines, is a country in Southeast Asia with Manila as its capital city. It comprises 7,107 islands in the western Pacific Ocean....
  • The Swale
    The Swale

    The name The Swale refers to the strip of sea separating North Kent from the Isle of Sheppey....
     - between the Isle of Sheppey
    Isle of Sheppey

    The Isle of Sheppey is an island off the northern coast of Kent, England in the Thames Estuary, some 38 miles to the east of central London. It has an area of 36 square miles ....
     and the mainland of southern England
    England

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T

  • Tablas Strait
    Tablas Strait

    Tablas Strait is a strait in the Philippines, at . It separates the Mindoro and Panay Island islands....
     - between Mindoro
    Mindoro

    Mindoro is the seventh-largest island in the Philippines. It is located southwest of Luzon, and northeast of Palawan. In past times, it has been called Ma-i or Mait by ancient China traders and, by Spain, as Mina de Oro from where the island got its current name....
     and Panay
    Panay Island

    Panay is an island in the Philippines located in the Visayas. Politically, it is divided into four Provinces of the Philippines: Aklan Province, Antique Province, Capiz, and Iloilo Province, all in the Western Visayas Regions of the Philippines....
     islands in the Philippines
    Philippines

    The Philippines, officially known as the Republic of the Philippines, is a country in Southeast Asia with Manila as its capital city. It comprises 7,107 islands in the western Pacific Ocean....
  • Tacoma Narrows
    Tacoma Narrows

    The Tacoma Narrows , a strait, is part of Puget Sound in the U.S. state of Washington. A navigable maritime waterway between glacial landforms, the Narrows separates the Kitsap Peninsula from the city of Tacoma, Washington....
     - Puget Sound
    Puget Sound

    Puget Sound is an inland marine complex of waterways from the Pacific Ocean, connected to the rest of the Pacific by the Strait of Juan de Fuca, in the Pacific Northwest of the United States....
  • Taiwan Strait
    Taiwan Strait

    The Taiwan Strait or Formosa Strait is a 180-km-wide strait between mainland China and Taiwan. The strait is part of the South China Sea and connects to East China Sea to the northeast....
     - between Taiwan
    Taiwan

    Taiwan is an island in East Asia. "Taiwan" is also commonly used to refer to the country governed by the Republic of China and to the ROC itself, which governs the island of Taiwan, Orchid Island and Green Island, Taiwan in the Pacific Ocean off the Taiwan coast, the Penghu islands in the Taiwan Strait, and Kinmen and the Matsu Islands...
     and Mainland China
    Mainland China

    Mainland China, Continental China, the Chinese mainland or simply the mainland, is a geopolitical term refers to the area under the jurisdiction of the People's Republic of China , excluding Hong Kong and Macau, which run on One Country, Two Systems....
  • Tanon Strait
    Tañon Strait

    Ta?on Strait lies between the islands of Negros and Cebu Island in the Philippines. The strait connects the Visayan Sea to the Bohol Sea.On February 7, 2008 the Supreme Court of the Philippines ordered the Department of Environment and Natural Resources and the Department of Energy to comment on a certiorari petition filed for toothed whale...
     - between Negros
    Negros

    Negros is an island of the Philippines located in the Visayas, at . It is the third-largest island in the country, with a land area of 13,328 km? ....
     and Cebu
    Cebu Island

    Cebu is an island of the Philippines. It is the main island of Cebu Province in Visayas.It lies to the east of Negros; to the east is Leyte and to the southeast is Bohol Island....
     islands in the Philippines
    Philippines

    The Philippines, officially known as the Republic of the Philippines, is a country in Southeast Asia with Manila as its capital city. It comprises 7,107 islands in the western Pacific Ocean....
  • Strait of Tartary
    Strait of Tartary

    Strait of Tartary is a strait in the Pacific Ocean dividing the Russian island of Sakhalin from mainland Asia , connecting the Sea of Okhotsk on the north with the Sea of Japan on the south....
     (also Mamiya Strait and Strait of Nevelskoi) - Sakhalin
    Sakhalin

    Sakhalin , also Saghalien, is a large elongated island in the North Pacific, lying between 45?50' and 54?24' N. It is part of Russia and is its largest island, administered as part of Sakhalin Oblast....
  • Strait of Tiran - between the Sinai peninsula
    Sinai Peninsula

    The Sinai Peninsula or Sinai is a triangular peninsula in Egypt. It lies between the Mediterranean Sea to the north and the Red Sea to the south, forming a land bridge between Africa and Southwest Asia....
     and Saudi Arabia
    Saudi Arabia

    The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, KSA , is an Arab country and the largest country of the Arabian Peninsula. It is bordered by Jordan on the northwest, Iraq on the north and northeast, Kuwait, Qatar, Bahrain, and the United Arab Emirates on the east, Oman on the southeast, and Yemen on the south....
  • Torres Strait
    Torres Strait

    The Torres Strait is a body of water which lies between Australia and the Melanesian island of New Guinea. It is approximately 150 kilometre wide at its narrowest extent....
     - between New Guinea
    New Guinea

    New Guinea, located just north of Australia, is the List of islands by area, having become separated from the Australian mainland when the area now known as the Torres Strait flooded after the last glacial period....
     and Australia
    Australia

    Australia, officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country in the southern hemisphere comprising the Australia of the world's smallest continent, the major island of Tasmania, and numerous list of islands of Australia in the Indian Ocean and Pacific Oceans....
  • Tsugaru Strait
    Tsugaru Strait

    is a Channel between Honshu and Hokkaido in northern Japan connecting the Sea of Japan with the Pacific Ocean. It was named after the western part of Aomori Prefecture....
     - between Hokkaido
    Hokkaido

    , formerly known as Ezo, Yezo, Yeso, or Yesso, is Japan's second largest island and the largest, northernmost of its 47 prefectures of Japan....
     and Honshu
    Honshu

    or Honshu is the largest island of Japan. The nation's main island, it is south of Hokkaido across the Tsugaru Strait, north of Shikoku across the Inland Sea, and northeast of Kyushu across the Kanmon Strait....
  • Tsushima Strait
    Tsushima Strait

    is the eastern channel of the Korea Strait, which lies between Korea and Japan, connecting the Sea of Japan and the East China Sea.The Tsushima Strait is the broader eastern channel to the east and southeast of Tsushima Island, with the Japanese islands of Honshu to the east and northeast, and Kyushu and the Goto Islands to the south and south...
     - between Iki Island and Korean Peninsula


V

  • Vitiaz Strait
    Vitiaz Strait

    Vitiaz Strait is a strait between Long Island, Papua New Guinea and New Guinea.Long Island was charted in 1643 by Abel Tasman but he mistook it for part of the New Guinea mainland and he did not enter the strait....
     - between New Guinea
    New Guinea

    New Guinea, located just north of Australia, is the List of islands by area, having become separated from the Australian mainland when the area now known as the Torres Strait flooded after the last glacial period....
     and Long Island
    Long Island, Papua New Guinea

    Long Island is a volcanic island north of Papua New Guinea. It is separated from the island of New Guinea by Vitiaz Strait....


W

  • Wantsum Channel
    Wantsum Channel

    The Wantsum Channel is the name given to a now silted-up watercourse separating the Isle of Thanet and what was the mainland of the England county of Kent....
     - former channel between the Isle of Thanet
    Isle of Thanet

    The Isle of Thanet lies at the most easterly point of Kent, England. Archaeological remains testify to the fact that ancient peoples lived here....
     and the mainland of southern England
    England

    native_name =|conventional_long_name = England|common_name = England|image_flag = Flag of England.svg|image_coat = England COA.svg|symbol_type = Royal Coat of Arms...
     – now drained, and Thanet now only separated from the mainland by the River Wantsum
    River Wantsum

    The River Wantsum is one of the source rivers of the River Stour, Kent, in Kent, England. Formerly, this was the Wantsum Channel which separated the Isle of Thanet from the mainland of Kent....
    , a minor drainage channel
  • Windward Passage
    Windward Passage

    The Windward Passage is a strait in the Caribbean Sea, between the islands of Cuba and Hispaniola. The strait specifically lies between the easternmost region of Cuba and the northwest of Haiti....
     - between Cuba
    Cuba

    The Republic of Cuba is a country in the Caribbean. It consists of the island of Cuba , the island of Isla de la Juventud, and several adjacent small islands....
     and Hispaniola
    Hispaniola

    Hispaniola is the second-largest and most populous island of the Antilles, lying between the islands of Cuba to the west, and Puerto Rico to the east....


Y

  • Yucatan Channel
    Yucatán Channel

    The Yucat?n Channel is a strait between Mexico and Cuba. It connects the Caribbean Sea with the Gulf of Mexico.See also*List of straits...
     - between Mexico
    Mexico

    The United Mexican States , commonly known as Mexico , is a federalism constitutionalism republic in North America. It is bordered on the north by the United States; on the south and west by the Pacific Ocean; on the southeast by Guatemala, Belize, and the Caribbean Sea; and on the east by the Gulf of Mexico....
     and Cuba
    Cuba

    The Republic of Cuba is a country in the Caribbean. It consists of the island of Cuba , the island of Isla de la Juventud, and several adjacent small islands....


See also