Bab-el-Mandeb
The Bab-el-Mandeb is a strait between Yemen on the Arabian Peninsula and Djibouti and Eritrea in the Horn of Africa. It connects the Red Sea to the Gulf of Aden and by extension the Indian Ocean.| Tap on a place to explore it |
- Type: Strait
- Description: strait located between Yemen on the Arabian Peninsula, and Djibouti and Eritrea in the Horn of Africa
- Also known as: “Bāb al Mandab”, “Detroit de Bab el Mandeb”, “Gate of Tears”, “Madiq Bab al-Mandab”, “Madq Bāb al Mandab”, and “Mandeb Strait”
- Historically known as: “Large Strait”
Bab-el-Mandeb
- Category: body of water
- Location: Obock Region, Djibouti, East Africa, Africa
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In Other Languages
From Afrikaans to Yue Chinese—“Bab-el-Mandeb” goes by many names.
- Afrikaans: “Bab-el-Mandeb”
- Arabic: “باب المندب”
- Arabic: “مضيق باب المندب”
- Arabic: “مضيق عدن”
- Armenian: “Բաբ էլ-Մանդեբի նեղուց”
- Armenian: “Բաբելմանդեբի նեղուց”
- Asturian: “Bab el-Mandeb”
- Azerbaijani: “Babül-Məndəb”
- Azerbaijani: “Babülməndəb boğazı”
- Bashkir: “Баб-әл-Мәндәб боғаҙы”
- Basque: “Bab al-Mandab”
- Basque: “Bab el Mandeb”
- Basque: “Bab el-Mandeb”
- Belarusian: “Баб-эль-Мандэбская пратока”
- Belarusian: “Баб-эль-Мандэбскі праліў”
- Bengali: “বাব এল মান্দেব”
- Bosnian: “Bab el-Mandeb”
- Bosnian: “Bab-el-Mandeb”
- Breton: “Bab al-Mandab”
- Bulgarian: “Баб ел Мандеб”
- Bulgarian: “Баб ел-Мандеб”
- Bulgarian: “Бабелмандебски пролив”
- Catalan: “Bab al Mandeb”
- Catalan: “Bab al-Mandab”
- Catalan: “Bab al-Mandeb”
- Catalan: “Bab el-Mandeb”
- Catalan: “Bab el-Màndeb”
- Catalan: “Estret de Bab al-Mandab”
- Cebuano: “Bab el Mandeb”
- Central Kurdish: “بابوولمەندەب”
- Chechen: “Баб-эль-Мандебан хидоькъе”
- Chinese: “Bab-el-Mandeb Hái-kiap”
- Chinese: “巴布-埃尔-曼德”
- Chinese: “曼德海峡”
- Chinese: “曼德海峽”
- Croatian: “Bab el Mandeb”
- Croatian: “Bab el-Mandeb”
- Croatian: “Bab-el-Mandeb”
- Czech: “Bab el Mandeb”
- Czech: “Bab-al-Mandab”
- Czech: “Mandeb”
- Danish: “Bab el Mandeb”
- Danish: “Bab el-Mandeb”
- Danish: “Bab-el-Mandeb”
- Dutch: “Bab el Mandeb”
- Esperanto: “Bab al-Mandab”
- Esperanto: “Funebra-Porda Markolo”
- Estonian: “Bab el Mandeb”
- Estonian: “Bab el Mandebi väin”
- Finnish: “Bab el Mandeb”
- French: “Bab el Mandeb”
- French: “Bab-el-Mandeb”
- Galician: “Bab el-Mandeb”
- Galician: “Bab-el-Mandeb”
- Georgian: “ბაბ-ელ-მანდების სრუტე”
- Georgian: “ბაბ–ელ–მანდების სრუტე”
- German: “Bab Al Mandab”
- German: “Bab al-Mandab”
- German: “Bāb al-Mandab”
- German: “Bab el Mandeb”
- German: “Bab el-Mandab”
- German: “Bab el-Mandeb”
- German: “Bab-el-Mandeb”
- German: “Tor der Tränen”
- Greek: “Μπαμπ ελ Μαντέμπ”
- Hebrew: “באב אל מאנדב”
- Hebrew: “באב אל מנדב”
- Hebrew: “באב אל-מנדב”
- Hebrew: “באב אלמנדב”
- Hebrew: “בב אל מנדב”
- Hebrew: “שער הדמעות”
- Hindi: “बाब अल-मनदेब जलडमरू”
- Hindi: “बाब अल-मन्देब जलडमरूमध्य”
- Hindi: “बाब अल-मन्देब जलसन्धि”
- Hindi: “बाब अल-मन्देब”
- Hindi: “बाब-अल-मान्देब”
- Hindi: “बाब-एल-मण्डब जलसन्धि”
- Hungarian: “Báb el-Mandeb”
- Icelandic: “Bab-el-Mandeb”
- Icelandic: “Tárahlið”
- Indonesian: “Bab-el-Mandeb”
- Indonesian: “Selat Bab-el-Mandeb”
- Irish: “Bab-el-Mandeb”
- Italian: “Bab el Mandeb”
- Italian: “Bab el-Mandeb”
- Italian: “Bāb el-Mandeb”
- Italian: “Porta della lamentazione funebre”
- Italian: “Porta delle lacrime”
- Japanese: “バーブ･アルマンデブ海峡”
- Japanese: “バブ・エル・マンデブ海峡”
- Japanese: “バベル・マンデブ海峡”
- Japanese: “バベルマンデブ海峡”
- Japanese: “マンデブ海峡”
- Javanese: “Babul Mandib”
- Kazakh: “Баб әл-Мандеб”
- Kirghiz: “Баб-эль-Мандеб кысыгы”
- Korean: “바브엘만데브 해협”
- Kurdish: “Bab El Mandab”
- Kurdish: “Bab el-Mandab”
- Kurdish: “Bab el-Mendeb”
- Kurdish: “Babu’l-Mendeb”
- Latin: “Babel-Mandelum Fretum”
- Latin: “Porta Lacrimarum”
- Latvian: “Babelmandeba šaurums”
- Latvian: “Bābelmandeba šaurums”
- Latvian: “Babelmandebs”
- Latvian: “Bābelmandebs”
- Lithuanian: “Bab al Mandebas”
- Lithuanian: “Bab el Mandebas”
- Lithuanian: “Bab el Mandebo sąsiauris”
- Macedonian: “Баб ел Мандеб”
- Macedonian: “Баб ел-Мандеб”
- Macedonian: “Баб-ел-Мандеб”
- Malay: “Bab-el-Mandeb”
- Malayalam: “ബാബ്-എൽ-മൻഡേബ്”
- Malayalam: “മൻഡേബ് കടലിടുക്ക്”
- Mazanderani: “بابالمندب”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Bab-el-Mandeb Hái-kiap”
- Mingrelian: “ბაბ-ელ-მანდებიშ საროტი”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Bab al Mandeb”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Bab al-Mandab”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Bab al-Mandeb”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Bab el Mandeb”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Bab el-Mandeb-stredet”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Bab el-Mandeb-sundet”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Bab el-Mandeb”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Bab al-Mandeb-sundet”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Bab al-Mandeb”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Bab el Mandeb”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Bab el-Mandeb-sundet”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Bab el-Mandeb”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “El-Mandeb”
- Norwegian: “Bab el-Mandeb”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Bab-el-Mandeb”
- Persian: “بابالمندب”
- Polish: “Bab al-Mandab”
- Polish: “Cieśnina Bab al-Mandab”
- Portuguese: “Bab el mandeb”
- Portuguese: “Bab-el-Mandeb”
- Portuguese: “Babelmândebe”
- Portuguese: “Estreito de Bab-el-Mandebe”
- Pushto: “باب المندب”
- Romanian: “Strâmtoarea Bab el Mandeb”
- Romanian: “Strâmtoarea Bab el-Mandeb”
- Russian: “Баб-Кекендср”
- Russian: “Баб-эль-Мандеб”
- Russian: “Баб-эль-Мандебский пролив”
- Serbian: “Баб Ал-Мандаб”
- Serbian: “Баб ел Мандеб”
- Serbian: “Баб-ел-Мандеб”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Bab el Mandeb”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Bab-el-Mandeb”
- Slovak: “Báb al Mandab”
- Slovak: “Báb al Mandeb”
- Slovak: “Báb al-Mandab”
- Slovak: “Báb el-Mandeb”
- Slovak: “Bab-al-Mandab”
- Slovenian: “Bab al Mandab”
- Slovenian: “Bab el Mandeb”
- Slovenian: “Bab el Mandeba”
- Slovenian: “Vrata solza”
- South Azerbaijani: “باب المندب”
- Spanish: “Bab el mandeb”
- Spanish: “Bab el-Mandeb”
- Spanish: “Bab-el-mandeb”
- Spanish: “Bab-el-Mandeb”
- Swahili: “Bab el Mandeb”
- Swahili: “Bab-el-Mandab”
- Swedish: “Bab al-Mandab-sundet”
- Swedish: “Bab al-Mandab”
- Swedish: “Bab el-Mandeb”
- Swedish: “Tårarnas port”
- Tajik: “Бобулмандаб”
- Tamil: “பாபுல் மந்தபு”
- Tamil: “பார்ப் அல் மண்டாப் நீரிணை”
- Tamil: “பார்ப் அல் மண்டாப்”
- Tatar: “Баб-әл-Мәндәб бугазы”
- Tatar: “Баб-әл-Мәндәп бугазы”
- Tatar: “Бабелмәндәб”
- Telugu: “బాబ్-ఎల్-మండేబ్”
- Thai: “Bab-el-Mandeb”
- Thai: “ช่องแคบบับเอลมันเดบ”
- Thai: “ช่องแคบแมนเดบ”
- Thai: “บาบ เอล แมนเดบ”
- Thai: “บาบุลมันดับ”
- Turkish: “Bab El Mandeb”
- Turkish: “Bab el Mendeb”
- Turkish: “Babü’l Mendep Boğazı”
- Turkish: “Babü’l Mendep”
- Turkish: “Babülmendeb”
- Turkish: “Babülmendep Boğazı”
- Turkmen: “Bab-el-Mandeb bogazy”
- Turkmen: “Bab-el-Mandeb”
- Ukrainian: “Баб-ель-Мандебська протока”
- Urdu: “آبنائے باب المندب”
- Urdu: “باب المندب”
- Uzbek: “Bob ul-mandab boʻgʻozi”
- Uzbek: “Bob ul-Mandab boʻgʻozi”
- Vietnamese: “Bab al-Mandab”
- Vietnamese: “Bab-el-Mandeb”
- Waray (Philippines): “Bab-el-Mandeb”
- Welsh: “Bab al Mandab”
- Welsh: “Bab al-Mandab”
- Welsh: “Bab el-Mandeb”
- Welsh: “Bab-el-Mandeb”
- Western Panjabi: “آبنائے باب المندب”
- Wu Chinese: “曼德海峡”
- Yue Chinese: “曼德海峽”
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