The body of water separating the island of Taiwan from mainland China.

a strait separating the Leizhou Peninsula of Guangdong from the island province of Hainan, also known as the Hainan Strait; it connects the Gulf of Tonkin to the South China Sea

The waterway between England and France, connecting the North Sea to the Atlantic Ocean.

Group of islands in the English Channel, located between the French peninsulas of Normandy and Brittany. Administered by the United Kingdom since 1066, they are known for the production of tomatoes, potatoes, and flowers.

The Bering Strait, located between Siberia in Asia and Alaska in North America.

Bashi Channel, a waterway in the northern part of the Luzon Strait, located between Taiwan and the Batan Islands of the Philippines. It is approximately 150 kilometers wide and features a deep ocean trench.

The Bosphorus Strait in western Turkey; connects the Black Sea to the Sea of Marmara and serves as a major commercial and strategic passage between the Black Sea and the Mediterranean.

A sea passage at the southern tip of South America between the mainland and Tierra del Fuego, named after the explorer [[麦哲伦|麥哲倫|mai4 zhe2 lun2]].

Korea Strait or Tsushima Strait, located between Japan and the Korean Peninsula

the Dardanelles; a narrow strait in northwestern Turkey connecting the Aegean Sea to the Sea of Marmara

Øresund, also known as The Sound, which is the strait between Denmark and Sweden

Luzon Strait between Taiwan and Luzon Island (Philippines)

The strait in the English Channel that marks the narrowest part of the English Channel, also known as the Strait of Calais (Pas de Calais)

the body of water that separates southern England from northern France

Bristol Channel in southwest England

the narrow passage of water between Calabria on the Italian mainland and the island of Sicily

The Strait of Otranto, which connects the Adriatic Sea and the Ionian Sea between the coast of Italy and Albania

the Tsushima Strait located between Japan and South Korea

Sunda Strait between Sumatra and Java in Indonesia, Indonesia, connecting the Java Sea to the Indian Ocean

The New Straits Times, a Malaysian English-language newspaper

Straits of Johor, located between Malaysia and Singapore

the Bosphorus, the strait that separates Europe and Asia in Turkey

The two sides of the Taiwan Strait, specifically mainland China and Taiwan; often referred to in shorthand as [[两岸|兩岸|liang3 an4]]

Association for Relations Across the Taiwan Straits; the PRC organization responsible for handling technical and business matters with Taiwan

Straits Exchange Foundation (SEF), a semi-official organization set up by the Taiwan government to handle technical and business matters with mainland China

The Straits Times; the largest English-language daily newspaper in Singapore

body of water between the Leizhou Peninsula in Guangdong and the island of Hainan

The strait in the North Pacific separating the Russian island of Sakhalin from the Russian mainland

narrow stretch of water between the Malay Peninsula and the Indonesian island of Sumatra