Straits of planet Earth: table

Below is a table with the main straits of the planet Earth, which includes their names, length, maximum and minimum widths (in kilometers), maximum depth (in meters), as well as what geographical objects they connect and share.

number	Strait name	Length, km	Width, km	Max. depth, m	binds	Separates
1	Bass	500	213 – 250	155	Indian and Pacific Ocean	2	Bab El Mandeb	109	26 – 90	220	Red and Arabian seas	3	Bering	96	35 – 86	49	Chukchi and Bering Seas	Eurasia and North America
4	Boniface	19	11 – 16	69	Tyrrhenian and Mediterranean Seas	The islands of Sardinia and Corsica
5	Bosphorus	30	0,7 – 3,7	120	Black and Marmara Seas	Peninsula Balkan and Anatolia
6	Vilkitsky	130	56 – 80	200	Kara Sea and Laptev Sea	the Taimyr Peninsula and the Severnaya Zemlya archipelago
7	Gibraltar	65	14 – 45	1184	Mediterranean Sea and Atlantic Ocean	8	Hudson	800	65 – 240	942	sea labrador and hudson bay	9	Danish	480	287 – 630	191	Greenland Sea and Atlantic Ocean	Greenland and Iceland
10	Dardanelles (Canakkale)	120	1,3 – 27	153	Aegean Sea with Marmara	11	Davisov	650	300 – 1070	3660	Labrador Sea and Baffin Sea	Greenland and Baffin Island
12	Drake	460	820 – 1120	≈ 5500	Pacific Ocean and Sea of Scotia	Tierra del Fuego and the South Shetland Islands
13	Sunda	130	26 – 105	100	Indian and Pacific Oceans	Java and Sumatra
14	Kattegat	200	60 – 120	50	North and Baltic Seas	peninsula Scandinavian and Jutland
15	Kennedy	130	24 – 32	340	Lincoln and Baffin Sea	Greenland and Ellesmere
16	Kerch	45	4,5 – 15	18	Azov and Black seas	Peninsula Kerch and Taman
17	Korean	324	180 – 388	1092	Sea of Japan and East China Sea	Korea and Japan
18	Cook	107	22 – 91	1092	Pacific Ocean and Tasman Sea	islands North and South
19	Kunashirsky	74	24 – 43	2500	Sea of Okhotsk and Pacific Ocean	Kunashir and Hokkaido Islands
20	Longa	143	146 – 257	50	East Siberian and Chukchi Seas	Wrangel Island and Asia
21	Magellan	575	2,2 – 110	1180	Atlantic and Pacific Oceans	South America and Tierra del Fuego archipelago
22	Malacca	805	2,5 – 40	113	Andaman and South China Seas	23	Mozambican	1760	422 – 925	3292	part of the Indian Ocean	24	Hormuz	167	39 – 96	229	Persian and Ottoman Gulfs	Iran, UAE and Oman
25	Sannikova	238	50 – 65	24	Laptev Sea and East Siberian Sea	Kotelny and Maly Lyakhovsky islands
26	Skagerrak	240	80 – 150	809	North and Baltic Seas	Scandinavian and Jutland peninsulas
27	Tatar	713	40 – 328	1773	Sea of Okhotsk and Sea of Japan	28	Torres	74	150 – 240	100	Arafura and Coral Seas	29	Pas de Calais (Dover)	37	32 – 51	64	North Sea and Atlantic Ocean	UK and Europe
30	Tsugaru (Singaporean)	96	18 – 110	449	Sea of Japan and Pacific Ocean	islands of Hokkaido and Honshu

Note:

Strait – this is a body of water between 2 land areas that connects adjacent water basins or parts of them.

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