What the records say
- When
- 2000
- Kind
- Territorial change
- Where
- Halaib Triangle
- Coordinates
- 22.30° N, 35.50° E
- Process
- conquest
- Type
- Conquest (armed force)
- Pop
- 5000
- Area km2
- 20580
- Gaining
- Egypt
- Losing
- Sudan
Placed at the area, not an exact site.
Halaib Triangle
Disputed territory between Egypt and Sudan
The Halaib Triangle is an area of land measuring 20,580 square kilometres (7,950 mi2) located on the Northeast African coast of the Red Sea. The area, which takes its name from the town of Halaib, is created by the difference in the Egypt–Sudan border between the "political boundary" set in 1899 by the Anglo-Egyptian Condominium, which runs along the 22nd parallel north, and the "administrative boundary" set by the B…
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The source
- COW Territorial Change v6Correlates of War ProjectCorrelates of War: free use with citation
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