How wide is the Strait of Gibraltar at its narrowest?
14,300 mAbout 46,916 ft · Land-sized
About 14 km between Spain and Morocco.
A red kangaroo would need about 1,800 hops (8 m each) to cover it.
🧭14,300 m
⛰️Ben Nevis
To scale: the Strait of Gibraltar is about 11× bigger than Ben Nevis.
Things about the same size
- How wide was the asteroid that wiped out the dinosaurs?10,000 m
- How tall is Mauna Kea, measured from the sea floor?10,210 m
- How deep is the Challenger Deep, the deepest point of the ocean?10,935 m
- How high do passenger jets fly?11,000 m
- How deep is the Kola Superdeep Borehole?12,262 m
- How wide is the nucleus of Halley's Comet?15,000 m
- How long is the island of Manhattan?21.6 km
- How tall is Olympus Mons on Mars?21.9 km
Many real things vary in size, so we use a typical or official figure. Spotted a mistake? Email [email protected].