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Strait Location Galowa Strait, or Sele Strait: Salawati Island, New Guinea Strait of Georgia: Vancouver Island and mainland British Columbia: Strait of Gibraltar: Europe (Spain) and Africa (Morocco) Golden Gate Strait: Marin County, California and San Francisco – entrance to San Francisco Bay Great Belt: The islands of Zealand and Funen (Denmark)
This is a list of seas of the World Ocean, including marginal seas, areas of water, various gulfs, bights, bays, and straits. [2] In many cases it is a matter of tradition for a body of water to be named a sea or a bay, etc., therefore all these types are listed here.
This category may include: (1) straits that are within the territorial waters of two or more states and (2) straits that are international waters. Subcategories This category has the following 14 subcategories, out of 14 total.
An international strait is a narrow natural waterway connecting two parts of the high seas or exclusive economic zones, used for international navigation.Per the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS), a transit passage regime prevails in such straits for both ships and aircraft with few exceptions, even when the territorial waters of bordering country or countries overlap.
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A world map is a map of most or all of the surface of Earth. World maps, because of their scale, must deal with the problem of projection. Maps rendered in two dimensions by necessity distort the display of the three-dimensional surface of the Earth. While this is true of any map, these distortions reach extremes in a world map.
Image:BlankMap-World.png – World map, Robinson projection centered on the meridian circa 11°15' to east from the Greenwich Prime Meridian. Microstates and island nations are generally represented by single or few pixels approximate to the capital; all territories indicated in the UN listing of territories and regions are exhibited.
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