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Turkish straits

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Bosporus and Dardanelles straits in Turkey

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Encyclopedic overview

A map depicting the locations of the straits, with the Bosporus in red, and the Dardanelles in yellow. The sovereign national territory of Turkey is highlighted in green.

The Bosphorus (red), the Dardanelles (yellow), and the Sea of Marmara in between, are known collectively as the Turkish straits

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Turkish straits” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.

On the map