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Straits & channels

53 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.

53 straits, channels & passages that join the seas. Free to play, with no account needed. What you miss comes back for review until it sticks.

The straits

  1. 1Strait of Hormuz
  2. 2Bosporus
  3. 3English Channel
  4. 4Strait of Gibraltar
  5. 5Bering Strait
  6. 6Dardanelles
  7. 7Strait of Malacca
  8. 8Strait of Magellan
  9. 9Bab-el-Mandeb
  10. 10Mozambique Channel
  11. 11Kattegat
  12. 12Skagerrak
  13. 13Taiwan Strait
  14. 14Drake Passage
  15. 15Kerch Strait
  16. 16Korea Strait
  17. 17Strait of Dover
  18. 18Strait of Otranto
  19. 19Bass Strait
  20. 20Sunda Strait
  21. 21Oresund
  22. 22Denmark Strait
  23. 23Torres Strait
  24. 24Davis Strait
  25. 25Cook Strait
  26. 26Strait of Messina
  27. 27Palk Strait
  28. 28Makassar Strait
  29. 29Straits of Florida
  30. 30Tsugaru Strait
  31. 31Strait of Tartary
  32. 32Hudson Strait
  33. 33La Pérouse Strait
  34. 34Yucatán Channel
  35. 35St George's Channel
  36. 36Strait of Tiran
  37. 37Singapore Strait
  38. 38Strait of Sicily
  39. 39North Channel
  40. 40Great Belt
  41. 41Strait of Bonifacio
  42. 42Little Belt
  43. 43Lombok Strait
  44. 44Luzon Strait
  45. 45Strait of Georgia
  46. 46Fram Strait
  47. 47Windward Passage
  48. 48Strait of Juan de Fuca
  49. 49Qiongzhou Strait
  50. 50Strait of Belle Isle
  51. 51Cabot Strait
  52. 52Mona Passage
  53. 53Northumberland Strait

Ranked by how many Wikipedia language editions have an article on each one (Wikidata sitelinks, September 2026), a proxy for how well known it is. Outlines follow Natural Earth 1:10m marine polygons where they exist, else OpenStreetMap or Marine Regions; the rest are cut from the Natural Earth 1:10m coastline between each strait's usual end lines.

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