{"id":62221,"date":"2026-04-25T12:10:57","date_gmt":"2026-04-25T06:40:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=62221"},"modified":"2026-04-25T15:12:21","modified_gmt":"2026-04-25T09:42:21","slug":"strait-of-malacca","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/strait-of-malacca\/","title":{"rendered":"Strait of Malacca"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><b>Strait of Malacca Latest News<\/b><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The closure of the Strait of Hormuz has forced policymakers in Asia to face questions over the security of other maritime chokepoints, including the Strait of Malacca.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><b>About Strait of Malacca<\/b><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><b>Location:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> It connects the <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/andaman-sea\/\" target=\"_blank\"><b>Andaman Sea<\/b><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> (Indian Ocean) and the <\/span><b>South China Sea<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> (Pacific Ocean).<\/span><\/li>\n<li><b>Bounded by:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> Indonesia, Thailand, Malaysia and Singapore<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Strait of Malacca\u2019s name was derived <\/span><b>from the Malacca Sultanate,<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> who governed the archipelago from 1400 until 1511.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The climate of the strait is <\/span><b>hot and humid<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> and is characterized by the northeast monsoon during the (northern) winter and the southwest monsoon during the summer.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It links the <\/span><b>Indian and Pacific oceans<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> and is one of the busiest and most important shipping lanes in the world.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Singapore, Malaysia, and Indonesia control the joint patrolling of the Malacca Strait.<\/span><\/li>\n<li aria-level=\"1\"><b>Significance<\/b><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"list-style-type: none;\">\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"2\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It is the largest <\/span><b>\u201coil transit chokepoint\u201d<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> in the world.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"2\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It carries nearly <\/span><b>22% of the world\u2019s maritime trade<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"2\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Roughly 60% of India\u2019s seaborne trade and almost all of its LNG imports pass through the Malacca Strait.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>Source: <\/b><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/ddnews.gov.in\/en\/explainer-hormuz-crisis-throws-spotlight-on-worlds-largest-chokepoint-the-malacca-strait\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">DD News<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Strait of Malacca connects the Andaman Sea (Indian Ocean) and the South China Sea (Pacific Ocean).  Read more about Strait of Malacca, Location, Significance, Latest News.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":62206,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[2536],"class_list":{"0":"post-62221","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","8":"tag-strait-of-malacca","9":"no-featured-image-padding"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62221","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/24"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=62221"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62221\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":100235,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62221\/revisions\/100235"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/62206"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=62221"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=62221"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=62221"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}