Middle East
Oman
Musandam Governorate

Strait of Hormuz

The Strait of Hormuz is a strait between the and the . It provides the only sea passage from the Persian Gulf to the open ocean and is one of the world's most strategically important choke points.
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  • Type: Strait
  • Description: strait between the Gulf of Oman and the Persian Gulf
  • Also known as: “Bāb-e Hormoz”, “Bāb-e-Hormūz”, “Bāb-i-Hormuz”, “Būghāz Hormuz”, “Maḑīq Hurmūz”, “Strait of Hormoz”, “Strait of Ormuz”, “Tangeh Hormoz”, and “Tangī Hormuz”

Strait of Hormuz

Latitude
26.56667° or 26° 34′ north
Longitude
56.25° or 56° 15′ east
Open location code
7HRRH782+M2
Geo­Names ID
287878
Wiki­data ID
Q79883
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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Yue Chinese—“Strait of Hormuz” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “Straat van Hormoes”
  • Albanian: “Ngushtica e Hormuzit”
  • Arabic: “مضيق باب السلام”
  • Arabic: “مضيق هرمز”
  • Arabic: “هرمز”
  • Armenian: “Հորմուզի նեղուց”
  • Armenian: “Օրմուզի նեղուց”
  • Assamese: “হৰমুজ প্ৰণালী”
  • Asturian: “Estrechu d’Ormuz”
  • Azerbaijani: “Hörmüz boğazı”
  • Balinese: “Selat Hormuz”
  • Bashkir: “Һормуз боғаҙы”
  • Basque: “Ormuz itsasartea”
  • Basque: “Ormuzeko itsasartea”
  • Basque: “Ormuzko itsasartea”
  • Belarusian: “Армузскі праліў”
  • Belarusian: “Армуская пратока”
  • Bengali: “হরমুজ প্রণালি”
  • Bengali: “হরমুজ প্রণালী”
  • Bengali: “হর্মুজ প্রণালী”
  • Bosnian: “Hormuški moreuz”
  • Breton: “Strizh-mor Hormuz”
  • Bulgarian: “Ормузки проток”
  • Burmese: “ဟော်မုဇ် ရေလက်ကြား”
  • Catalan: “Estret d’Hormuz”
  • Catalan: “estret d’Ormuz”
  • Catalan: “Estret d’Ormuz”
  • Cebuano: “Strait of Hormuz”
  • Cebuano: “Tangeh-ye Hormoz”
  • Central Kurdish: “تەنگاوی ھورمز”
  • Chechen: “Ормузан хидоькъе”
  • Chinese: “忽路謨斯”
  • Chinese: “忽鲁模斯”
  • Chinese: “忽鲁莫斯”
  • Chinese: “荷姆茲海峽”
  • Chinese: “荷莫茲海峽”
  • Chinese: “赫莫兹海峡”
  • Chinese: “霍尔木兹海峡”
  • Chinese: “霍爾木茲”
  • Chinese: “霍爾木茲海峽”
  • Chuvash: “Ормус пырĕ”
  • Croatian: “Hormuški tjesnac”
  • Croatian: “Hormuz”
  • Czech: “Hormuzský průliv”
  • Danish: “Hormuzstrædet”
  • Dutch: “Straat Hormuz”
  • Dutch: “Straat van Hormoez”
  • Dutch: “Straat van Hormuz”
  • Dutch: “Straat van Ormoes”
  • Esperanto: “Hormoza Markolo”
  • Esperanto: “Hormuza Markolo”
  • Esperanto: “Markolo de Hormozo”
  • Esperanto: “Markolo de Hormuzo”
  • Estonian: “Hormuze väin”
  • Estonian: “Hormuzi väin”
  • Finnish: “Hormuzin salmi”
  • Finnish: “Hormuzinsalmi”
  • French: “Detroit d’Ormuz”
  • French: “détroit d’Ormuz”
  • French: “Détroit d’Ormuz”
  • French: “Ormuz”
  • Galician: “Estreito de Ormuz”
  • Georgian: “ჰორმუზის სრუტე”
  • German: “Meerenge von Hormus”
  • German: “Meerenge von Hormuz”
  • German: “Straße von Hormos”
  • German: “Strasse von Hormus”
  • German: “Straße von Hormus”
  • German: “Strasse von Hormuz”
  • German: “Straße von Hormuz”
  • Greek: “Στενά του Ορμούζ”
  • Greek: “Στενό του Ορμούζ”
  • Hebrew: “מיצר הורמוז”
  • Hebrew: “מצר הורמוז”
  • Hebrew: “מצרי הורמוז”
  • Hindi: “हारमुज जलसन्धि”
  • Hindi: “होरमुज जलडमरुमध्य”
  • Hindi: “होरमुज़ जलसन्धि”
  • Hindi: “होर्मुज जलसन्धि”
  • Hindi: “होर्मुज़ जलसन्धि”
  • Hungarian: “Hormuzi-szoros”
  • Icelandic: “Hormússund”
  • Ido: “Stretajo di Hormus”
  • Ido: “Stretajo di Hormuz”
  • Indonesian: “Selat Hormuz”
  • Irish: “Caolas Hormuz”
  • Italian: “Stretto di Hormuz”
  • Italian: “Stretto di Ormuz”
  • Japanese: “ホルムズ海峡”
  • Japanese: “ホルモズ海峡”
  • Japanese: “忽魯謨斯”
  • Kazakh: “Ормуз бұғазы”
  • Korean: “호르모즈 해협”
  • Korean: “호르무즈 해협”
  • Kurdish: “Tengava Hormuz”
  • Kurdish: “Tengava Hurmiz”
  • Latin: “Fretum Ormus”
  • Latin: “Fretum Ormusense”
  • Latvian: “Hormuza šaurums”
  • Latvian: “Hormuzas šaurums”
  • Latvian: “Hormuzs”
  • Latvian: “Hormūzs”
  • Latvian: “Ormuza šaurums”
  • Latvian: “Ormuzas šaurums”
  • Latvian: “Ormuzs”
  • Latvian: “Ormūzs”
  • Lithuanian: “Hormuzo sąsiauris”
  • Lithuanian: “Hormūzo sąsiauris”
  • Lithuanian: “Ormuzo sąsiauris”
  • Lithuanian: “Ormūzo sąsiauris”
  • Luxembourgish: “Strooss vun Hormus”
  • Luxembourgish: “Strooss vun Hormuz”
  • Macedonian: “Ормуски Проток”
  • Malay: “Selat Hormuz”
  • Malayalam: “Strait of Hormuz”
  • Malayalam: “ഹോർമുസ് കടലിടുക്ക്”
  • Malayalam: “ഹോർമൂസ് കടലിടുക്ക്”
  • Marathi: “होर्मुझची सामुद्रधुनी”
  • Mingrelian: “ჰორმუზიშ საროტი”
  • Mon: “ဟောရ်မုဇ် (မြံင်)”
  • Mon: “ဟောရ်မုဇ်”
  • Mongolian: “Ормузын хоолой”
  • Nepali: “हर्मुज जलसन्धि”
  • Nepali: “हर्मुज स्ट्रेट”
  • Newari: “होर्मुज जलसन्धि”
  • Northern Frisian: “Struat faan Hormus”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Hormuz-stredet”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Hormuzstredet”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Hormuzsundet”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Hormuz-sundet”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Hormuzstredet”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Hormuzsundet”
  • Norwegian: “Hormuzstredet”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Estrech d’Ormuz”
  • Oromo: “Ulaa Hormuuz”
  • Ossetian: “Ормузы донкъубал”
  • Papiamento: “Estrecho di ormuz”
  • Papiamento: “Estrecho di Ormuz”
  • Persian: “تنگه هرمز”
  • Persian: “تنگهٔ هرمز”
  • Polish: “Cieśnina Ormuz”
  • Polish: “Madik Hurmuz”
  • Polish: “Ormuz”
  • Portuguese: “Estreito de Hormuz”
  • Portuguese: “Estreito de Ormuz”
  • Pushto: “د هرمز تنګئ”
  • Romanian: “Strâmtoarea Ormuz”
  • Russian: “Ормузский пролив”
  • Russian: “Хормузский пролив”
  • Santali: “ᱦᱚᱨᱢᱩᱡᱽ ᱱᱟᱞᱟ”
  • Serbian: “Ормуз”
  • Serbian: “Ормуски мореуз”
  • Serbian: “Ормуски пролаз”
  • Serbian: “Хормушки пролаз”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Hormuški tjesnac”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Ormuski moreuz”
  • Sinhala: “හෝර්මුස් සමුද්‍ර සන්ධිය”
  • Slovak: “Hormuzský prieliv”
  • Slovenian: “Hormoška ožina”
  • Slovenian: “Hormuška ožina”
  • Spanish: “Estrecho de Hormuz”
  • Spanish: “Estrecho de Ormuz”
  • Spanish: “Hormuz”
  • Sundanese: “Selat Hormuz”
  • Swahili: “Mlango wa Hormuz”
  • Swedish: “Hormuzsundet”
  • Swedish: “Ormussundet”
  • Swedish: “Ormuzsundet”
  • Swedish: “Tangeh-ye Hormoz”
  • Tagalog: “Kipot ng Hormuz”
  • Tagalog: “Kipot ng Ormuz”
  • Tamil: “ஓர்முசு நீரிணை”
  • Tamil: “ஹோர்முஸ் நீரிணை”
  • Tatar: “Ормуз бугазы”
  • Telugu: “హార్ముజ్ జలసంధి”
  • Thai: “Strait of Hormuz”
  • Thai: “Straits of Hormuz”
  • Thai: “ช่องแคบฮอร์มุซ”
  • Turkish: “Hürmüz Boğazı”
  • Ukrainian: “Ормузька протока”
  • Ukrainian: “Хормузька протока”
  • Urdu: “آبنائے ہرمز”
  • Urdu: “ہرمز”
  • Uzbek: “Hoʻrmuz boʻgʻozi”
  • Vietnamese: “Eo biển Hormuz”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Estrecho han Hormuz”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Suláng han Hormuz”
  • Welsh: “Culfor Hormuz”
  • Western Armenian: “Հորմուզի Նեղուց”
  • Western Frisian: “Strjitte fan Hormuz”
  • Western Frisian: “Strjitte fan Hormûz”
  • Western Panjabi: “آبنائے ہرمز”
  • Wu Chinese: “霍尔木兹海峡”
  • Yakut: “Strait of Hormuz”
  • Yakut: “Ормузский пролив”
  • Yakut: “Һормуз силбэһиитэ”
  • Yakut: “Һормуз синньигэс күөлэ”
  • Yue Chinese: “荷莫茲海峽”

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