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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 ...
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 ...
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
The Bosporus or Bosphorus Strait (/ ˈ b ɒ s p ər ə s, ˈ b ɒ s f ər ə s / BOSS-pər-əs, BOSS-fər-əs; [a] Turkish: İstanbul Boğazı, lit. 'Istanbul strait', colloquially Boğaz) is a natural strait and an internationally significant waterway located in Istanbul, Turkey.
The Strait of Malacca became an important maritime trade route between India and China. The importance of the Strait of Malacca in global trade networks continued well into later centuries with the rise of the Malacca Sultanate in the 15th century, the Johor Sultanate, the Straits Settlements, and the modern city-state of Singapore.
The Strait of Hormuz (/ h ɔːr ˈ m uː z / Persian: تنگهٔ هُرمُز Tangeh-ye Hormoz listen ⓘ, Arabic: مَضيق هُرمُز Maḍīq Hurmuz) is a strait between the Persian Gulf and the Gulf of Oman. It provides the only sea passage from the Persian Gulf to the open ocean and is one of the world's most strategically important ...
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.
The 1915 Çanakkale Bridge on the Dardanelles strait, connecting Europe and Asia, is the longest suspension bridge in the world. [3]The Straits have had major maritime strategic importance since at least the Mycenaean period, and the narrow crossings between Asia and Europe have provided migration and invasion routes (for Persians, Galatians, and Turks, for example) for even longer.