Malacca, STRAIT OF, separates the Malay Peninsula on the north-east from the island of Sumatra on the south-west, and connects the Indian Ocean with the Chinese Sea. Length, 480 miles; breadth, varying from 30 miles at the south-east to 115 miles at the north-west extremity. On this strait are the British settlements of Malacca, Penang, &c.
Malacca
Chambers's Encyclopaedia, Volume 6: Humber to Malta, p. 818
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