GeotchaA geography quiz on a real globe
25 best known straits in the world
25 straits, each one drawn on a satellite globe. Name it when it lights up, find it when you are given its name, or type every one you can remember in Name all.
Free to play, with no account needed. What you miss comes back for review until it sticks.
The straits
- 1Strait of Hormuz
- 2Bosporus
- 3Strait of Gibraltar
- 4Dardanelles
- 5Strait of Malacca
- 6Strait of Magellan
- 7Bab-el-Mandeb
- 8Kattegat
- 9Skagerrak
- 10Taiwan Strait
- 11Drake Passage
- 12Korea Strait
- 13Kerch Strait
- 14Strait of Dover
- 15Strait of Otranto
- 16Sunda Strait
- 17Bass Strait
- 18Denmark Strait
- 19Oresund
- 20Torres Strait
- 21Davis Strait
- 22Cook Strait
- 23Palk Strait
- 24Strait of Messina
- 25Strait of Makassar
How well known each sea area is: the number of Wikipedia language editions with an article on it (Wikidata sitelinks). Sea areas rank by fame because the area of many is not known; rank by area for the largest. Oceans and seas as the IHO’s S-23 draws them, and the bays, gulfs, straits, sounds, firths and inlets inside them from Natural Earth, OpenStreetMap and Wikidata (8 or more Wikipedia editions), each inside its parent (James Bay in Hudson Bay, in the Arctic Ocean). Countries are those whose land lies on the area’s outline; the Bodies of Water and Straits sets’ items keep theirs.
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