Seas of the World

Can you name the 100 oceans, seas, gulfs, bays, straits and more pictured on the map below?

main source: International Maritime Organization, with additions

excludes Antarctic waters (e.g. Southern Ocean) or borderless seas (e.g. Sargasso Sea)

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First submitted	January 27, 2018
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Oceans

Arctic Ocean

Atlantic Ocean

Indian Ocean

Pacific Ocean

Estuary

Río de la Plata

Sea Route Network

Northwestern
Passages

Endorheic Basin

Caspian Sea

Seas

Aegean Sea

Adriatic Sea

Alboran Sea

Andaman Sea

Arabian Sea

Arafura Sea

Balearic Sea

Baltic Sea

Banda Sea

Barents Sea

Beaufort Sea

Bering Sea

Bismarck Sea

Black Sea

Caribbean Sea

Celebes Sea

Celtic Sea

Ceram Sea

Chukchi Sea

Coral Sea

East China Sea

East Siberian Sea

Flores Sea

Greenland Sea

Halmahera Sea

Ionian Sea

Irish Sea

Seas

Java Sea

Kara Sea

Labrador Sea

Laccadive Sea

Laptev Sea

Ligurian Sea

Mediterranean Sea

Molukka Sea

North Sea

Norwegian Sea

Pechora Sea

Philippine Sea

Red Sea

Salish Sea

Savu Sea

Sea of Azov

Sea of Japan

Sea of Marmara

Sea of Okhotsk

Solomon Sea

South China Sea

Sulu Sea

Tasman Sea

Timor Sea

Tyrrhenian Sea

White Sea

Yellow Sea

Gulfs

Gulf of Aden

Gulf of Alaska

Gulf of Anadyr

Gulf of Aqaba

Gulf of Boni

Gulf of Bothnia

Gulf of California

Gulf of Carpentaria

Gulf of Finland

Gulf of Guinea

Gulf of Maine

Gulf of Mexico

Gulf of Oman

Gulf of Panama

Gulf of Riga

Gulf of St. Lawrence

Gulf of Suez

Gulf of Thailand

Gulf of Tomini

Gulf of Tonkin

Persian Gulf

Straits / Channels

Bass Strait

Cook Strait

Davis Strait

English Channel

Hudson Strait

Kattegat

Mozambique Channel

Skagerrak

Strait of Makassar

Strait of Malacca

Bays / Bights

Baffin Bay

Bay of Bengal

Bay of Biscay

Bay of Fundy

Great Australian Bight

Hudson Bay

San Francisco Bay

Tokyo Bay

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Level 70

Jan 27, 2018

My most difficult quiz so far! A few notes:

-inspired by KoljiVriVoda's quiz "Seas on the World Map"

-I have no idea why the answers don't contain the typical JetPunk green or red

-I tried to make it as accurate as possible. Some minor faults might be included

Enjoy!

Level 31

Mar 17, 2023

where is the southern ocean you completly forgot about it

Level 58

Apr 16, 2023

Caveats

Level 52

Sep 26, 2023

Hey, I wanted to make a more detailed version of this quiz including many more (250+) bodies of water. Could I use your svg as a basis for this quiz?

Level 70

Sep 27, 2023

Go ahead

Level 75

Nov 13, 2023

Good quiz.

Level 49

Nov 30, 2023

Taiwan Strait?

+11

Level 76

Jan 27, 2018

Nice work :)

Level 60

Jan 18, 2021

Agreed!

Level 79

Jan 28, 2018

Very nice job.

Level 75

Jan 29, 2018

excellent! any thoughts on giving a slightly different colour to bays/gulfs?

Level 70

Jan 29, 2018

Right now no, but maybe in a sequel

Level 68

Feb 1, 2018

Excellent quiz! Made me realise how much I didn't know

Level 70

Aug 15, 2018

47/64

Level 71

Aug 23, 2018

No Gulf of Maine? :(

Level 45

Nov 1, 2018

TURKEY WHY!?!?!

Level 43

May 24, 2019

Why does English Channel not accept only English?

Level 74

Mar 1, 2021

Agreed -- any chance you could accept English for English Channel? I just figured I was wrong after trying 'english'. Thanks for updating the quiz btw!

Level 60

Jul 23, 2020

Why does the Persian gulf light up when I type Arabian?

Level 56

Sep 21, 2020

In most Arabian countries, it is called the Arabian Gulf

Level 58

Oct 6, 2021

whats the difference

Level 83

Aug 12, 2020

Even though it is named a sea I feel like the Caspian sea should get it's own category. Maybe endorheic sea or something like that.

Level 72

Nov 13, 2020

Nominated!

Level 72

Nov 13, 2020

I think Asov should be accepted.

Level 72

Jan 21, 2021

The Russian letter з which is the letter for a voiced s is mostly romanised as z, but since in English s also often represents the voiced s, I was thinking you might accept it, since not everyone has seen the Sea of Azov written out before, but still know of its existance and name and would thus like credit for this knowledge independent of their Cyrillic romanisation skills. (Interestingly, this comment includes proof of s being used as a representative for the voiced s sound, since British orthography dictates -isation be written with s.)

Level 22

Nov 20, 2020

Southern Ocean?

Level 51

Jun 7, 2023

That's a made up ocean that never existed until the last 20 years. Just look at a globe from the south pole and you'll see it doesn't make sense to call it an ocean.

Level 79

Nov 30, 2020

Good quiz. Absence of Timor Sea surprised me though.

Level 79

Jan 31, 2021

Further to this, Bismarck Sea and Solomon Sea to the NE and E of New Guinea could also be added. Andaman Sea between Andaman Islands and Malayan peninsula also.

Level 69

Feb 3, 2021

Totally agreed about Andaman Sea. It seems missing to me, as it's distinct from Bay of Bengal.

Level 79

Feb 21, 2021

Loving the update! Excellent work.

Level 61

Dec 24, 2020

Gulf of Tonkin?

Level 69

Dec 28, 2020

Great job! Exactly the kind of quiz I was waiting for!

Level 53

Jan 18, 2021

Excellent quiz! It’s what I like to find when I look for quizzes. Congratulations, and nominated!

Level 33

Jan 26, 2021

this is a good quiz but despite the fact its called Caspian SEA it is actually not classified as a sea nor is it classified as a lake

https://www.bing.com/search?q=is+caspian+sea+a+lake&cvid=7a38c12f4a2b43a690cf12352409cb26&pglt=43&FORM=ANNTA1&PC=U531&adlt=strict

+16

Level 55

Jan 28, 2021

Am I to understand you would rather type "Caspian Body of Undefined Territory?"

Level 71

Feb 4, 2021

Level 64

Jan 29, 2021

Feature-O!

Level 60

Jan 29, 2021

Caspian Sea is a lake, not a sea.

Still would fit with the bodies of water theme though.

And where are the Great Lakes?

Maybe you should consider adding these in a sequel?

By the way I nominated this, great quiz!

Level 60

Jan 29, 2021

I would know, my quizzes are bad

I'm an amateur

Level 64

Jan 29, 2021

Nice quiz! Nominated!

Level 64

Jan 29, 2021

Maybe change the title to "Major Bodies of Water on a Map"?

Level 94

Feb 1, 2021

Terrific quiz!

Level 86

Feb 1, 2021

Seram Sea? Halmahera Sea?

Level 72

Feb 2, 2021

Can you maybe put circles around Rio de la plata and Lake Maracaibo? I didn't even see that the former one was on the map until the time was out. :-/

Great quiz otherwise! I still have a lot to learn.

Level 83

Feb 7, 2021

That would definitely be good. I got Rio de la Plata when I saw the Estuary category, but I missed Maracaibo.

Level 82

Feb 2, 2021

This is great but a lot of them are very small and hard to find, hopefully we can get some dots/circles to make them visible

Level 74

Feb 2, 2021

Surely there should be a Southern Ocean included in such an in-depth quiz?

Level 77

Feb 2, 2021

Rio de la Plata is a River, not a Sea. Rio means river in Spanish

Level 82

Feb 2, 2021

Wikipedia: "Depending on the geographer, the Río de la Plata may be considered a river, an estuary, a gulf or a marginal sea." Similarly "The Gulf of Carpentaria is a large, shallow sea ..." Gulf/sea is often a matter of convention. Adriatic sea could be easily named a gulf.

Level 92

Feb 2, 2021

Isn't Rio de la Plata considered a river?

Level ∞

Feb 2, 2021

I agree with many of the comments above. Gassu?

Level 70

Feb 2, 2021

All valid points. I should've made it clearer that the map only represents a selection. Added a caveat.

Level ∞

Feb 2, 2021

I was thinking in particular this comment:

"This is great but a lot of them are very small and hard to find, hopefully we can get some dots/circles to make them visible".

Level 47

Feb 3, 2021

I agree with this, lake Maracaibo and Rio de la Plata are near impossible to see.

Level 70

Feb 4, 2021

I'll have a look

Level 74

Mar 1, 2021

I guess Dead Sea is too small to be included? And same for the Bay of Fundi (which has the highest tides in the world, but is small)?

Level 70

Mar 1, 2021

The Bay of Fundy is included!

Level 93

Feb 3, 2021

Love this quiz. One note, Baffin Bay is universally known as that... I've never seen it written as "Bay of Baffin" before.

+10

Level 84

Feb 5, 2021

AWESOME quiz! I hereby start a petition to include the Sargasso Sea in the next update! Like this post if you agree!

Level 84

Feb 21, 2021

UPDATE: Petition to include Sargasso Sea DENIED.

Level 75

Feb 6, 2021

Please just accept "English" for "English Channel". It doesn't seem right that you have to type th body of water for this one when you don't on every single other body of water.

Level 68

Feb 19, 2021

You don't have to type both. It accepts "Channel", as it should.

Level 71

Apr 26, 2021

Should accept 'English' for the English Channel, that is it's name, same as Mozambique Channel and others named for the nearness such as, Irish, Norwegian, Philippine, Alaska, California, Finland, Mexico, Maine, Oman, Panama, Thailand etc etc

Level 83

Feb 7, 2021

I get that this isn't definitive, but I feel at least all the oceans should probably be included. Although I suppose this map kinda misses it - it only goes to about 55°S and the Southern Ocean starts at 60°S.

Level 79

Feb 8, 2021

It isn't accepted by everyone as an ocean, guess the maker of the quiz included?

Level 79

Feb 21, 2021

After the edit, I think the issue is that the map doesn't extend to Antarctica - because the cited source has the Southern Ocean and various Antarctic Seas around the ice shelves.

Level 56

Feb 8, 2021

Can you accept "English" for English Channel?

Level 68

Feb 19, 2021

You really shouldn't. I know English people loving slapping their name on things that they don't own, but that doesn't mean we should indulge it.

Level 71

Feb 19, 2021

Obviously your Anglophobia is showing ........you do not mind the 'Norwegian Sea' / Mozambique Channel / Irish Sea / South China Sea / Philippine Sea / Gulf of Panama / Java Sea / Gulf of Oman-Thailand-California / Indian Ocean etc etc.

Level 68

Feb 20, 2021

I'm not at all an Anglophobe! I've lived in London twice, and even worked for Her Majesty's Government in the Foreign Office. It's just that in almost every language, this clearly shared sea is know by some variation of "La Manche", "La Mancha", "der Ärmelkanal". Even in Dutch, it's just called "The Channel" (Het Kanaal). It's literallly just the English who feel like they have to slap their name on this, and even in English, the operative word is clearly "Channel", not "English". When you call it "the Channel", people will know what you mean, and there won't be any doubt as to which channel is meant. When you call it "the English", people will have no idea whatsoever what you're talking about.

Level 74

Mar 1, 2021

@dunkinggandalf2 It's not about anyone calling it "the English." It's about adding a less labour-intensive type-in, and moreover one that is consistent with the rest of the channels appearing in this quiz that do not require typing 'channel' after their names. No one calls it "the Oman" or "the Philippine" etc. yet I can type Oman and Philippine in for those channels. Feel free to dispute whether or not it should be called the English Channel, but that's got nothing to do with what people are requesting.

Level 92

Apr 28, 2021

If you really knew the answer you would type Channel and get it right; no need to type English and not quicker as it has the same number of letters.

Level 79

Feb 16, 2021

Would be nice if some the smaller ones could be highlighted. Difficult to see Rio de la plata, Maracaibo, Marmara for example

Level 74

Feb 19, 2021

Great quiz!

Level 68

Feb 19, 2021

Huh. I've been bathing in the Celtic sea in Brittany every summer for all of my life, and I had no idea! I knew it was the Atlantic ocean, obviously, but I also knew that portion as the "Mer d'Iroise", which, it turns out, is a part of the Celtic sea. Who knew!

Level 68

Feb 19, 2021

i've never heard anyone in the UK or Ireland, or Cornwall for that matter, refer to the 'Celtic' Sea. Anyone out there from the southern counties of Eire call it that?

Level 68

Feb 20, 2021

I haven't heard it in Brittany either, but it's probably not an everyday name anywhere, since, if you've live by the sea, you're more likely to call it "the sea" anyway, without bothering to name it - hence my surprise. But I've looked it up, and it is indeed real, and you better believe I'll be using it regularly from now on!

Level 67

Feb 22, 2021

I've never heard of the Celtic Sea either.

Level 68

Feb 19, 2021

Sorry, meant to add that it's a very interesting and enjoyable quiz.

Level 83

Feb 19, 2021

You shouldn't accept Arabian Gulf for Persian Gulf.

Level 71

Feb 19, 2021

Great fun. I only got around 40 answers but I learnt a lot. Wild guesses like "Norwegian" and "Greenland" were especially satisfying to see pop up as correct answers!

Level 71

Feb 19, 2021

Quite a tough one. I didn't know many of the seas/gulfs/straits around Indonesia/New Guinea/Australia. Also, I typed in "East" and it gave me the Sea of Japan, so I got confused and thought that it was the same as the East China Sea :P

Level 82

Feb 21, 2021

That's the Korean name

Level 71

Mar 13, 2021

Yikes, I didn't realize that there's a huge controversy surrounding this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sea_of_Japan_naming_dispute#Arguments

Level 16

Feb 19, 2021

I’m really bad at oceans

Level 16

Feb 19, 2021

I did get all 50 states in 5 minutes and I’m litarlly 9.

( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)

Level 64

Feb 19, 2021

Wrong quiz

Level 65

Feb 19, 2021

Also nobody cares

Level 70

Feb 19, 2021

ikrrrrrrrrr

Level 68

Feb 20, 2021

Yes, mainly that.

Level 42

Feb 26, 2021

Completely wrong quiz

Level 53

Feb 19, 2021

As opposed to 'figuratively' 9?

Level 64

Feb 19, 2021

I got all states in 1 minute and a half when I was seven. I got all countries in 7 minutes when I was nine. I don't see what the big deal is.

Level 59

Mar 31, 2022

I got all states in same time when i was five, and got countries in seven when i was eight. cool though. Its hard to learn nearly 250 regions and their capitals. you did a good job too

Level 65

Feb 19, 2021

Maracaibo and rio de la plata are VERRRY hard to see. Circles or arrows would be very helpful

Level 70

Feb 19, 2021

I got 52/62 and missed Arctic Ocean. WHYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY

Level 65

Feb 19, 2021

Could you be a bit more forgiving on the spelling of Okhotsk?

Level 73

Feb 19, 2021

Any reason why the Balearic Sea wasn’t included?

Level 62

Feb 20, 2021

Aced it. I barely got the Rio de la Plata. This is a good quiz!

Level 68

Feb 21, 2021

Love the new map after the update, great quiz! Thanks :)

Level 73

Feb 21, 2021

Yeah, great work!

Level 70

Feb 21, 2021

thanks, guys!

very much appreciated

Level 84

Feb 21, 2021

LOL at "Bay" working for San Francisco Bay. I was needlessly typing "Bay of Biscay".

Level 64

Feb 21, 2021

Nice update!

Level 89

Feb 22, 2021

I would buy the explanation for accepting just "channel" but not just "english" for the English Channel if it were the only one, but it's not. The only way to distinguish, then, is to be specific. The specific part is "english" not "channel." So, as with all other answers, the specific part alone should be accepted.

Level 62

Feb 22, 2021

Love the update, this can very challenging/fun for other quizzers!

Level 62

Feb 23, 2021

Shoot, my grammar failed me. Forgot to add "be" after "very."

Level 82

Feb 22, 2021

Woah, this quiz is excellent. Thoroughly enjoyed it.

Level 75

Feb 22, 2021

Awesome quiz!

Level 69

Feb 23, 2021

What a great update you did here! Awesome quiz :)

Level 64

Feb 23, 2021

my dumb brain can't spell arctic

Level 72

Feb 26, 2021

Oh my god, I had to type it four times! I'm glad I'm not alone.

Level 76

Feb 26, 2021

What about the Gulf of Sidra in Libya, James Bay in Canada, the Denmark Strait, and the seas around Antarctica?

Level 53

Feb 27, 2021

This quiz never claimed to be a comprehensive list of every body of water in the world.

Level 72

Feb 26, 2021

I love the updated version, but maybe could use a little more time? It's still kinda hard to see all the little places, even with the pop-out circles.

Level 88

Feb 27, 2021

Strait(s) of Gibraltar????

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strait_of_Gibraltar

Connecting the Atlantic to the Mediterranean seems quite important

Level 71

Mar 13, 2021

Really love the update! I made a lot of dumb mistakes this time around (misspelling "Norwegian," trying just "Bight" for the Great Australian Bight, trying "Siam" for some reason but not "Thailand."), but I still enjoyed it and learned a lot!

Level 64

Mar 18, 2021

Gassu, do you mind me making a randomized version???

Level 57

Mar 25, 2021

Why does the Panama zoom in fill in with Atlantic rather than Caribbean? Besides that, great quiz!

Level 54

Apr 26, 2021

Hate to be a bother, but I believe Adriatic comes alphabetically before Aegean.

Level 64

Apr 27, 2021

Southern Ocean???????????????????????????????

Level 28

May 3, 2021

Will I master this? Possibly.

Level 80

Jun 5, 2021

"Azof" should be considered correct

Level 65

Jun 24, 2021

How about Chesapeake?

Level 55

Jun 29, 2021

The Southern Ocean has now been Officially Recognized by the National Geographic Society.

Level 56

Jul 1, 2021

Thank goodness

Level 84

Aug 5, 2021

In the circle for the Gulf of Panama, the water to the north is triggered by guessing the Atlantic Ocean instead of the Caribbean Sea.

Level 50

Aug 28, 2021

Bruh youve got to be kidding me, arctic??? ARCCCCCCCCTIC?????

Level 75

Sep 15, 2021

THIS IS AMAZING!!! I'm so glad good and challenging physical geo quizzes are being released now!

Level 59

Sep 21, 2021

Great Quiz!!!

Level 75

Sep 30, 2021

Joseph Bonaparte Gulf. Bismarck Sea not too far away. Perhaps their waters will mix and create a really good whirlpool.

Level 84

Oct 4, 2021

One of the very best quizzes on Jetpunk, love it

Level 78

Mar 3, 2022

good one

Level 76

Mar 11, 2022

You know the Caspian's not a sea, right?

Level 75

May 16, 2022

Hi there! I would like to use this map together with 'country borders' but I can't just 'put them together'... any idea how I could do that? And if I manage that can I use the map to create quizzes? Btw perhaps it could get renamed '100 seas on the world map' or something otherwise when searching for 'sea world' it seems this is the version without map

Level 60

May 25, 2022

Great quiz.

Level 27

May 31, 2022

You should make a more advanced version of this quiz that has like ALL (major) Bodies of water including big lakes, the Liberian Sea, James Bay, Dead Sea, Basins, etc.

Very nice quiz though

Level 32

Nov 11, 2022

Nice quiz but you should add the Chesapeake Bay

Level 53

Jan 17, 2023

agreed, if there is also the bay of fundy

Level 44

Dec 15, 2022

87/100. nice quiz

Level 53

Jan 17, 2023

i got gulf of boni and forgot the persian gulf lol

Level 57

Feb 12, 2023

47/100 ran out of time but was never going to get them all

Level 61

May 20, 2023

Nice quiz again from Gassu, my only suggestion is to to include the Levantine Sea which takes up the majority of the eastern side of the Mediterranean Sea. But other than that nice SVG map.

Level 51

Jun 7, 2023

Tomini should accept Tomimi since that's the way Google Earth spells it. Also, Beibu should be accepted for Gulf of Tonkin.

Level 50

Nov 6, 2023

Finally got all 100 after a couple days of trying! Southeast Asia was by far the most difficult to memorize, especially considering I've never heard of most of the seas and gulfs in there lol

Level 49

Nov 30, 2023

33/100, level 49 now. Cool quiz!

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