Where is Bab al-Mandab located?

Bab al-Mandab

The Bab al-Mandeb Strait is located between Djibouti and Yemen, separating the Red Sea from the Gulf of Aden, exactly between the coordinates of Djibouti (12°30'16.15″N/43°15'56.84″E) and Yemen (12°40'6.26″N/43°27'25.19″ East), and the distance between the two banks of the Bab al-Mandab Strait is approximately thirty kilometers. That is equivalent to twenty miles, and it is between the Yemeni tip of Ras Minhali on the Asian coast and the point of Ras Sian on the African coast.

The Yemeni island of Perim (Mayun) divides the strait into two parts, a small canal and a larger strait. The eastern canal is called the Bab Iskandar Canal. It is three kilometers wide and thirty meters deep. The Western Channel is called (Daqqa Al Mayon), and its width is twenty-five kilometers and its depth is three hundred and ten metres. In addition to this island, there are some islands near the African coast, but they are small islands called the Seven Brothers Islands. In the Eastern Channel there is a surface current running inland, and there is The Western Channel is a stream of greater strength and depth that runs outwards. The water temperature of the passage ranges from 24 degrees Celsius to 33 degrees Celsius and is therefore considered warm. Therefore, the rate of evaporation ranges from 2200 mm to 3000 mm annually, which are large quantities. The Red Sea is compensated by large quantities of water from the Gulf. Aden in the winter in particular, but in the summer water often comes out of the Red Sea with surface currents, and the amount of water exchange in the Bab al-Mandab Strait is approximately one thousand cubic kilometers entering the Red Sea, and the salinity of the waterway’s water reaches 38 per thousand, and the water rises as a result of the tidal movement to Approximately a meter.

The strait was formed as a result of the separation of the two continents, Africa and Asia, due to the structural movement of the African collapse crater known as the Syrian-African rift, which is the rift that caused the formation of the Red Sea. This rift was formed in the third geological bag in the Miocene and Eocene era.

Bab al-Mandab Strait economically

The economic importance of the Bab al-Mandab Strait increased when the Suez Canal was opened in 1869 AD. When Europe became able to reach India and the countries of East Asia via the White Sea and the Red Sea, this ancient route was shortened by circumventing Africa from the Cape of Good Hope, so the importance of the Suez Canal became It accumulates to become the importance of the Bab al-Mandab Strait, and the discovery of oil increased the importance of the Strait for oil tankers to pass through it to Europe and America.

Yemen is considered to have the most control over the strait due to the presence of Perim Island. In 1982, the United Nations sought to regulate transit in regular waters, and the Jamaica Agreement was drawn up, which was concluded in 1994. There is a project called the Suspension Bridge between Yemen and Djibouti, and if it is completed, it will be the largest bridge. It is suspended in the world, to be the City of Light, and the project has already been started in Djibouti, according to Bin Laden Engineering Company.