Published November 3, 2020
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This geography quiz is about major strategic choke points of the world.

A chokepoint refers to a point of natural or man-made congestion along two wider and important navigable passages. A chokepoint is a naturally narrow channel of shipping having high traffic because of their strategic locations.

Given below are 5 suitably edited maps giving the location of chokepoints marked as chokepoint 1 to 5. You have to match these chokepoints with the 5 pairs of countries A to E below.

Chokepoint 1: Strait of Hormuz

Chokepoint 2: Strait of Malacca

Chokepoint 3: Suez Canal

Chokepoint 4: Strait of Bab-el-Mandeb

Chokepoint 5: Strait of Bosporus

A. Ethiopia and Yemen
B. Saudi Arabia and Iran
C. Between Turkey
D. Indonesia and Malaysia
E. Between Egypt