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The Halaib Triangle is an area of land measuring 20,580 square kilometres (7,950 sq mi) located on the Northeast African coast of the Red Sea.The area, which takes its name from the town of Halaib, is created by the difference in the Egypt–Sudan border between the "political boundary" set in 1899 by the Anglo-Egyptian Condominium, which runs along the 22nd parallel north, and the ...
Egypt asserts the political boundary, and Sudan asserts the administrative boundary, with the result that the Halaib Triangle is claimed by both and Bir Tawil by neither. In 2014, author Alastair Bonnett described Bir Tawil as the only place on Earth that was habitable but was not claimed by any recognised government. [2]
Since Sudan claims the amended border of 1902, it also claims the Halaib Triangle and the Wadi Halfa Salient, while no country claims the Bir Tawil area, making it de facto a terra nullius. While there have been disputes about the Halaib Triangle and military occupation by Egypt, the small area of the Wadi Halfa Salient remained out of the ...
It is located 520 km (320 mi) south of Hurghada and is controlled as the administrative center of all Egyptian territory [citation needed] up to the border between Egypt and Sudan, including the villages of: Abu Ramad, 125 km (78 mi) to the southeast; Halaib, 165 km (103 mi) to the southeast; Ras Hadarba 200 km (120 mi) to the southeast.
Halaib' (Arabic: حلايب, romanized: Ḥalāyib [ħæˈlæːjeb]), is a Red Sea port and town located in the Halaib Triangle, a disputed area between Egypt and Sudan. It is about 20 km (12 mi) southeast of the ruins of the medieval port ʽAydhab.
The islands are located in the Halaib Triangle, which is claimed by both Sudan and Egypt, as part of an ongoing border dispute. Since the 1990s, the islands have been occupied by Egypt, and so the islands are de facto administered by Egypt. They remain, however, to be claimed by Sudan. Siyal Islands from space
Sudan's relations with Ethiopia reached a low in 1995 following Sudanese complicity in the attempted assassination of Egyptian president Hosni Mubarak as he was visiting Addis Ababa. [1] The assassination incident and its aftermath was used by both Egypt and Ethiopia to seize lands in Sudan in 1995 ( Halaib triangle on the border with Egypt and ...
ʿAydhab was occupied by the Beja before its conquest by Fatimid Egypt in the 10th century. [1] It was located about 20 km north of the modern port Halaib. [2] Abulfeda gave its coordinates as 21°N, 58°E: [3] it is actually located at 22°19'N, 36°28'E. The site was identified in January 1896 by the English explorer Theodore Bent. [4]