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A strait is a narrow channel of water that connects two larger bodies of water, and thus lies between two land masses. The terms strait, channel, passage, sound, and firth can be synonymous and interchangeable, although each is sometimes differentiated with varying senses. Many straits are economically important. Straits can lie on important shipping routes, and wars have been fought for control of these straits. Numerous artificial channels, called canals, have been constructed to connect two bodies of water over land.

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  • Agate Pass - Puget Sound
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  • Agattu Strait - Aleutians
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  • Akashi Strait - Japan
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  • Amchitka Pass - Aleutians
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  • Anegada Passage - Virgin Islands and Anguilla
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  • Arthur Kill - Staten Island and New Jersey
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  • Bab-el-Mandeb - connects Red Sea to Gulf of Aden / Arabian Sea
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  • Balabac Strait - between Palawan, Philippines and Borneo
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  • Bangka Strait - between Sumatra and Bangka Island
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  • Bass Strait - between mainland Australia and Tasmania
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  • Bering Strait - between Asia and North America
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  • Bohol Strait - also called Cebu Strait, between Bohol and Cebu in the Philippines
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  • Bosporus - between Europe and Asia
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  • Bransfield Strait - between South Shetland Islands and Antarctic Peninsula
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  • Bungo Channel - Japan
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  • Cabot Strait - between Newfoundland and Cape Breton Island
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  • Carquinez Strait - connects San Pablo Bay and Suisun Bay, California
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  • Chatham Strait - between Chichagof Island and Admiralty Island, Alaska
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  • Clarence Strait - between Prince of Wales Island and mainland Alaska
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  • Colvos Passage - Puget Sound
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  • Cook Strait - between the North Island and South Island of New Zealand
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  • Dalco Passage - Puget Sound
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  • Dampier Strait (Indonesia) - between Bird's Head Peninsula and Raja Ampat Islands
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  • Dampier Strait (Papua New Guinea) - between New Britain and Umboi Island
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  • Danish straits - between Scandinavia and Jutland
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  • Dardanelles - between Europe and Asia
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  • Davis Strait - between Baffin Island and Greenland
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  • Deception Pass - Puget Sound
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  • Denmark Strait - between Greenland and Iceland
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  • Detroit River - between Lake St. Clair and Lake Erie
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  • Dolphin and Union Strait - between Northwest Territories and Victoria Island
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  • Dragon's Mouth (Boca del Dragón) - between Trinidad and Venezuela
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  • Drake Passage - between South America and Antarctica
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  • East River - between Manhattan, the Bronx and Long Island
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  • English Channel - between Great Britain and France
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  • Falkland Sound, - between West Falkland and East Falkland
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  • Foveaux Strait - between the South Island and Stewart Island of New Zealand
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  • Fury and Hecla Strait - between Baffin Island and Melville Peninsula,
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  • Golden Gate - between the Marin headlands and San Francisco, California
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  • Great Belt - Denmark
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  • Guadeloupe Passage - north of Guadeloupe, ((West Indies))
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  • Harlem River - between Manhatten and The Bronx
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  • Hecate Strait - between Queen Charlotte Island and British Columbia
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  • Honguedo Strait - between Anticosti Island and Gaspé Peninsula in Quebec
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  • Hoyo Strait - Japan
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  • Hudson Strait - between Baffin Island and Quebec
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  • Johor Strait - between Singapore and the state of Johor of Malaysia
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  • Kalmar Strait - between Öland and Småland
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  • Kanmon Strait - between Honshu and Kyushu
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  • Kara Strait
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  • Karimata Strait - between Sumatra and Borneo
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  • Kerch Strait - between Crimea and Russia
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  • Kill Van Kull - between Staten Island and Bayonne, New Jersey
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  • Kitan Strait - Japan
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  • Korea Strait - between Korea and Japan
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  • Kwangtung Strait
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  • La Perouse Strait (also Soya Strait) - between Sakhalin and Japan
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  • Lancaster Strait
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  • Little Belt - Denmark
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  • Lombok Strait
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  • Luzon Strait - between Taiwan and Luzon, Philippines
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  • Makassar Strait - between Borneo and Sulawesi
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  • Mare Island Strait
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  • Martinique Passage - between Dominica and Martinique
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  • McClure Strait - Melville Island and Banks Island
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  • Menai Strait - between Anglesey and mainland Wales
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  • Mindoro Strait - between Mindoro and Palawan in the Philippines
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  • Mona Passage - between Hispaniola and Puerto Rico
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  • Myeongnyang Strait - between Jindo Island and mainland South Korea
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  • Nares Strait - between Ellesmere Island and Northern Greenland and connects Baffin Bay with Lincoln Sea / the Arctic Sea.
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  • Naruto Strait - Japan
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  • North Channel - between Northern Ireland and Scotland
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  • Northumberland Strait - between Prince Edward Island and New Brunswick/Nova Scotia
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  • Oresund - between Denmark and Sweden
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  • Palk Strait - between India and Sri Lanka
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  • Panama - Between North America and South America (Panama Canal)
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  • Pertuis d'Antioche - on the Atlantic coast of Western France
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  • Pickering Passage - Puget Sound
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  • Port Washington Narrows - Puget Sound
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  • Porte des Morts - between the Bay of Green Bay and Lake Michigan
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  • Qiongzhou Strait - Hainan and Guangdong
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  • Rich Passage - Puget Sound
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  • San Bernardino Strait - between Luzon and Samar in the Philippines
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  • San Juanico Strait - between Samar and Leyte islands in the Philippines
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  • Serpent's Mouth (Boca del Serpiente) - between Trinidad and Venezuela
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  • Shelikof Strait - between mainland Alaska and Kodiak Island
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  • Shimonoseki Strait
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  • Singapore Strait - between Singapore and Indonesia (Sumatra)
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  • Skagerrak between Denmark, Norway and Sweden
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  • Smith Strait
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  • Soya Strait -
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  • Strait of Baltiysk - between Vistula Bay and Gdansk Bay
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  • Strait of Belle Isle - between Newfoundland and mainland Canada
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  • Strait of Bonifacio - between Corsica and Sardinia
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  • Strait of Canso - between Cape Breton Island and mainland Nova Scotia
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  • Strait of Dover - part of the English Channel between Great Britain and France
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  • Strait of Dover or Pas de Calais - (English Channel)
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  • Strait of Georgia - between Vancouver Island and British Columbia
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  • Strait of Gibraltar - between Europe and Africa
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  • Strait of Hormuz - between Arabia and Iran
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  • Strait of Juan de Fuca - between Vancouver Island, Canada and Olympic Peninsula, United States
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  • Strait of Magellan - between South America and Tierra del Fuego
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  • Strait of Messina - between Sicily and mainland Italy
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  • Strait of Otranto - between Italy and Albania
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  • Strait of Sicily - between Sicily and Africa
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  • Strait of Tartary (also Mamiya Strait and Strait of Nevelskoi) - Sakhalin
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  • Strait of Tiran - between the Sinai peninsula and Saudi Arabia
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  • Straits of Florida - between Florida and Cuba
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  • Straits of Mackinac - between Michigan's Upper and Lower Peninsulas
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  • Straits of Malacca - between Malaysia and Sumatra
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  • Sumba Strait - between Flores and Sumba, Indonesia
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  • Sunda Strait - between Sumatra and Java
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  • Surigao Strait - between Leyte and Mindanao islands in the Philippines
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  • Tablas Strait - between Mindoro and Panay islands in the Philippines
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  • Tacoma Narrows - Puget Sound
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  • Taiwan Strait - between Taiwan and Mainland China
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  • Tanon Strait - between Negros and Cebu islands in the Philippines
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  • The Narrows - between Staten Island and Brooklyn in New York City
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  • Torres Strait - between New Guinea and Australia
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  • Tsugaru Strait - between Hokkaido and Honshu
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  • Tsushima Strait - between Iki Island and Korean Peninsula
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  • Vitiaz Strait - between New Guinea and Long Island
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  • Windward Passage - between Cuba and Hispaniola
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  • Yucatan Channel - between Mexico and Cuba

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