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maritime region
Close ✕The Strait of Malacca
The long, narrow, shallow water between the Malay Peninsula and Sumatra that joins the Indian Ocean to the South China Sea, and the busiest shipping lane in the world by some measures.
3.0, 100.5 · regional · permanent feature; a cable corridor since the 19th century
On the world
- A place in: The Cables Beneath · 6 places
- Joined to: Singapore — The Strait of Malacca · 2 places
Lines mark links and orders the records assert; no path between any two places is recorded, and none is drawn.
Connections
- is adjacent to of Singapore — Singapore sits at the southern end of the strait, which is why the region's cables interconnect there.
- instance of The cable chokepoint — The direct route between the Indian Ocean and the Pacific is a narrow, shallow, intensively trafficked strait that cables and ships share.
- is passes through of SEA-ME-WE 5 — The system runs from Singapore up the strait, landing at Malacca and on the Sumatran coast.
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