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The main ports along the gulf are Aden, Balhaf, Bir Ali, Mukalla, and Shokra in Yemen; Djibouti City in Djibouti; Zeila in Somaliland, Berbera in Somaliland, and Bosaso in Somalia. In antiquity , the gulf was a thriving area of international trade between Ptolemaic Egypt and Rome in the west and Classical India , its Indonesian colonies , and ...
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The Guardafui Channel (Arabic: مضيق غواردافوي, Somali: Marinka Gardafuul) is an oceanic strait off the tip of the Horn of Africa that lies between the Puntland region of Somalia and the Socotra governorate of Yemen to the west of the Arabian Sea. [1] It connects the Gulf of Aden to the north with the Indian Ocean to the south.
The coastline of Somalia has different conditions throughout its length. Being the second-longest in Africa, this coastline is the easternmost coastline of continental Africa, comprises part of the north-western coastline of the Indian Ocean, and is the nearest coastline to the Socotra Islands, which are part of Yemen.
The following outline is provided as an overview of and topical guide to Somalia: Somalia – country located in the Horn of Africa . It is bordered by Ethiopia to the west, Djibouti to the northwest, the Gulf of Aden to the north, the Guardafui Channel and Somali Sea to the east, and Kenya to the southwest.
An enlargeable topographic map of Yemen. Geography of Yemen. Yemen is: a country; Location: Northern Hemisphere and Eastern Hemisphere; Eurasia. Asia. Southwest Asia; Middle East. Arabian Peninsula; Time zone: UTC+03; Extreme points of Yemen High: Jabal An-Nabi Shu'ayb 3,666 m (12,028 ft) Low: Arabian Sea 0 m; Land boundaries: 1,746 km Saudi ...
Yemen, [a] officially the Republic of Yemen, [b] is a country in West Asia. [11] Located in southern Arabia, it borders Saudi Arabia to the north, Oman to the northeast, the Red Sea to the west, the Gulf of Aden to the south, and the southeasten part of the Arabian sea to the east, sharing maritime borders with Eritrea, Djibouti and Somalia across the Horn of Africa.
Map of Oman from 1979, showing the Yemen border as undefined. The far east of what is today Yemen historically formed the Sultanate of Mahra, which became part of Britain's Aden Protectorate in 1866, though retaining a degree of autonomy. [2] In this period Oman was under an informal British protectorate.