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The Bab-el-Mandeb 'Gate of Lamentation' or the Gate of Grief

the Bab al-Mandab strait is a strait between Yemen on the Arabian Peninsula and Djibouti and Eritrea in the Horn of Africa.

connecting the Red Sea to the Gulf of Aden and the Indian Ocean.

The Bab-el-Mandeb is also a sub-region in the Arab League, which includes Djibouti, Yemen, and Eritrea.

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Morocco and Spain are separated by the Strait of Gibraltar.

It is a narrow passage connecting the Atlantic Ocean to the Mediterranean Sea.

It is with a minimum width of about 13 kilometers (8 miles).

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The Strait of Malacca separates Malay Peninsula (Malaysia) and Sumatra (Indonesia), and connects the Andaman Sea with the South China Sea.

It is a crucial maritime route for global shipping.

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The Strait of Gibraltar connects two large water bodies, the Atlantic Ocean & Mediterranean Sea.

they lie between southernmost Spain and northwesternmost Africa.

The Strait of Gibraltar is located in the Iberian Peninsula (Spain)

The Sea separates Europe from Africa

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The Strait Gibraltar connects two large water bodies, the Atlantic Ocean & Mediterranean Sea.

The Mediterranean Sea lies between Southern Europe and North Africa and accounts for about 0.7% of the global ocean area.

Mediterranean Sea stretches from the Atlantic Ocean on the west to Asia on the east and separates Europe from Africa.

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Strait of Hormuz connect Arabian sea with the Persian Gulf.

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Strait stand for a narrow passage of water connecting two seas or two other large areas of water.

Gulf Stand for a deep inlet of the sea almost surrounded by land, with a narrow mouth.

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The Strait of Messina is a channel in the Mediterranean Sea separating Sicily (west) and Italy (east)

Linking the Tyrrhenian and Ionian seas

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The Strait of Hormuz separates Iran to the north and the Musandam Governorate of Oman and the United Arab Emirates to the south.

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Strait

A narrow passage of water connecting two seas or two other large areas of water.

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• Palk Strait, inlet of the Bay of Bengal among southeastern India and northern Sri Lanka. it's far bounded at the south with the aid of Pamban Island (India), Adam’s (Rama’s) Bridge (a sequence of shoals), the Gulf of Mannar, and Mannar Island (Sri Lanka).
• The southwestern part of the strait is likewise known as Palk Bay.
• The strait is forty to eighty five miles (64 to 137 km) wide, 85 miles long, and less than 330 toes (a hundred metres) deep.
• It gets numerous rivers, along with the Vaigai (India), and it incorporates many islands at the Sri Lankan side.
• The port of Jaffna, the commercial centre for northern Sri Lanka, lies at the strait.