The Sinai Peninsula
The Sinai is a triangular-shaped peninsula occupying 24,400
square miles (63,196 square kilometers), with its base along
the Mediterranean Sea and its point, Ras Mohamed, jutting
into the Red Sea. It is bordered on the west by the Suez Canal
and the Gulf of Suez and on the east by the Gulf of Aqaba and
Egypt’s 120-mile- (193-kilometer-) long political border with
Israel. Sinai’s Mediterranean coast has shallow lagoons, sand
dunes, sandy plains, and salt marshes. The rest of the peninsula
is physically an extension of the Eastern Desert, with coastal
plains along the gulfs of Suez and Aqaba, a core of high igneous
mountains, plateaus of limestone and sandstone, and aprons of
gravel plains draining and flanking the highlands. Just off the
Gulf of Aqaba shore and at Ras Muhammad are coral reefs that
are world famous among divers and snorkelers. Most of these
are protected as national parks.
The Sinai is a triangular-shaped peninsula occupying 24,400
square miles (63,196 square kilometers), with its base along
the Mediterranean Sea and its point, Ras Mohamed, jutting
into the Red Sea. It is bordered on the west by the Suez Canal
and the Gulf of Suez and on the east by the Gulf of Aqaba and
Egypt’s 120-mile- (193-kilometer-) long political border with
Israel. Sinai’s Mediterranean coast has shallow lagoons, sand
dunes, sandy plains, and salt marshes. The rest of the peninsula
is physically an extension of the Eastern Desert, with coastal
plains along the gulfs of Suez and Aqaba, a core of high igneous
mountains, plateaus of limestone and sandstone, and aprons of
gravel plains draining and flanking the highlands. Just off the
Gulf of Aqaba shore and at Ras Muhammad are coral reefs that
are world famous among divers and snorkelers. Most of these
are protected as national parks.
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