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Can you name the countries which border the Red Sea?

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Red Sea Countries Quiz

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Created Nov 14, 2011 in Geography
Featured Nov 17, 2011
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	deugea:	Nov 17th, 2011 at 05:12 GMT	23 points
	When I clicked on the quiz from the Sporcle home page, I thought it would be a simple list of bordering countries. I didn't realize there would be a map. So much simpler!

	iceman1731:	Nov 17th, 2011 at 05:26 GMT	17 points
	They should do a quiz like this with all major seas and oceans.

	Wolfie0890:	Nov 17th, 2011 at 05:31 GMT	1 point
	The description of this quiz is priceless.

	pfrijiritr:	Nov 17th, 2011 at 05:42 GMT	0 points
	So upon accidentally grouping the phrase as Red (Sea Countries), one would wonder what political division of the water is red.

	sennomulo:	Nov 17th, 2011 at 07:53 GMT	13 points
	Sorry for the nitpick, but we should see a little bit of the Sudan-South Sudan border on this map.

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	chevand:	Nov 17th, 2011 at 08:35 GMT	14 points
	I could see someone making the case either way for the inclusion of Israel and Jordan, based on whether you want to count the Gulf of Aqaba as part of the Red Sea. That's debatable. However, I REALLY don't think Somalia should be included. Just because they're connected by the Bab-el-Mandeb, that doesn't mean the Red Sea and the Gulf of Aden aren't two entirely different bodies of water. Somalia doesn't border the Red Sea-- it borders the Gulf of Aden, and the Indian Ocean.

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	triviapaul:	Nov 17th, 2011 at 11:15 GMT	10 points
	I'm with chevand, I can't see how Somalia borders the Red Sea

	ArtFever:	Nov 17th, 2011 at 11:42 GMT	2 points
	Way to copy somebody else's comment from the archives, chevand...

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	survivorfan2000:	Nov 17th, 2011 at 12:12 GMT	6 points
	How is Somalia part of the Red Sea? It touches the Gulf of Aden. So lewislotr89 I don't know what your deal is. Maybe you don't have a girlfriend or something. So keep it to your self alright.

	pgrossma:	Nov 17th, 2011 at 14:07 GMT	4 points
	I think it would be helpful if the countries we aren't supposed to name were greyed out, I spent a lot of time trying to figure out how I was misspelling Ethiopia (Ehtiopea, Etheopia, Etheopea...) before I realized that you were only looking for Countries that had a coastline on the Red Sea, but then you included Somalia also. confusing quiz.

	eab21:	Nov 17th, 2011 at 14:33 GMT	1 point
	Disappointed that Djibouti is the least guessed answer.

	Ayzmo:	Nov 17th, 2011 at 15:14 GMT	2 points
	Djibouti is my eternal curse.

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	treblat:	Nov 17th, 2011 at 16:00 GMT	10 points
	shake Djibouti!

	dancastro:	Nov 17th, 2011 at 16:42 GMT	0 points
	To some comments debating about the Gulf of Aqaba: if the Gulf of Aqaba is excluded from the Red Sea, then the Gulf of Suez (the other branch, west of the Sinai peninsula) also should be. Therefore, Moses (who most likely crossed the Gulf of Suez) wouldn't have technically crossed the Red Sea. Those who believe literally in the Bible wouldn't like this idea very much.

	mt430:	Nov 17th, 2011 at 20:23 GMT	5 points
	Fun little quiz, but i'll agree about Somalia, I don't think it should be on the quiz for reasons already stated above. Heck, some might argue where the Red Sea ends and the Gulf of Aden begins, and say that Djibouti shouldn't be on either

	TL333s:	Nov 18th, 2011 at 02:26 GMT	1 point
	More concerned about the lack of South Sudan border.

	ChileNoseJam:	Nov 18th, 2011 at 02:36 GMT	2 points
	@dancastro - isn't the biblical reference to the "Red Sea" supposedly a mistranslation of "sea of reeds", part of the Nile delta? I'm not a Bible scholar but I think I read that somewhere. As to the quiz itself, the map really makes it too easy; asking for the list without it would be better.

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	PK9:	Nov 18th, 2011 at 23:35 GMT	1 point
	I agree about Somalia. I think Israel and Jordan are okay, because in general smaller bodies of water are considered subsections of the larger body of water that they are attached to. Like the Gulf of Mexico is part of the Atlantic Ocean.

	ubeor:	Nov 19th, 2011 at 02:40 GMT	1 point
	I recommend making Somalia a bonus answer, with the footnote "if the Gulf of Aden is included".

	climber_v12:	Nov 19th, 2011 at 08:14 GMT	2 points
	@dancastro: What body of water Moses and the Israelites crossed has got nothing to do with what it's called today, but what it was called then. @chilenosejam: I doubt that.

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