Strait of Hormuz
The Strait of Hormuz is a waterway between the Persian Gulf and the Gulf of Oman. On the north coast lies Iran, and on the south coast lies the Musandam Peninsula under the Musandam Governorate of Oman, with a portion of the southwest of the peninsula under the United Arab Emirates.Photo: Ali khodabakhsh, CC BY 3.0.
Photo: U.S. Department of Defense Current Photos, Public domain.
- 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”, “SoH”, “Strait of Hormoz”, “Strait of Ormus”, “Strait of Ormuz”, “Tangeh Hormoz”, and “Tangī Hormuz”
Strait of Hormuz
- Category: body of water
- Location: Musandam Governorate, Oman, Middle East, Asia
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In Other Languages
From Afrikaans to Zulu—“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”
- Bhojpuri: “होर्मुज जलडमरू”
- 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: “kipot sa Hormoz”
- Cebuano: “Strait of Hormuz”
- Central Kurdish: “تەنگەی هورمز”
- Central Kurdish: “گەرووی ھورمز”
- Chechen: “Ормузан хидоькъе”
- Chinese: “Homuz Hái-kiap”
- 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”
- Egyptian Arabic: “مضيق هرمز”
- Esperanto: “Hormoza Markolo”
- Esperanto: “Hormuza Markolo”
- Esperanto: “Markolo de Hormozo”
- Esperanto: “Markolo de Hormuzo”
- Esperanto: “Ormuza markolo”
- 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”
- Hausa: “Mashigar Hormuz”
- 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”
- Iban: “Selat Hormuz”
- Icelandic: “Hormússund”
- Ido: “Stretajo di Hormus”
- Ido: “Stretajo di Hormuz”
- Indonesian: “Selat Hormuz”
- Interlingue: “Marstrette de Hormuz”
- Irish: “Caolas Hormuz”
- Italian: “stretto di 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”
- Kashmiri: “آبناے ہرمُز”
- Kazakh: “Ормуз бұғазы”
- Korean: “호르모즈 해협”
- Korean: “호르무즈 해협”
- Kurdish: “Tengava Hormuz”
- Kurdish: “Tengava Hurmiz”
- Lao: “ຊ່ອງແຄບຮໍມຸສ”
- 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”
- Lombard: “Strecc de Hormuz”
- Luxembourgish: “Strooss vun Hormus”
- Luxembourgish: “Strooss vun Hormuz”
- Macedonian: “Ормуски Проток”
- Malay: “Selat Hormuz”
- Malayalam: “Strait of Hormuz”
- Malayalam: “ഹോർമുസ് കടലിടുക്ക്”
- Malayalam: “ഹോർമൂസ് കടലിടുക്ക്”
- Maltese: “Strett ta‘ Hormuz”
- Maltese: “Strett ta’ Hormuz”
- Marathi: “होर्मुझची सामुद्रधुनी”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Hormuz Hái-kiap”
- Mingrelian: “ჰორმუზიშ საროტი”
- Mon: “ဟောရ်မုဇ် (မြံင်)”
- Mon: “ဟောရ်မုဇ်”
- Mongolian: “Ормузын хоолой”
- Nepali: “हर्मुज जलसन्धि”
- Nepali: “हर्मुज स्ट्रेट”
- Newari: “होर्मुज जलसन्धि”
- Northern Frisian: “Struat faan Hormuz”
- 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”
- Oriya: “ହର୍ମୁଜ ପ୍ରଣାଳୀ”
- 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 تنگی”
- Pushto: “هرمز تنګی”
- Pushto: “هرمز تنگی”
- Romanian: “Ormuz”
- 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”
- Sindhi: “هرمز سامونڊي گذرگاهه”
- Sinhala: “හෝර්මුස් සමුද්ර සන්ධිය”
- Slovak: “Hormuzský prieliv”
- Slovenian: “Hormoška ožina”
- Slovenian: “Hormuška ožina”
- Slovenian: “Hormuški preliv”
- 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”
- Tajik: “Тангаи Ҳурмуз”
- Tamil: “ஓர்முசு நீரிணை”
- Tamil: “ஹோர்முஸ் நீரிணை”
- Tatar: “Ормуз бугазы”
- Telugu: “హార్ముజ్ జలసంధి”
- Thai: “Strait of Hormuz”
- Thai: “Straits of Hormuz”
- Thai: “ช่องแคบฮอร์มุซ”
- Tosk Albanian: “Straße von Hormus”
- Turkish: “Hürmüz Boğazı”
- Ukrainian: “Ормузька протока”
- Ukrainian: “Хормузька протока”
- Urdu: “آبنائے ہرمز”
- Urdu: “ہرمز”
- Uzbek: “Hoʻrmuz boʻgʻozi”
- Vietnamese: “Eo biển Hormuz”
- Vlaams: “Stroate van 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: “Хормуз силбэһиитэ”
- Yakut: “Һормуз силбэһиитэ”
- Yakut: “Һормуз синньигэс күөлэ”
- Yue Chinese: “荷莫茲海峽”
- Zeeuws: “Straet van Hormoez”
- Zulu: “Insungubezi kaHomuzi”
- “होर्मुज जलडमरू”
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