The Halaib Triangle (from Wikipedia): The Halaib Triangle (Arabic: مُثَلَّث حَلَايِب, romanized: Muthallath Ḥalāyib; Egyptian and Sudanese Musallas Ḥalāyib pronounced [muˈsællæs ħɑˈlɑːjɪb]), is an area of land measuring 20,580 square kilometres (7,950 sq mi) located on the Northeast African coast of the Red Sea. The area, which takes its name from the town of Halaib, is created by the difference in the Egypt–Sudan border between the "political boundary" set in 1899 by the Anglo-Egyptian Condominium, which runs along the 22nd parallel north, and the "administrative boundary" set by the British in 1902, which gave administrative responsibility for an area of land north of the line to Sudan, which was an Anglo-Egyptian client at the time. With the independence of Sudan in 1956, both Egypt and the Sudan claimed sovereignty over the area. The area has been considered to be a part of the Sudan's Red Sea State, and was included in local elections until the late 1980s. In 1994 the Egyptian military moved to take control of the area as a part of Red Sea Governorate, and Egypt been actively investing in it since then. Egypt has been recently categorical in rejecting international arbitration or even political negotiations regarding the area.
The description of the area as a "triangle" is a rough approximation. Only the southern 290-kilometre (180 mi) demarcation, which follows latitude 22°, is a straight line. While the whole area is north of the 22-degree line, a smaller area south of latitude 22°, referred to as Bir Tawil, joins the Halaib Triangle at its westernmost point along the latitude line – neither Sudan nor Egypt claims Bir Tawil.
The area is sometimes referred to in Egypt as the "Sudan Government Administration Area" or SGAA.
The Halaib Triangle
Halayeb Village, Halaib Triangle
The Halayeb area is done.
Exiting Halayeb Village
Driving through The Halaib Triangle
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