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Sinai represents Egypt's Asian part, as the border between Africa and Asia is drawn along the Suez Canal. The peninsula is roughly triangular in shape, bordered by the Mediterranean Sea, the Negev Desert, the Gulf of Aqaba, the Red Sea and the Gulf of Suez. At its tip in the south the Gulf of Aqaba and the Gulf of Suez meet at Ras Mohamed. The peninsula’s outline and mountains are the result from earth's dynamic plate tectonics - the surface sections of the planet's crust that are very slowly separating in some places colliding in others.