International straits

The Strait of Hormuz is a waterway between the Persian Gulf and the Gulf of Oman. On the north coast lies Iran, and on the south coast lies the Musandam Peninsula under the Musandam Governorate of Oman, with a portion of the southwest of the peninsula under the United Arab Emirates. The strait is about 104 miles long, with a width varying from about 60 mi to 24 mi.

strait that connects the Atlantic Ocean to the Mediterranean Sea

strait between Asia and North America

strait between the Malay Peninsula and the Indonesian island of Sumatra

The Bab-el-Mandeb (, ) is a strait and a major global chokepoint between Yemen on the Arabian Peninsula and Djibouti and Eritrea in the Horn of Africa, connecting the Red Sea to the Gulf of Aden and by extension the Indian Ocean.

The Kattegat (; ; ) is a sea area bounded by the peninsula of Jutland in the west, the Danish straits islands of Denmark and the Baltic Sea to the south and the Swedish provinces of Bohuslän, Västergötland, Halland and Scania in Sweden in the east. The Baltic Sea drains into the Kattegat through the Danish straits. The sea area is a continuation of the Skagerrak and may be seen as a bay of the North Sea and North Atlantic Ocean, though it is not called a bay in traditional Scandinavian usage.

The Skagerrak (; , , ) is a strait running between the North Jutlandic Island of Denmark, the east coast of Norway and the west coast of Sweden, connecting the North Sea and the Kattegat sea.

strait between mainland China and Taiwan

arm of the Indian Ocean located between the Southeast African countries of Madagascar and Mozambique

strait connecting Azov and Black Seas

sea passage between Japan and South Korea

strait at the narrowest part of the English Channel

strait that connects the Adriatic Sea with the Ionian Sea and separates Italy from Albania

oceanic strait between Greenland to its northwest and Iceland to its southeast

thumb|275px|Aerial view of Øresund and the municipality of Landskrona in Sweden thumb|275px|Øresund Bridge from the air in September 2015 Øresund or Öresund (, ; ; ), commonly known in English as the Sound, is a strait which forms the Danish–Swedish border, separating Zealand (Denmark) from Scania (Sweden). The strait has a length of ; its width varies from to . The narrowest point is between Helsingør in Denmark and Helsingborg in Sweden.

Strait lying between Canada and Greenland

strait which lies between Australia and the Melanesian island of Indonesia

strait between India and Sri Lanka

strait close to Florida, USA

strait between Sakhalin Island and Hokkaidō, Japan

strait between Mexico and Cuba

sea channel between Ireland and Wales, connecting the Irish Sea to the north and the Celtic Sea to the southwest

straits between Sinai peninsula in Egypt and the Saudi Arabian island of Tiran

strait between Indonesia, Malaysia and Singapore

strait in Italy and Tunisia

French-Italian strait between Corsica and Sardinia

strait of Chile and Argentina

strait between Taiwan and Luzon island of the Philippines

strait in Southeast Asia

Canadian/Danish strait

Kvarken ( (as opposed to South Kvarken); ) is the narrow region of the Gulf of Bothnia separating the Bothnian Bay (the inner part of the gulf) from the Bothnian Sea. The distance from the Swedish mainland to the Finnish mainland is around , while the distance between the outermost islands is only . The water depth in the Kvarken region is only around . The region also has an unusual rate of land rising at almost a year.

strait in Estonia and Latvia

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strait between Canada and the United States

Bosporus and Dardanelles straits in Turkey

strait between Germany & Denmark

three channels in Denmark connecting the Baltic Sea to the North Sea

eastern channel of the Korea Strait between Tsushima and Kyushu

part of Nares Strait between Canada and Greenland

arctic sea passage between Greenland and Canada

strait between Borneo and Palawan

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bay in Nares Strait between Canada and Greenland

strait separating Hispaniola and Puerto Rico

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strait in Southeast Asia

strait in Southeast Asia

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strait separating the Philippines and Taiwan

strait on the Canada–United States border between Alaska and British Columbia

bay in Nunavut, Canada

strait between Hokkaido, Japan, and the Kuril Islands administered by Russia

stretch of sea between Finnish Åland and Sweden, forming the passage from the Sea of Åland to the Gulf of Bothnia

strait in Trinidad and Tobago

small gulf and strait in the Aegean Sea

thumb|The old bridge at Svinesund, connecting Sweden and Norway, in August 2003 thumb|The new bridge at Svinesund, connecting Sweden and Norway, in October 2005

strait in the Caribbean

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