Sea
Red Sea
The Red Sea was one of the medieval Seven Seas, and is a textbook example of a sea: a stretch of ocean partly enclosed by land.
Source: oceanservice.noaa.gov
Find Red Sea on the mapWhere it is
On the Atlas Quest map, the Red Sea label sits at 19.9° N, 38.5° E, in the Northern and Eastern Hemispheres.
Coordinates, names: Natural Earth, public domain.
Nearby places
The closest other places with pages here, measured between map label points:
- Dead Sea — about 1,300 km north
- Mediterranean Sea — about 1,800 km north-west
- Strait of Hormuz — about 2,000 km north-east
- Africa — about 2,000 km south-west
Play with it
- Today’s daily geography challenge — one shared round, playable offline.
- Guess the country by its shape — six guesses, with distance and direction after each.
- Start with easy questions — familiar countries, hints and no time limit.