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D. The Sinai Peninsula lies between the Mediterranean Sea to the north and the Red Sea to the south, and is the only part of Egyptian territory located in Asia as opposed to Africa. The Red Sea separates Africa from Asia.
A. The seawater inlet connects to the ocean through the 20-mile-wide Bab el Mandeb strait and the Gulf of Aden. Scientists theorize that the earliest migration of modern humans out of Africa occurred at the Bab el Mandeb strait roughly 60,000 years ago when the oceans were much lower and the strait was much narrower or dry.
B. Piracy off the Somali coast has become a serious threat to international shipping as the nation plunged into political disarray and economic depression during nearly 20 years of civil war and foreign military interventions.
C. Opened in November 1869, the canal allows water transportation between Europe and southern and eastern Asia without navigating around Africa.