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Egypt's location. The geography of Egypt relates to two regions: North Africa and West. Egypt has coastlines on the Mediterranean Sea, the River Nile, and the Red Sea.Egypt borders Libya to the west, Palestine and Israel to the east and Sudan to the south (with a current dispute over the halaib triangle).
The Red Sea coastal desert extends north and south along the Red Sea and Gulf of Suez, which bound it on the east.It includes both a narrow coastal strip and the Red Sea Hills, a range of coastal mountains that runs parallel to the coast.
Marginal seas as defined by the International Hydrographic Organization [1] This is a list of seas of the World Ocean, including marginal seas, areas of water, various gulfs, bights, bays, and straits. [2] In many cases it is a matter of tradition for a body of water to be named a sea or a bay, etc., therefore all these types are listed here.
The border between North America and South America is at some point on the Darién Mountains watershed that divides along the Colombia–Panama border where the isthmus meets the South American continent (see Darién Gap). Virtually all atlases list Panama as a state falling entirely within North America and/or Central America. [116] [117]
World map of the five-ocean model with approximate boundaries. This list of countries which border two or more oceans includes both sovereign states and dependencies, provided the same contiguous territory borders on more than one of the five named oceans, the Pacific, Atlantic, Indian, Southern, and Arctic. [1]
Egypt is widely regarded as an important political and cultural nation of the Middle East, as center of the Arab World and MENA. Egypt situated on both North Africa and West Asia, connects the African continent to Eurasia via the Sinai Peninsula. Within Sinai, the Suez Canal connects the Mediterranean Sea to the Red Sea. The canal is the most ...
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A four color map of the Red Sea and its bordering countries. The Red Sea may be geographically divided into three sections: the Red Sea proper, and in the north, the Gulf of Aqaba and the Gulf of Suez. The six countries bordering the Red Sea proper are: Eastern shore: Saudi Arabia; Yemen; Western shore: Egypt; Sudan; Eritrea; Djibouti