The Bab-el-Mandeb (Arabic: باب المندب, lit. 'Gate of Grief/Tears') is a strait between Yemen on the Arabian Peninsula and Djibouti and Eritrea in the Horn of Africa, connecting the Red Sea to the Gulf of Aden and by extension the Indian Ocean.
The Bab-el-Mandeb (Arabic: باب المندب, lit. 'Gate of Grief/Tears') is a strait between Yemen on the Arabian Peninsula and Djibouti and Eritrea in the Horn of Africa, connecting the Red Sea to the Gulf of Aden and by extension the Indian Ocean.
Tihamah or Tihama (Arabic: تِهَامَةُ Tihāmah) is the Red Sea coastal plain of the Arabian Peninsula from the Gulf of Aqaba to the Bab el Mandeb.