It connects the Sea of Japan with the Pacific Ocean.

The strait thereby connects the Philippine Sea to the South China Sea in the western Pacific Ocean.

It was funded by the Russian Empire as a strategic railway connecting the Black Sea to the Caspian Sea.

To the south the Dardanelles Strait connects the Sea of Marmara with the Aegean Sea.

The strait is an international waterway, and together with the Bosphorus, the Dardanelles connects the Black Sea to the Mediterranean Sea.

It connects the Black Sea with the Sea of Marmara.

They are separated by the Dardanelles strait, connecting the Sea of Marmara and the Aegean Sea.

It connects the Sea of Okhotsk on the north with the Sea of Japan on the south.

The involvement with Turkey raised the question of Russian access to the straits connecting the Black Sea to the Mediterranean.

The Straits, the Bosporus and the Dardanelles connect the Black Sea with the Aegean and the Mediterranean.