Bab-el-Mandeb

The Bab-el-Mandeb (variously transliterated Mandab or Mandib, and with article "el-" given also as "al-", with or without connecting dashes) meaning "Gate of Tears" in Arabic (باب المندب), is a strait located between Yemen on the Arabian Peninsula and Djibouti and Eritrea, north of Somalia in the Horn of Africa, and connecting the Red Sea to the Gulf of Aden. It is sometimes called the Mandab Strait in English. The strait derives its name from th... more

Also known as:

  • Bab el Mandab,
  • Bab al Mandeb,
  • Bab al Mandib,
  • Bab al Mandab
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  • 43.3333
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