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English: Topographic map in English of the Red Sea, UTM projection (WGS84 datum). Français : Carte topographique en anglais de la Mer Rouge , projection UTM (WGS84 datum). Note : The background map is a raster image embedded in the SVG file.
The Red Sea serves an important role in the global economy, with cargo vessels traveling between the Indian Ocean and the Mediterranean Sea every year, thus shortening the path between Asia and Europe almost by half (as compared to traveling around Africa via the Atlantic Ocean). [54] 12% of global trade passes through the Red Sea. [55]
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Chokepoints are narrow channels along widely used global sea routes that are critical to global energy security. The Bab el-Mandeb Strait is 26 kilometres (14 nautical miles) wide at its narrowest point, limiting tanker traffic to two 2-mile-wide channels for inbound and outbound shipments. [4] [3]
In maps in which the north-western part of the Indian Ocean is named thus, the Red Sea appears as "Arabian Gulf". The name "Erythraean Sea" was used as well to refer to some gulfs attached to the Indian Ocean, specifically, Gulf of Aden and Gulf of Oman. [7] As a name for the Red Sea, especially after the 19th century
the Red Sea and the Gulf of Aden (Jeddah Convention) Addressing regional freshwater issues is the 1992 Helsinki Convention on the Protection and Use of Transboundary Watercourses and International Lakes (UNECE/Helsinki Water Convention) [26]
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