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maritime region
Close ✕The Red Sea cable corridor
A sea about 2,000 km long and, at its southern gate, some tens of kilometres wide, through which the great majority of cable traffic between Europe and Asia passes.
20.0, 38.5 · regional · a telegraph route from the 1860s; the principal Europe–Asia cable corridor to the present
On the world
- A place in: The Cables Beneath · 6 places
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Connections
- is adjacent to of The Egyptian cable land crossing — The land crossing begins where the Red Sea corridor ends, at landing stations on the Gulf of Suez coast.
- instance of The cable chokepoint — A cable from Europe to Asia either takes this corridor or adds many thousands of kilometres around Africa.
- is passes through of SEA-ME-WE 5 — The route enters the Red Sea through the Bab el-Mandeb and runs its length, landing in Djibouti, Yemen and Saudi Arabia on the way.
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