What is the difference between a strait and a channel?

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Answer 1

Canals are more often used for transportation routes for seacrafts! they look the same though.

Answer 2

There isn't much of a difference. They are the same thing different names.

Answer 3

Channels are wider than straits.  

Answer 4

about half a world

Europe and America

Answer 5

A strait is a narrow, navigable channel of water that connects two larger navigable bodies of water. It most commonly refers to a channel of water that lies between two land masses, but it may also refer to a navigable channel through a body of water that is otherwise not navigable, for example because it is too shallow, or because it contains an unnavigable reef or archipelago. The terms strait, channel, passage, sound, and firth can be synonymous and interchangeable, although each is sometimes differentiated with varying senses.