The Bab Iskender ( '' Iskander's Strait'', also variously known as the Eastern strait, the small strait, the narrow pass or the small pass, is the eastern section of the

Bab-el-Mandeb The Bab-el-Mandeb ( Arabic: , , ) 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. Name The strait derives its name from the dangers a ...

straits, which separates

Ras Menheli Ras Menheli is a point in Yemen on the coast of Bab-el-Mandeb close to the island of Perim Perim ( ar, بريم 'Barīm'', also called Mayyun in Arabic, is a volcanic island in the Strait of Mandeb at the south entrance into the Red Sea, ...

Yemen Yemen (; ar, ٱلْيَمَن, al-Yaman), officially the Republic of Yemen,, ) is a country in Western Asia. It is situated on the southern end of the Arabian Peninsula, and borders Saudi Arabia to the Saudi Arabia–Yemen border, north and ...

, on the Arabian Peninsula from Ras Siyyan,

Djibouti Djibouti, ar, جيبوتي ', french: link=no, Djibouti, so, Jabuuti officially the Republic of Djibouti, is a country in the Horn of Africa, bordered by Somalia to the south, Ethiopia to the southwest, Eritrea in the north, and the Red ...

, on the Horn of Africa. The strait is wide and deep. The Yemeni island of

Perim Perim ( ar, بريم 'Barīm'', also called Mayyun in Arabic, is a volcanic island in the Strait of Mandeb at the south entrance into the Red Sea, off the south-west coast of Yemen and belonging to Yemen. It administratively belongs to Dhub ...

divides the strait into two channels, Bab Iskender and Dact-el-Mayun respectively.William James Lloyd Wharton, John Phillips (1900),
The Red Sea and Gulf of Aden Pilot
' page 230. Great Britain Hydrographic Office. The western section of the straits, Dact-el-Mayun, (also known as the Western strait, the large strait, the large pass or the wide pass) has a width of about and a depth of . The straits are about wide in total. Near the African coast lies a group of smaller islands known as the Seven Brothers.

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Straits of the Indian Ocean Mandeb, Bab-el- Mandeb, Bab-el- Borders of Yemen Borders of Djibouti International straits Straits of Africa Straits of Asia {{Djibouti-geo-stub