Strait of Malacca
The Strait of Malacca is a narrow stretch of water, 900 kilometres long and from 65 to 250 km wide, between the Malay Peninsula to the northeast and the Indonesian island of Sumatra to the southwest, connecting the Andaman Sea and the South China Sea.| Tap on a place to explore it |
- Type: Strait
- Description: strait between the Malay Peninsula and the Indonesian island of Sumatra
- Also known as: “Kra Strait”, “Malacca Strait”, and “Strait of Kra”
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Lhokseumawe.
Lhokseumawe
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Lhokseumawe, is the second largest city in Aceh province, Indonesia, having recently overtaken Langsa. The city covers a land area of 181.06 square kilometres, and had a population of 171,163 at the 2010 census and 188,713 at the 2020 census; the official estimate as of mid 2024 was 198,705.
Strait of Malacca
- Categories: sound and body of water
- Location: Aceh, Sumatra, Indonesia, Southeast Asia, Asia
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Achinese to Yue Chinese—“Strait of Malacca” goes by many names.
- Achinese: “Seulat Malaka”
- Afrikaans: “Straat van Malakka”
- Arabic: “مضيق ملقا”
- Arabic: “مضيق ملقة”
- Armenian: “Մալակկայի նեղուց”
- Asturian: “Estrechu de Malaca”
- Azerbaijani: “Malakka boğazı”
- Balinese: “Selat Malaka”
- Bashkir: “Малакка боғаҙы”
- Basque: “Malakako itsasartea”
- Belarusian: “Малакскі праліў”
- Belarusian: “Малацкая пратока”
- Bengali: “মালাক্কা প্রণালি”
- Bengali: “মালাক্কা প্রণালী”
- Bosnian: “Malajski prolaz”
- Breton: “Strizh-mor Malaka”
- Breton: “Strizh-mor Melaka”
- Bulgarian: “Малайски проток”
- Bulgarian: “Малака”
- Bulgarian: “Малакски проток”
- Bulgarian: “Пролива Малака”
- Burmese: “မလက္ကာရေလက်ကြား”
- Catalan: “estret de Malaca”
- Catalan: “Estret de Malaca”
- Cebuano: “Selat Malaka (estretso)”
- Cebuano: “Selat Malaka”
- Central Kurdish: “دەربەندی مالاکا”
- Chinese: “Malacca Hái-kiap”
- Chinese: “馬六甲海峽”
- Chinese: “马六甲海峡”
- Chinese: “麻六甲海峽”
- Croatian: “Malajski prolaz”
- Czech: “Malacký průliv”
- Danish: “Malaccastrædet”
- Danish: “Malakkastrædet”
- Dutch: “Straat Malacca”
- Dutch: “Straat Malakka”
- Dutch: “Straat van Malacca”
- Dutch: “Straat van Malakka”
- Esperanto: “Malaka Markolo”
- Estonian: “Malaka väin”
- Faroese: “Malakkafjørður”
- Finnish: “Malakan salmi”
- Finnish: “Malakansalmi”
- French: “détroit de Kra”
- French: “détroit de Malacca”
- French: “Détroit de Malacca”
- Galician: “Estreito de Malaca”
- Georgian: “მალაკის სრუტე”
- German: “Malakka-Straße”
- German: “Malakkastraße”
- German: “Meerenge von Malakka”
- German: “Straße von Malacca”
- German: “Strasse von Malakka”
- German: “Straße von Malakka”
- Gorontalo: “Selat Malaka”
- Greek: “πορθμός της Μαλάκα”
- Greek: “Πορθμός της Μαλάκκα”
- Greek: “Πορθμός της Μαλάκκας”
- Greek: “Στενό της Μαλάκα”
- Hakka Chinese: “Mâ-liuk-kap Hói-hia̍p”
- Hebrew: “מיצר מלקה”
- Hebrew: “מיצרי מאלאקה”
- Hebrew: “מיצרי מאלקה”
- Hebrew: “מיצרי מלקה”
- Hebrew: “מצר מלאקה”
- Hebrew: “מצר מלקה”
- Hebrew: “מצרי מאלאקה”
- Hebrew: “מצרי מאלקה”
- Hebrew: “מצרי מלקה”
- Hindi: “मलक्का जलडमरूमध्य”
- Hindi: “मलक्का जलसंधि”
- Hindi: “मलक्का जलसन्धि”
- Hungarian: “Malacca-szoros”
- Hungarian: “Malaka-szoros”
- Iban: “Selat Melaka”
- Icelandic: “Malakkasund”
- Ido: “Stretajo di Malaka”
- Indonesian: “Selat Kra”
- Indonesian: “Selat Malaka”
- Indonesian: “Sempitan Malaka”
- Italian: “Stretto di Malacca”
- Japanese: “シンガポール海峡”
- Japanese: “マラッカ海峡”
- Javanese: “Selat Malaka”
- Javanese: “Selat Melaka”
- Kannada: “ಮಲಕ್ಕಾ ಜಲಸಂಧಿ”
- Khmer: “ច្រកមលក្កា”
- Khmer: “ច្រកម៉ាឡាកា”
- Khmer: “ទ្វារសមុទ្រមលក្កា”
- Kirghiz: “Малакка кысыгы”
- Komering: “Selat Malaka”
- Korean: “말라까 해협”
- Korean: “말라까해협”
- Korean: “말라카 해협”
- Korean: “믈라카 해협”
- Kurdish: “Tengava Malakayê”
- Kurdish: “Tengava Malakka”
- Kurdish: “Tengava Melakayê”
- Latin: “Fretum Malaccense”
- Latvian: “Malakas šaurums”
- Literary Chinese: “馬六甲海峽”
- Lithuanian: “Malakos sąsiauris”
- Luxembourgish: “Strooss vu Malakka”
- Macedonian: “Малачки Проток”
- Malay: “Selat Melaka”
- Malay: “سلت ملاک”
- Malayalam: “Malacca Strait”
- Malayalam: “മലാക്കാ കടലിടുക്ക്”
- Marathi: “मलाक्का सामुद्रधुनी”
- Marathi: “मलाक्काची सामुद्रधुनी”
- Marathi: “मलाक्क्याची सामुद्रधुनी”
- Min Dong Chinese: “Mā-lăk-gă Hāi-hiĕk”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Malacca Hái-kiap”
- Minangkabau: “Selat Malaka”
- Mingrelian: “მალაკიშ საროტი”
- Newari: “मलक्का जलसन्धि”
- Northern Frisian: “Struat faan Malakka”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Malaccastredet”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Malakkastredet”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Malakkasundet”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Malakkasundet”
- Norwegian: “Malakkastredet”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Estrech de Malaca”
- Panjabi: “ਮਲੱਕਾ ਪਣਜੋੜ”
- Persian: “تنگه مالاکا”
- Persian: “تنگه ملاکا”
- Persian: “تنگه ی ملاکا”
- Persian: “تنگهی ملاکا”
- Persian: “خلیج عقبه”
- Polish: “Cieśnina Malakka”
- Portuguese: “Estreito de Malaca”
- Portuguese: “Estreito de Málaca”
- Romanian: “Strâmtoarea Malacca”
- Russian: “Малайский пролив”
- Russian: “Малаккский пролив”
- Russian: “Малакский пролив”
- Russian: “Молуккский пролив”
- Santali: “ᱢᱟᱞᱟᱠᱠᱟ ᱮᱥᱴᱮᱨᱮᱴ”
- Saraiki: “آبنائے ملاکا”
- Scots: “Strait o Malacca”
- Serbian: “Малајски мореуз”
- Serbian: “Малајски пролаз”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Malajski prolaz”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Malajski tjesnac”
- Slovak: “Malacký prieliv”
- Slovak: “Malakkský prieliv”
- Slovak: “Melacký prieliv”
- Slovenian: “Melaški preliv”
- Spanish: “Estrecho de Malaca”
- Spanish: “Estrecho de Melaka”
- Swahili: “Mlango wa Malakka”
- Swedish: “Malackasundet”
- Swedish: “Selat Malaka (sund)”
- Tagalog: “Kipot ng Malacca”
- Tagalog: “Kipot ng Malaka”
- Tamil: “மலாக்கா நீரிணை”
- Tamil: “மலாக்கா நீரிணைவு”
- Tamil: “மலாக்கா ஜலசந்தி”
- Tatar: “Малакка бугазы”
- Telugu: “క్రా జలసంధి”
- Telugu: “మలక్కా జలసంధి”
- Thai: “ช่องแคบกระ”
- Thai: “ช่องแคบมะละกา”
- Tibetan: “མ་ལིའུ་ཅ་མཚོ་འགག”
- Turkish: “Malacca Boğazı”
- Turkish: “Malaka Boğazı”
- Turkish: “Malakka Boğazı”
- Ukrainian: “Малаккська протока”
- Urdu: “آبنائے ملاکا”
- Urdu: “آبنائے ملکا”
- Uzbek: “Malakka bo‘g‘ozi”
- Uzbek: “Malakka Bo‘g‘ozi”
- Uzbek: “Malakka bo’g’ozi”
- Uzbek: “Malakka Bo’g’ozi”
- Uzbek: “Malakka bo`g`ozi”
- Uzbek: “Malakka Bo`g`ozi”
- Uzbek: “Malakka boʻgʻozi”
- Uzbek: “Malakka Boʻgʻozi”
- Vietnamese: “eo biển Ma-lắc-ca”
- Vietnamese: “eo biển Malacca”
- Vietnamese: “Eo biển Malacca”
- Waray (Philippines): “Estrecho han Malacca”
- Waray (Philippines): “Strait of Malacca”
- Waray (Philippines): “Suláng han Malacca”
- Welsh: “Culfor Malacca”
- Western Frisian: “Strjitte fan Malakka”
- Western Frisian: “Strjitte Malakka”
- Western Panjabi: “آبنائے ملاکا”
- Wu Chinese: “馬六甲海峽”
- Yue Chinese: “馬六甲海峽”
Localities in the Area
Explore places such as Hago and Hagu Teungoh.
Notable Places Nearby
Highlights include Ujung Blanghago and Krueng Cunda River.
Aceh: Must-Visit Destinations
Delve into Banda Aceh, Lhokseumawe, Sabang, and Meulaboh.
Curious Straits to Discover
Uncover intriguing straits from every corner of the globe.
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