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Seven Brothers, Doumeira, Perim. The Bab-el-Mandeb ( Arabic : باب المندب, lit. 'Gate of Lamentation', [1] Tigrinya: ባብ ኣል ማንዳብ ), the Gate of Grief or the Gate of Tears, [2] is a strait between Yemen on the Arabian Peninsula and Djibouti and Eritrea in the Horn of Africa. It connects the Red Sea to the Gulf of Aden and ...
140,683,144 (2020 est.) Area. 1,882,757 km 2. The Horn of Africa ( HoA ), also known as the Somali Peninsula, [2] [3] [4] is a large peninsula and geopolitical region in East Africa. [5] Located on the easternmost part of the African mainland, it is the fourth largest peninsula in the world.
Great Rift Valley. The Great Rift Valley ( Swahili: Bonde la ufa) is a series of contiguous geographic trenches, approximately 7,000 kilometres (4,300 mi) in total length, that runs from Lebanon in Asia to Mozambique in Southeast Africa. [1] While the name continues in some usages, it is rarely used in geology as it is considered an imprecise ...
T. Tingitan Peninsula. Categories: Peninsulas by continent. Landforms of Africa. Hidden category: Commons category link is on Wikidata.
Italian East Africa. Italian East Africa ( Italian: Africa Orientale Italiana, AOI) [3] was an Italian colony in the Horn of Africa. It was formed in 1936 after the Second Italo-Ethiopian War through the merger of Italian Somaliland, Italian Eritrea, and the newly occupied Ethiopian Empire. [4]
View of the Argolic gulf, with Nafplio visible. The Peloponnese is a peninsula located at the southern tip of the mainland, 21,549.6 square kilometres (8,320.3 sq mi) in area, and constitutes the southernmost part of mainland Greece. It is connected to the mainland by the Isthmus of Corinth, where the Corinth Canal was constructed in 1893.
The Bedouin, Beduin, or Bedu ( / ˈbɛduɪn /; [17] Arabic: بَدْو, romanized : badū, singular بَدَوِي badawī) are pastorally nomadic Arab tribes [18] who have historically inhabited the desert regions in the Arabian Peninsula, North Africa, the Levant, and Mesopotamia ( Iraq ). [19] The Bedouin originated in the Syrian Desert [20 ...
A peninsula is generally defined as a piece of land surrounded on most sides by water. [5] [9] A peninsula may be bordered by more than one body of water, and the body of water does not have to be an ocean or a sea. [10] A piece of land on a very tight river bend or one between two rivers is sometimes said to form a peninsula, for example in ...