{"id":361548,"date":"2026-04-25T16:11:58","date_gmt":"2026-04-25T10:41:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/?p=361548"},"modified":"2026-04-25T16:12:32","modified_gmt":"2026-04-25T10:42:32","slug":"strait-of-malacca","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/strait-of-malacca\/","title":{"rendered":"Strait of Malacca\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>News:<\/strong> <span class=\"hover:entity-accent entity-underline inline cursor-pointer align-baseline\"><span class=\"whitespace-normal\">Indonesia<\/span><\/span> has said it does not plan to charge tolls on ships passing through the <span class=\"hover:entity-accent entity-underline inline cursor-pointer align-baseline\"><span class=\"whitespace-normal\">Strait of Malacca<\/span><\/span>.<\/p>\n<h2>About Strait of Malacca<\/h2>\n<figure style=\"width: 400px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/cdn.britannica.com\/89\/174789-050-0E96B68F\/Strait-of-Malacca.jpg?resize=400%2C300&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Strait of Malacca\" width=\"400\" height=\"300\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Source: Britannica<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<ul>\n<li><b>Location:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> The Strait of Malacca is a <\/span><b>long and narrow stretch of water<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> located<strong> between the Malay Peninsula, West Malaysia, and the Indonesian island of Sumatra.\u00a0<\/strong><\/span><\/li>\n<li><b>Named after: <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Its name was derived from the <strong>Malacca Sultanate<\/strong>, who governed the archipelago from 1400 until 1511.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><b>Size: <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">It has an area of<\/span><b> about 65,000 sq. km.<\/b><\/li>\n<li><b>Depth and Width: <span style=\"font-weight: 400\">It<\/span><\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u00a0has a<\/span><b> width of about 890 kilometres <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">and<\/span><b> a depth of 25 meters.\u00a0<\/b><\/li>\n<li><b>Geography of the Strait of Malacca<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;color: #993366\"><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/span>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000\">It connects the <strong>Andaman Sea (Indian Ocean)<\/strong> in the west to the <strong>South China Sea (Pacific Ocean)<\/strong> in the east.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">At the <strong>Philips Channel(near Singapore), it becomes very narrow,<\/strong> measuring only about <strong>2.8 km <span style=\"color: #000000\">wide<\/span><\/strong><span style=\"color: #000000\">.<\/span><\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;color: #000000\">It is <strong>bordered<\/strong> to the <strong>north by Sumatra and the Malay Peninsula.<\/strong><\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;color: #000000\">Its <strong>southern boundary<\/strong> is at <strong>Lem Voalan (Thailand).<\/strong><\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"color: #000000\">The <strong>northwest boundary<\/strong> of the strait borders the <strong>Ujong Baka (Indonesia).<\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The <strong>southeasternmost <\/strong>part of the strait is defined <strong>by <span style=\"color: #000000\">Tajung Piai ( Malaysia)<\/span><\/strong><span style=\"color: #000000\">.<\/span><\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><strong>Singapore, Malaysia, and Indonesia<\/strong> control the<strong> joint patrolling of the Malacca Strait.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><b>Economic and strategic significance: <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">It is a major <\/span><b>shipping connection between the Pacific Ocean and the Indian Ocean.<\/b>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">It <strong>provides the shortest route between East Asia, West Asia and Europe.<\/strong><\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"><strong>Around one-fifth (almost 20%) <\/strong>of<strong> global maritime trade<\/strong> moves through this corridor.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"color: #000000\"><strong>Note:<\/strong> <\/span>The term <strong>Malaccamax<\/strong> is used to define the <strong>maximum volume of a vessel<\/strong> that is <strong>able to pass through<\/strong> the Strait of Malacca.\u00a0<\/span>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">A ship whose <strong>volume exceeds<\/strong> the Malaccamax <strong>must use wider and deeper straits<\/strong> such as <\/span><b>Lombok Strait, Makassar Strait, and the Mindoro Strait.<\/b><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>News: Indonesia has said it does not plan to charge tolls on ships passing through the Strait of Malacca. About Strait of Malacca Location: The Strait of Malacca is a long and narrow stretch of water located between the Malay Peninsula, West Malaysia, and the Indonesian island of Sumatra.\u00a0 Named after: Its name was derived&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/strait-of-malacca\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Strait of Malacca\u00a0<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10366,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1566,11209,12039,11211],"tags":[11872,11853],"class_list":["post-361548","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-factly-articles","category-geography-in-news","category-knolls","category-places-in-news","tag-9pm-daily-factly","tag-dd-news","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/361548","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10366"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=361548"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/361548\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=361548"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=361548"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=361548"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}