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maritime region
Close ✕The Luzon Strait
The water between Taiwan and the northern Philippines, and the single most consequential cable corridor in East Asia.
20.8, 121.0 · regional · permanent feature; a cable corridor since the 20th century
On the world
- A place in: The Cables Beneath · 6 places
- Joined to: The Luzon Strait — Taiwan · 2 places
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Connections
- adjacent to Taiwan — The strait lies immediately south of Taiwan, between the island and the northern Philippines.
- instance of The cable chokepoint — The only deep passage between the South China Sea and the Pacific in its latitude band concentrates the region's cables into one corridor.
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