Halaib ( ) is a

Red Sea The Red Sea is a sea inlet of the Indian Ocean, lying between Africa and Asia. Its connection to the ocean is in the south, through the Bab-el-Mandeb Strait and the Gulf of Aden. To its north lie the Sinai Peninsula, the Gulf of Aqaba, and th ...

port and town located in the

Halaib Triangle The Halaib Triangle is an area of land measuring located on the Northeast African coast of the Red Sea. The area, which takes its name from the town of Halaib, is created by the difference in the Egypt–Sudan border between the "political boun ...

, a disputed area between

Egypt Egypt ( , ), officially the Arab Republic of Egypt, is a country spanning the Northeast Africa, northeast corner of Africa and Western Asia, southwest corner of Asia via the Sinai Peninsula. It is bordered by the Mediterranean Sea to northe ...

and

Sudan Sudan, officially the Republic of the Sudan, is a country in Northeast Africa. It borders the Central African Republic to the southwest, Chad to the west, Libya to the northwest, Egypt to the north, the Red Sea to the east, Eritrea and Ethiopi ...

. It is about southeast of the ruins of the medieval port ʽAydhab.

Name

Alternative spellings for the name include ''Halayeb'', ''Hala'ib'', and ''Halayib''.

Geography

In the Halaib region,

Afrotropical The Afrotropical realm is one of the Earth's eight biogeographic realms. It includes Sub-Saharan Africa, the southern Arabian Peninsula, the island of Madagascar, and the islands of the western Indian Ocean. It was formerly known as the Ethiopi ...

elements reach their northernmost limits at Gabal Elba, making it a unique region among the regions dominating

North Africa North Africa (sometimes Northern Africa) is a region encompassing the northern portion of the African continent. There is no singularly accepted scope for the region. However, it is sometimes defined as stretching from the Atlantic shores of t ...

n ecosystems. There is also dense cover of

acacia ''Acacia'', commonly known as wattles or acacias, is a genus of about of shrubs and trees in the subfamily Mimosoideae of the pea family Fabaceae. Initially, it comprised a group of plant species native to Africa, South America, and Austral ...

mangrove A mangrove is a shrub or tree that grows mainly in coastal saline water, saline or brackish water. Mangroves grow in an equatorial climate, typically along coastlines and tidal rivers. They have particular adaptations to take in extra oxygen a ...

s and other shrubs, in addition to endemic species of plants such as ''

Biscutella elbensis ''Biscutella'' is a genus of over 50 species of flowering plants in the family Brassicaceae.Appel, O. & Al-Shehbaz, I. (2003). Cruciferae. In Kubitzki, K. (Series Editor):"The Families and Genera of Vascular Plants", Vol.5: K. Kubitzki & C. Baye ...

''. The highest peaks in the area are Mount Elba (), Mount Shellal (), Mount Shendib () and Mount Shendodai ().

Climate

References

Notes Populated places in Red Sea Governorate {{Sudan-geo-stub

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