Red Sea

"The Red Sea is also the Erythraean Sea. Just as what the ancient Greeks thought. So many people were thinking about the Erythraean Sea, a sea that is just east of Africa, and now look at that. The Nile River Coalition is waging war against the Gulf Cooperation Council."

--Su Ji-Hoon, Blood on the Red Sea

The Red Sea (also the Erythraean Sea) is a seawater inlet of the Indian Ocean, lying between Africa and Asia. The connection to the ocean is in the south through the Bab el Mandeb strait and the Gulf of Aden. To the north lie the Sinai Peninsula, the Gulf of Aqaba, and the Gulf of Suez (leading to the Suez Canal). The Red Sea is a Global 200 ecoregion. The sea is underlain by the Red Sea Rift which is part of the Great Rift Valley.