2026-04-17 13:24 UTC
2/ Not far from the Strait at the entrance to the Red Sea we find the Bab-el-Mandeb passage between Yemen 🇾🇪 on the Arabian Peninsula and Djibouti 🇩🇯and Eritrea 🇪🇷 in the Horn of Africa
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bab-el-Mandeb
Nearby is Somaliland, which declared independence from Somalia 🇸🇴 in 1991 and operates as its own country, but is recognized by only one UN member: Israel 🇮🇱
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Somaliland
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@opencage@en.osm.town 2026-04-17 13:24
3/ At the northern end of the Red Sea we have the Suez Canal, passing through Egypt 🇪🇬. The Canal's critical importance to global logistics and the route from Europe to Asia came into focus a few years ago when it was blocked by a container ship that ran aground. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2021_Suez_Canal_obstruction Our #geoweirdness thread about Egypt: https://en.osm.town/@opencage/115729051480488048