IMPORTANT STRAITS

  

NAME	SEPARATES	CONNECTS
Strait of Gibraltar	Europe from Africa	Mediterranean sea with Atlantic ocean.
Strait of Bab – Mandeb	Djibouti (Africa) from Yemen (Asia)	Red sea with gulf of Aden.

COASTS OF AFRICA	COUNTRIES
Grain coast	Sierra Leone and Liberia
Ivory coast	Ivory coast
Gold coast	Ghana
Slave coast	Togo, beanie and Nigeria.

IMPORTANT STRAITS

·         It stretches northwards through Zambia, Malawi (L.nayasa), Tanzania (L. Tanganyika), Kenya and Ethiopia and extends along the red sea to ire and Ethiopia and extends along the red sea to Israel and Jordan for about 5,000 km, most of the lakes fill parts of rift valleys and therefore are long, narrow and deep.

SUEZ CANAL

·         Connects the Mediterranean Sea with the Gulf of Suez and red sea across the low Isthmus of Suez.

·         Total length of canal is 172 Km (107 miles).

·         Sea ports of Port Said on the Mediterranean and Suez on the Gulf of Suez are situated at the opposites ends of the canal.