At its southern end is the Gulf of Aqaba and the resort city of Eilat.

The Gulf of Aqaba or Gulf of Eilat (, transliterated Khalyj al 'Aqabah , transliterated Mifratz Eilat ) is a large gulf at the northern tip of the Red Sea, east of the Sinai Peninsula and west of the Arabian mainland.

They travelled through the Sinai desert, and in 1822 were the first European explorers to reach the Gulf of Aqaba.

Ecology History Trade across the Red Sea between Thebes port of Elim and Elat at the head of the gulf is documented as early as the Fourth Dynasty of Egypt.

The largest population center is Aqaba, with a population of 108,000 (2009), followed by Eilat with a population of 48,000 (2009).

Taba ( , ) is a small Egyptian town near the northern tip of the Gulf of Aqaba.

Geology The gulf is one of two gulfs created by the Sinai Peninsula's bifurcation of the northern Red Sea, the Gulf of Suez lying to the west of the peninsula and the Gulf of Aqaba to its east.

Nasser subsequently ordered the tightening of the blockade on Israeli shipping through the Straits of Tiran and restricted the use of airspace over the Gulf of Aqaba by Israeli aircraft in early September.

The southern side of the peninsula has a sharp escarpment that subsides after a narrow coastal shelf that slopes into the Red Sea and the Gulf of Aqaba.

Claim No. 5000453 is for the costs of studies undertaken by Kuwait University to assess the effects of Iraq's invasion and occupation on Kuwait's society.

Rumsfeld's hidden mission was to win Saddam's support of a Bechtel built oil pipeline to run from Iraq via Jordan to the Gulf of Aqaba.

The agreement also provided for the free passage of Israeli ships through the Suez Canal, and recognition of the Strait of Tiran and the Gulf of Aqaba as international waterways.

So there has been a project which rescues the Dead Sea by creating a pipeline, a pipe, sometimes above the surface, sometimes buried, that will redress that, and will feed from the Gulf of Aqaba into the Dead Sea.

He and his tribesmen were instrumental in the fall of Aqaba (July 1917) and Damascus (October 1918).

He pointed to what he considered to be the region's distinct natural boundaries, and described it as extending from the Taurus range in the northwest and the Zagros Mountains in the northeast, to the Suez Canal and the Red Sea including the Sinai Peninsula and the Gulf of Aqaba in the south, and from the eastern Mediterranean Sea including the island of Cyprus in the west, to the arch of the Arabian Desert and the Persian Gulf in the east.

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The Gulf of Thailand, historically known as the Gulf of Siam, is a shallow arm of the South China Sea bordered by Cambodia, Thailand, and Vietnam.

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A system for monitoring the import, export and transit of hazardous goods was developed and tested over a period of three months, beginning on 19 September 2004, in the region of Aqaba, under the supervision of the Aqaba Special Economic Zone Authority, in cooperation with the Ports Corporation and the security services.

Among those were the lower part of the Saronicos Gulf and the Gulf of Thessaloniki.

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The name Guinea was also applied to south coast of West Africa, north of the Gulf of Guinea, which became known as Upper Guinea , and the west coast of Southern Africa, to the east, which became known as Lower Guinea.

Alata borders the sea in the Gulf of Lava which is in the Gulf of Sagone.

Geography The Arabian Peninsula is located in the continent of Asia and bounded by (clockwise) the Persian Gulf on the northeast, the Strait of Hormuz and the Gulf of Oman on the east, the Arabian Sea on the southeast and south, the Gulf of Aden on the south, the Bab el Mandeb strait on the southwest, and the Red Sea which is located on the southwest and west.

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