As you probably know, the Earth consists of 70% water and 30% land.

However, all of those bits of water and land are not the same.

Some of them hold great strategic importance because they serve as choke points

for people who want to get from A to B.

One one and a half mile stretch of water is perhaps the most important stretch of water in the world.

Through this tiny strait passes approximately 25% of the entire world's trade.

Learn more about the Strait of Malacca and its importance on this episode of

Everything Everywhere Daily. everything everywhere daily. Book your ticket to happiness with Sun Express Airlines. So, It's amazing just how much shipping and trade all has to pass through a few very small areas.

Everything coming in and out of the Black Sea has to travel through the Bosphorus Strait.

Everything coming in and out of the Mediterranean has to go through the Strait of Gibraltar.

25% of the world's oil has to pass through the narrow Strait of Hormuz, which is the entrance to the Persian Gulf.

Likewise, while artificial, the suas and Panama canals are also strategic choke points for much of the world's trade.

There is one waterway that is more important Jichoke points for much of the world's trade.

There is one waterway that is more important than both the Suez and the Panama

canals combined, the Strait of Malacca.

The Strait of Malacca is the narrow body of water which is between the island of Sumatra in Indonesia and the Malay Peninsula.

It also passes right below the small city state of Singapore through the Strait of Singapore, which is usually considered a part of the Strait of Malaca.

It is the main shipping waterway between the Indian and Pacific oceans.

If you want to understand why the Strait of Malaca is important, just look at a map of the world. Let's say a ship wanted to go from

the Port of Yokohama in Japan to Rotterdam in the Netherlands. The shortest route to the

Indian Ocean would be to go around Singapore and into the Strait of Malacca.

If you didn't take that route, your alternative would be much longer.

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