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Sinai Peninsula from Southeastern Mediterranean panorama STS040-152-180
the Gulf of Eilat with the Red Sea from a satellite

The Gulf of Aqaba (Arabic: خليج العقبة, transliterated: Khalyj al-'Aqabah) is a wide gulf between the Sinai Peninsula in Egypt and west of the Arabian Peninsula in Saudi Arabia. The gulf is an extension of the Red Sea. It is 170 kilometres (110 mi) long and 26 km (16 mi) wide. At this northern end of the Gulf are three cities: Taba in Egypt, Eilat in Israel, and Aqaba in Jordan.

In Hebrew the gulf is called the Gulf of Eilat (Hebrew: מפרץ אילת, transliterated: Mifratz Eilat; Yiddish: אילת איינגאס).

Images for kids

  • Gulf of Suez from orbit 2007

    The Sinai Peninsula separating the Gulf of Suez to the west and the Gulf of Aqaba, to the east.

  • Aqaba3

    The city of Aqaba is the largest on the gulf

  • Hilton hotel taba egypt

    Taba beach

  • Isle of Graia (crop)

    "Isle of Graia Gulf of Akabah Arabia Petraea", 1839 lithograph of a trade caravan by Louis Haghe from an original by David Roberts.

  • Gulf of Eilat

    A resort on the Gulf of Aqaba

  • Sea goldies swimming next to a coral, the Red Sea, Gulf of Eilat, Israel.

    Red Sea coral and marine fish


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