2026-04-17 13:24 UTC
The world's attention remains fixed on the US 🇺🇸 / Israel 🇮🇱 / Iran 🇮🇷 conflict generally and the Strait of Hormuz, the entry to the Persian Gulf, specifically.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strait_of_hormuz
While the conflict hopefully de-escalates we thought for this week's
#geoweirdness thread we would feature the list of strategic maritime "choke points".
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@opencage@en.osm.town 2026-04-17 13:24
2/ Not far from the Strait at the entrance to the Red Sea we find the Bab-el-Mandeb passage between Yemen 🇾🇪 on the Arabian Peninsula and Djibouti 🇩🇯and Eritrea 🇪🇷 in the Horn of Africa https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bab-el-Mandeb Nearby is Somaliland, which declared independence from Somalia 🇸🇴 in 1991 and operates as its own country, but is recognized by only one UN member: Israel 🇮🇱 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Somaliland #geoweirdness