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The Red Sea is an inclusive sea between Africa and the communicating Arabic Peninsula with the Mediterranean Sea through the channel of Suez, and with the Indian ocean through the narrow one of Bab al-Mandab. The Red Sea forks in correspondence of the peninsula of the Sinai, resulting in the Gulf of Aqabah to east, and to the Gulf of west Suez. On the Red sea they lean out Egypt, Israel, Jordan, Saudi Arabia, Yemen, Gibuti, Eritrea and Sudan
In the book of the exodus of the ancient Will the passage of the Red sea is narrated from the Hebrews driven by Mosč in escape from Egypt. In this occasion he tells that God opened the waters in front of the Hebrews for then to close again her in the moment in which the Egyptian troops crossed it that they pursued them.
Today the Red Sea is particularly important in how much it allows the access the channel of Suez of enormous strategic and commercial importance.
On the Red sea they lean out some important places of vacation Egyptians and Jordans, (Sharm el-Sheikh, Hurghada) and Aqaba that entertains every year a lot of tourists, above all European.
Important from the geo and political point of view also the port of Eilat, that constitutes the only result on this sea of Israel and the territory in the Eritrea that it prevents the access the sea to Ethiopia.
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