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The Red Sea is a sea inlet of the Indian Ocean, lying between Africa and Asia. Its connection to the ocean is in the south, through the Bab-el-Mandeb strait and the Gulf of Aden. To its north lie the Sinai Peninsula, the Gulf of Aqaba, and the Gulf of Suez —leading to the Suez Canal. It is underlain by the Red Sea Rift, which is part of the ...
32. Main article: Timeline of the Red Sea crisis. October 2023. USS Carneyengages with Houthi missiles, 19 October 2023. On 19 October 2023, US officials said the United States NavydestroyerUSS Carneyshot down three land-attack cruise missilesand several drones heading toward Israel launched by the Houthis in Yemen.
The Bab-el-Mandeb (Arabic: باب المندب, lit.'Gate of Lamentation', [ 1 ] Tigrinya: ባብ ኣል ማንዳብ), the Gate of Grief or the Gate of Tears, [ 2 ] is a strait between Yemen on the Arabian Peninsula and Djibouti and Eritrea in the Horn of Africa. It connects the Red Sea to the Gulf of Aden and by extension the Indian Ocean.
Geography of Egypt. The geography of Egypt relates to two regions: North Africa and West Asia. Egypt has coastlines on the Mediterranean Sea, the River Nile, and the Red Sea. Egypt borders Libya to the west, Israel to the east and Sudan to the south. Egypt has an area of 1,002,450 km 2 (387,050 sq mi).
Map 1: United Nations-derived boundary map of Israel and the Israeli-occupied territories (2007, updated to 2018) The modern borders of Israel exist as the result both of past wars and of diplomatic agreements between the State of Israel and its neighbours, as well as an effect of the agreements among colonial powers ruling in the region before Israel's creation.
Location of Sudan. Sudan is located in Northeast Africa. It is bordered by Egypt to the north, the Red Sea to the northeast, Eritrea and Ethiopia to the east, South Sudan to the south, the Central African Republic to the southwest, Chad to the west and Libya to the northwest. Sudan is the third largest country in Africa, after Algeria and the ...
The Arabian Peninsula formed as a result of the rifting of the Red Seabetween 56 and 23 million years ago, and is bordered by the Red Sea to the west and southwest, the Persian Gulfand the Gulf of Omanto the northeast, the Levantand Mesopotamiato the north and the Arabian Seaand the Indian Oceanto the southeast.
border countries: Iraq 179 km, Israel 307 km, Saudi Arabia 731 km, Syria 379 km, West Bank 148 km Coastline: 26 km note: Jordan also borders the Dead Sea, for 50 kilometres (31 mi) Maritime claims: territorial sea: 3 nmi (5.556 km; 3.452 mi) Elevation extremes: lowest point: Dead Sea −408 m highest point: Jabal Umm ad Dami 1,854 m