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Demographics. Population. 600,000 [1] Pop. density. 10/km 2 (30/sq mi) The Sinai Peninsula, or simply Sinai ( / ˈsaɪnaɪ / SY-ny; Arabic: سِينَاء; Egyptian Arabic: سينا; Coptic: Ⲥⲓⲛⲁ ), is a peninsula in Egypt, and the only part of the country located in Asia. It is between the Mediterranean Sea to the north and the Red Sea ...
Taba, Egypt. / 29.49167°N 34.89444°E / 29.49167; 34.89444. Taba ( Arabic: طَابَا Ṭābā, IPA: [ˈtˤɑːbɑ]) is an Egyptian town near the northern tip of the Gulf of Aqaba. Taba is the location of Egypt's busiest border crossing with neighboring Eilat, Israel. It is the northernmost resort of Egypt's Red Sea Riviera.
Modern Israel is bounded to the north by Lebanon, the northeast by Syria, the east by Jordan and the West Bank, and to the southwest by Egypt. To the west of Israel is the Mediterranean Sea, which makes up the majority of Israel's 273 km (170 mi) coastline and the Gaza Strip. Israel has a small coastline on the Red Sea in the south.
Since the Egypt–Israel peace treaty of 1979, Israel has enjoyed freedom of navigation through the Suez Canal and the Straits of Tiran . Egypt was one of the main Arab countries that invaded Israel after the Israeli Declaration of Independence, sparking the 1948 Arab–Israeli War. Although the Egyptians were defeated during this conflict ...
Egypt is considered to be a regional power in North Africa, the Middle East and the Muslim world, and a middle power worldwide. [24] It is a developing country having a diversified economy, which is the largest in Africa, the 38th-largest economy by nominal GDP and 127th by nominal GDP per capita. [25]
The Camp David Accords were a pair of political agreements signed by Egyptian President Anwar Sadat and Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin on 17 September 1978, [1] following twelve days of secret negotiations at Camp David, the country retreat of the President of the United States in Maryland. [2] The two framework agreements were signed at ...
Egypt has coastlines on the Mediterranean Sea, the River Nile, and the Red Sea. Egypt borders Libya to the west, Israel to the east and Sudan to the south. Egypt has an area of 1,002,450 km 2 (387,050 sq mi). The longest straight-line distance in Egypt from north to south is 1,420 km (880 mi), while that from east to west measures 1,275 km (792 ...
E£ 405 (Inbound Egypt) ₪ 105 (Outbound Israel) Location. The Taba Border Crossing ( Arabic: معبر طابا, Hebrew: מעבר טאבה ), also known in Israel as the Menachem Begin Crossing ( Hebrew: מעבר מנחם בגין ), is an international border crossing between Taba, in Egypt, and Eilat, in Israel. The Taba Border Crossing is ...