The Gulf of Aqaba (Arabic: خَلِيج الْعَقَبَة, romanized: Khalīj al-ʿAqaba) or Gulf of Eilat (Hebrew: מפרץ אילת, romanized: Mifrátz Eilát) is a large gulf at the northern tip of the Red Sea, east of the Sinai Peninsula and west of the Arabian Peninsula. Its coastline is divided among four countries: Egypt, Israel, Jordan, and Saudi Arabia. The northernmost coral reef in the world is situated near the Eilat shore.
on the GulfofAqaba. Situated in southernmost Jordan, Aqaba is the administrative center of the Aqaba Governorate. The city had a population of 148,398...
The 1995 GulfofAqaba earthquake (also known as Nuweiba earthquake) occurred on November 22 at 06:15 local time (04:15 UTC) and registered 7.3 on the...
along the GulfofAqaba. Israel had plans to expand the settlement of Yamit into a city of up to 200,000 residents. The actual population of Yamit never...
northern end of the Red Sea, to the west of the Sinai Peninsula. Situated to the east of the Sinai Peninsula is the smaller GulfofAqaba. The gulf was formed...
Israel from the west, and the GulfofAqaba from the southwest. There are two international crossing points in Aqaba Governorate, the Durra Border Crossing...
access to the GulfofAqaba, which leads to the Straits of Tiran. The capture of Umm Rashrash, and thus Israeli access to the GulfofAqaba, was not subject...
The GulfofAqaba is home to 1,270 species of fish, over 3,000 species of invertebrates and corals, dozens of bird species, 4 species of sea turtles, and...
is at the northern tip of the Red Sea, due east of Egypt across the GulfofAqaba and south of Jordan. The total planned area of Neom is 26,500 km2 (10...
Peninsula, the GulfofAqaba, and the Gulfof Suez (leading to the Suez Canal). It is underlain by the Red Sea Rift, which is part of the Great Rift Valley...
led a force of as many as 30,000 north to Tabuk, near the GulfofAqaba, in present-day northwestern Saudi Arabia. Following rumours of a Byzantine invasion...
from a very short stretch of coastline on the GulfofAqaba, Jordan is almost completely landlocked. It largely consists of an elevated plateau 700 to...
Red Sea, the Gulf of Kutch, the Gulf of Suez, the GulfofAqaba, the Gulfof Aden, and the Gulfof Oman, dolphins and finless porpoises are the most common...
small coastline along the Red Sea in its southwest, separated by the GulfofAqaba from Egypt. Amman is Jordan's capital and largest city, as well as the...
contributed to a series of depressions, or pull-apart basins, forming the GulfofAqaba, Dead Sea, Sea of Galilee, and Hula basins. A component of shortening affects...
Sea of Marmara, the Black Sea, the Caspian Sea, the Persian Gulf, the Gulfof Oman, the Arabian Sea, the Gulfof Aden, the Red Sea, the GulfofAqaba, the...
Straits of Tiran (Arabic: مضيق تيران Maḍīq Tīrān) are the narrow sea passages between the Sinai and Arabian peninsulas that connect the GulfofAqaba and...
The Port of Eilat (Hebrew: נמל אילת) is the only Israeli port on the Red Sea, located at the northern tip of the GulfofAqaba. The Port of Eilat was declared...
Swan class sloop HMS Crane as it was patrolling the approaches to the GulfofAqaba after it had been mistaken for an Egyptian Navy warship. The ship was...
Trojena is one of the various announced regions of NEOM and will be located 50 km (31 mi) from the GulfofAqaba, covering a total area of 60 km2 (23 sq mi)...
The Gulfof Tonkin is a gulf at the northwestern portion of the South China Sea, located off the coasts of Tonkin (northern Vietnam) and South China. It...
as the GulfofAqaba. The city is considered a tourist destination for domestic and international tourists heading to Israel. Eilat is part of the Southern...
Midian was in the "northwest Arabian Peninsula, on the east shore of the GulfofAqaba on the Red Sea", an area which contained at least 14 inhabited sites...
city in the northwest of Saudi Arabia near the head of the GulfofAqaba, adjacent to Aqaba across the Jordanian border. The coasts of Egypt, Israel, and...