Straits of the World

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