Eastern Desert

The Eastern Desert is the part of the Sahara desert that is located east of the Nile river.

It spans 223,000 square kilometres (86,000 sq mi) of North-Eastern Africa and is bordered by the Nile river to the west and the Red Sea and Gulf of Suez to the east. It extends through Egypt, Eritrea, Sudan and Ethiopia. The Eastern Desert is also known as the Red Sea Hills.

The Desert consists of a mountain range which runs parallel to the coast, wide sedimentary plateaus extending from either side of the mountains and the Red Sea coast.

— Wikipedia contributors, "Eastern Desert", Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia.