Gulf of Aden
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The Gulf of Aden is a deepwater gulf of the Indian Ocean between Yemen to the north, the Arabian Sea to the east, Djibouti to the west, and the Guardafui Channel, the Socotra Archipelago, Puntland in
The Gulf of Aden from space
A dhow in the Gulf of Aden
Bab-el-Mandeb
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The Bab-el-Mandeb is a strait and a major global chokepoint between Yemen on the Arabian Peninsula and Djibouti and Eritrea in the Horn of Africa, connecting the Red Sea to the Gulf of Aden and the In
Gulf of Aden
…Guardafui Channel, the Socotra Archipelago, Puntland in Somalia and Somaliland to the south. In the northwest, it connects with the Red Sea through the Bab-el-Mandeb strait, and it connects with the Arabian Sea to the east. To the west, it narrows into the Gulf of Tadjoura in Djibouti. The Aden Ridge lies along the…
The strait of Bab-el-Mandeb seen as seen from the orbiting Gemini 11 above East Africa and the Arabian Peninsula
The Strait of Bab-el-Mandeb, with Perim Island in the distance