Major Strait of the World

• A Strait is a narrow channel of the sea joining two larger bodies of water. 
• It most commonly refers to a channel of water that lies between two land masses. 
• It is used for international navigation through the territorial sea between one part of the high seas or an exclusive economic zone and another part of the high seas or an exclusive economic zone are subject to the legal regime of transit passage.
• The Straits have commercial and strategic importance. 
• Bering, Gibraltar, Bab-el-Mandeb, Bosporus and Torres, etc. are straits which separates the continents. 
• Gibraltar is also known as ‘the key to the Mediterranean Sea’.
• There is a railway tunnel which joins landmasses through straits like Tsungaru and Dover.

Here we are providing the list of the World’s major Straits that will give you the idea about , how these straits connect the world.

Strait	Joins	Location
Malacca Strait	Andaman Sea & South China Sea	Indonesia –Malaysia
Palk Strait	Palk Bay & Bay of Bengal	India-Sri Lanka
Sunda Strait	Java Sea & Indian Ocean	Indonesia
Yucatan Strait	Gulf of Mexico and Caribbean Sea	Mexico-Cuba
Mesina Strait	Mediterranean Sea	Italy-Sicily
Otranto Strait	Adriatic Sea & Ionian Sea	Italy-Albania
Bab-el-Mandeb Strait	Red Sea & Gulf of Aden	Yemen-Djibouti
Cook Strait	South Pacific Ocean	New Zealand (North & South Islands)
Mozambique Strait	Indian Ocean	Mozambique -Malagasy
North Channel	Irish Sea & Atlantic Ocean	Ireland-England
Taurus Strait	Arafura Sea & Gulf of Papua	Papua New Guinea — Australia
Bass Strait	Tasman Sea & South Sea	Australia
Bering Strait	Bering Sea & Chuksi Sea	Alaska-Russia
Bonne-Fasio Strait	Mediterranean Sea	Corsika — Sardinia
Bosporous Strait	Black Sea and Marmara Sea	Turkey
Dardenleez Strait	Marmara Sea and Agean Sea	Turkey
Davis Strait	Baffin Bay & Atlantic Ocean	Greenland-Canada
Denmark Strait	North Atlantic and Arctic Ocean	Greenland-Iceland
Dover strait	English Channel & North Sea	England-France
Florida Strait	Gulf of Mexico and Atlantic Ocean	USA-Cuba
Hormuz Strait	Gulf of Persia & Gulf of Oman	Oman-Iran
Hudson strait	Gulf of Hudson & Atlantic Ocean	Canada
Gibraltar Strait	Mediterranean Sea & Atlantic Ocean	Spain-Morocco
Magellan strait	Pacific and South Atlantic Ocean	Chile
Makkassar Strait	Java Sea & Celebeze Sea	Indonesia
Tsungaru Strait	Japan Sea and Pacific Ocean	Japan (Hokkaido-Honshu Island)
Tatar Strait	Japan Sea & Okhotsk Sea	Russia (East Russia-Sakhalin Islands)
Fovex Strait	South Pacific Ocean	New Zealand (South Island- Stewart Island)
Formosa Strait	South China Sea & East China Sea	China-Taiwan