Gulf of Suez
Red Sea arm
The Gulf of Suez is a narrow arm of the Red Sea extending northward between the Sinai Peninsula and mainland Egypt.
It terminates at the city of Suez, where the Suez Canal connects to the Mediterranean Sea.
The gulf is roughly 300 kilometers long and has been an important shipping route for millennia.
- Red SeaAfrican-Arabian saltwater inlet
- shipping laneDesignated ocean travel path
- EgyptNortheastern African nation
- Sinai desertBarren peninsula in Egypt
- petroleumNatural underground hydrocarbon liquid
crude oil · oil rigs · tankers · oil tanker · shipping · strait · desert · coral · coastline · Moses · sea crossing · biblical · crossing · Pharaoh · Exodus · tides · arid · drilling
- Middle East WaterTigris, Euphrates, Nile, Jordan River, Red Sea
- North African WatersMediterranean Sea, Nile River, Nile Delta, Red Sea
- Red SeaJeddah, coral reefs, Sinai Peninsula, Berenice, Saudi Arabia
- SinaiMount Sinai, Bedouin, Bedouins, Saint Catherine, St. Catherine
- Suez Canalwaterway, chokepoint, trade route, passage, transit
- Mediterranean WatersMediterranean Sea, Adriatic Sea, Aegean Sea, Ionian Sea, Strait of Gibraltar