al-Aḥmar, al-Baḥr (English spelling) alAhmar alBahr

Japanese: al-Aḥmar,al-Baḥr(英語表記)alAhmaralBahr
al-Aḥmar, al-Baḥr (English spelling) alAhmar alBahr

...A long, narrow sea between the African continent and the Arabian Peninsula. It is said to have been named the Red Sea because the blue-green algae Trichodesmium sometimes grows so much that the seawater turns red. In Arabic, it is called al-Baḥr al-Aḥmar (Red Sea). It is about 1,900 km long, stretching northwestward, and its maximum width is only about 300 km, but the center is deep, with some places exceeding 2,000 m deep. Geologically, it is part of the Great African Rift Valley in the south and the Jordan Valley, where the Dead Sea is located, in the north, and is a rift that formed when the Arabian Peninsula separated from the African continent.

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Japanese:

…アフリカ大陸とアラビア半島の間にある細長い海。ときおりラン藻のトリコデスミウムが著しく繁殖して海水が赤色をおびることがあるので紅海と名づけられたといわれる。アラビア語でal‐Baḥr al‐Aḥmar(赤い海)という。長さは約1900kmで北西方向にのび,最大幅はわずか約300kmであるが,中央部は深く水深2000mを超えるところもある。地質学的には南はアフリカ大地溝帯,北は死海のあるヨルダン渓谷に連なる地溝の一部で,アラビア半島がアフリカ大陸から分離してできた割れ目である。…

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