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Great Fringing Reef, Red Sea, Egypt
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The Great Fringing Reef in the Northern Red Sea in Egyp is a world-renowned coral reef. It's more than 2000 km in length, running along the shoreline of the Gulfs of Aqaba and Suez. It inludes nearly 44 islands, 40 types of sharks and 400 coral species..
Approximately 50% of the fringing reef of Egypt is located with the boundary of declared protected areas (Abu-Gallum, Nabq and Ras Mohamed on the Gulf of Aqaba, Northern Islands, Wadi Gimal and Gabal Alba Protected areas on the coast of the Red Sea).
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