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Straits of Southeast Asia (6 C) Straits of Asia by country (15 C) B. Bab-el-Mandeb (1 C, 14 P) H. Strait of Hormuz (1 C, 13 P) K. Straits of Krasnoyarsk Krai (1 C, 3 ...
Europe and Asia Davis Strait: Baffin Island and Greenland: Deception Pass: Puget Sound: Denmark Strait: Greenland and Iceland: La Désirade Passage: Guadeloupe: Detroit River: Connects Lake St. Clair and Lake Erie. Separates the province of Ontario, Canada, and the state of Michigan, USA (The word "détroit" is French for "strait".) Dixon Entrance
Category: Straits of Asia by country. 8 languages. ... Straits of South Korea (5 P) Straits of Sri Lanka (1 C, 1 P) T. Straits of Taiwan (1 C, 4 P) Straits of ...
The Taiwan Strait is a 180-kilometer (110 mi; 97 nmi)-wide strait separating the island of Taiwan and the Asian continent. The strait is part of the South China Sea and connects to the East China Sea to the north. The narrowest part is 130 km (81 mi; 70 nmi) wide. [1]
Throughout the Middle Ages and into the 18th century, the traditional division of the landmass of Eurasia into two continents, Asia and Europe, followed Ptolemy, with the boundary following the Turkish Straits, the Black Sea, the Kerch Strait, the Sea of Azov and the Don (known in antiquity as the Tanais).
The Strait of Malacca is a narrow stretch of water, 800 kilometres (500 mi) long and from 65 to 250 km (40–155 mi) wide, between the Malay Peninsula to the northeast and the Indonesian island of Sumatra to the southwest, connecting the Andaman Sea (Indian Ocean) and the South China Sea (Pacific Ocean). [2]
The Bering Straits divide Asia from North America. On the southeast of Asia are the Malay Peninsula (the limit of mainland Asia) and Indonesia ("Isles of India", the former East Indies), a vast nation among thousands of islands on the Sunda Shelf, large and small, inhabited and uninhabited. Australia nearby is a different continent.
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