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The northern end of the Red Sea
Red Sea

The Red Sea is a salt water inlet of the Indian Ocean between Africa and Asia. The connection to the ocean is in the south through the Bab el Mandeb sound and the Gulf of Aden....
 is bifurcated
River bifurcation

River bifurcation is the separation of a stream into two parts. The creation of distributary are the consequences of bifurcation.One of the most famous bifurcations is the Casiquiare canal that links the Orinoco River with the Amazon River....
 by the Sinai Peninsula
Sinai Peninsula

The Sinai Peninsula or Sinai is a triangular peninsula in Egypt. It lies between the Mediterranean Sea to the north and the Red Sea to the south, forming a land bridge between Africa and Southwest Asia....
, creating the Gulf of Suez (; transliterated
Arabic transliteration

Different approaches and methods for the romanization of Arabic language exist. They vary in the way that they address the inherent problems of rendering written and spoken Arabic in the Latin alphabet; they also use different symbols for Arabic phonemes that do not exist in English language or other European languages....
: Khalig as-Suwais) in the west and the Gulf of Aqaba
Gulf of Aqaba

The Gulf of Aqaba , in Israel known as the Gulf of Eilat is a large Headlands and bays of the Red Sea. It is located to the east of the Sinai peninsula and west of the Arabian peninsula....
 to the east. The Gulf of Suez is formed within a relatively young, but now inactive rift basin, the Gulf of Suez Rift
Gulf of Suez Rift

The Gulf of Suez Rift is a continental rift zone active between the Late Oligocene and the end of the Miocene . It represented a continuation of the Red Sea Rift until break-up occurred in the middle Miocene, with most of the displacement on the newly developed Red Sea Mid-oceanic ridge being accommodated by the Dead Sea Transform....
, dating back about 28 million years.






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The northern end of the Red Sea
Red Sea

The Red Sea is a salt water inlet of the Indian Ocean between Africa and Asia. The connection to the ocean is in the south through the Bab el Mandeb sound and the Gulf of Aden....
 is bifurcated
River bifurcation

River bifurcation is the separation of a stream into two parts. The creation of distributary are the consequences of bifurcation.One of the most famous bifurcations is the Casiquiare canal that links the Orinoco River with the Amazon River....
 by the Sinai Peninsula
Sinai Peninsula

The Sinai Peninsula or Sinai is a triangular peninsula in Egypt. It lies between the Mediterranean Sea to the north and the Red Sea to the south, forming a land bridge between Africa and Southwest Asia....
, creating the Gulf of Suez (; transliterated
Arabic transliteration

Different approaches and methods for the romanization of Arabic language exist. They vary in the way that they address the inherent problems of rendering written and spoken Arabic in the Latin alphabet; they also use different symbols for Arabic phonemes that do not exist in English language or other European languages....
: Khalig as-Suwais) in the west and the Gulf of Aqaba
Gulf of Aqaba

The Gulf of Aqaba , in Israel known as the Gulf of Eilat is a large Headlands and bays of the Red Sea. It is located to the east of the Sinai peninsula and west of the Arabian peninsula....
 to the east. The Gulf of Suez is formed within a relatively young, but now inactive rift basin, the Gulf of Suez Rift
Gulf of Suez Rift

The Gulf of Suez Rift is a continental rift zone active between the Late Oligocene and the end of the Miocene . It represented a continuation of the Red Sea Rift until break-up occurred in the middle Miocene, with most of the displacement on the newly developed Red Sea Mid-oceanic ridge being accommodated by the Dead Sea Transform....
, dating back about 28 million years. It stretches some north by northwest, terminating at the Egyptian city of Suez
Suez

Suez is a seaport town in north-eastern Egypt, located on the north coast of the Gulf of Suez, near the southern terminus of the Suez Canal, having the same boundaries as As Suways Governorate....
 and the entrance to the Suez Canal
Suez Canal

The Suez Canal is a canal in Egypt. Opened in November 1869, it allows water transportation between Europe and Asia without navigating around Africa or carrying goods overland between the Mediterranean and the Red Sea....
. Along the mid-line of the Gulf lies the border between the continents of Africa
Africa

Africa is the world's second-largest and second most-populous continent, after Asia. At about 30.2 million km? including adjacent islands, it covers 6% of the Earth's total surface area and 20.4% of the total land area....
 and Asia
Asia

Asia is the world's largest and most populous continent. It covers 8.6% of the Earth's total surface area and, with over 4 billion people, it contains more than 60% of the world's current human population....
. The entrance of the Gulf lies atop the mature Gemsa oil and gas field.

The Gulf of Suez occupies the northwestern arm of the Red Sea
Red Sea

The Red Sea is a salt water inlet of the Indian Ocean between Africa and Asia. The connection to the ocean is in the south through the Bab el Mandeb sound and the Gulf of Aden....
 between Africa proper (west) and the Sinai Peninsula (east) of Egypt. It is the third arm of the triple junction
Triple junction

A triple junction is the point where the boundaries of three tectonic plates meet. At the triple junction a boundary will be one of 3 types - a Mid-ocean ridge, oceanic trench or transform fault and triple junctions can be described according to the types of plate margin that meet at them....
 rift system. The second arm of the triple junction system is the Gulf of Aqaba
Gulf of Aqaba

The Gulf of Aqaba , in Israel known as the Gulf of Eilat is a large Headlands and bays of the Red Sea. It is located to the east of the Sinai peninsula and west of the Arabian peninsula....
.

The length of the gulf, from its mouth at the Strait of Jubal
Jubal

Jubal , was the son of Lamech and Adah, a brother of Jabal, a descendant of Cain, according to the Bible. The ancestor of all who played the lyre and pipe....
 to its head at the city of Suez
Suez

Suez is a seaport town in north-eastern Egypt, located on the north coast of the Gulf of Suez, near the southern terminus of the Suez Canal, having the same boundaries as As Suways Governorate....
, is , and it varies in width from .

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