In which continent is the Sinai Peninsula?
Mongolia

Dear mongolia-ga;

Thank you for allowing me an opportunity to answer your interesting
question.

Sinai Peninsula is located in the corridor between the African and
Asian continent. It is made up of 61,000 square kilometers of desert,
mountains and small oases. The vast majority of the Sinai Peninsula is
located in Egypt on the African continent.

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Best regards;
Tutuzdad-ga


INFORMATION SOURCES

INFOPLEASE
http://www.infoplease.com/atlas/country/sinaipeninsula.html
http://www.infoplease.com/ipa/A0107484.html

SINAI PENINSULA MAP
http://www.safariegypt.com/sinai/sinaimap.html

“Britannica Student Encyclopedia”
http://www.britannica.com/ebi/article?eu=295993&query=islam&ct=ebi

TOUR EGYPT
http://www.touregypt.net/sinai.htm

“A Brief Look At The Sinai”
http://touregypt.net/magazine/mag06012001/magf2a.htm


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Clarification of Answer by tutuzdad-ga on 24 Feb 2003 13:29 PST

Dear mongolia-ga;

As you can see, occasionally, for whatever reason, non-researching
visitors sometimes disagree with the research presented even though
they have not researched the issue themselves. I not only stand by my
research, I can easily back it up.

As you can clearly see on this additional map, Egypt is entirely upon
the African continent. Just to the right of the main body of the
country of Egypt, you will see the Sinai Peninsula. It too, is located
on the African continent, except for the portion that forms a junction
with the easternmost mainland, which happens to be on the Asian
continent. Egypt controls the majority of the peninsula and Israel
controls a small portion of it in the East

http://www.worldatlas.com/webimage/countrys/africa/eg.htm

Regardless of what our visiting commenter “rumplestiltskin-ga” has
said, my answer is indeed correct:

Lat: 29 30 00 N  degrees minutes - Lat: 29.500  decimal degrees 
Long: 034 00 00 E  degrees minutes - Long: 34.000  decimal degrees

You can clearly see by this full record display of the Sinai Peninsula
provided by the “Getty Thesaurus of Geographic Names” (half way down
this page) that the peninsula is in fact located on the AFRICAN
CONTINENT as my earlier research factually indicated.

http://www.getty.edu/vow/TGNFullDisplay?find=sinai+peninsula&place=&nation=&prev_page=1&english=Y&subjectid=7016814

I must apologize for the confusion. The person making the erroneous
comments is not a researcher and is not the one who worked on your
question. Unfortunately however, we have no control over the comments
made by non-researching visitors.

I have an email out about the official boundary question you asked. If
an answer comes in I will post it here for you.

Regards;
Tutuzdad-ga

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Request for Answer Clarification by mongolia-ga on 26 Feb 2003 05:05 PST

Dear Tutuzdad

 I must admit I am even more confused than ever. Perhaps what would easily 
 answer my question would be a map of the general area of the Sinai Penisula
 with the boundary between ASIA and AFRICA clearly marked.

 I am also assuming this is NOT the same boundary as that between Israel and 
 Africa.

 Regards
 
 Mongolia

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Clarification of Answer by tutuzdad-ga on 26 Feb 2003 06:39 PST

Because of the volitility of the region and the ever changing
political dynamics, it appears that this boundary tends to be
interpreted differently from week to week or month to month (this is
my assumption). Howeever, I am not going to speculate as to the
actual, OFFICIAL boundary. I have emails out seeking the information
and hopefully I will be able to get a solid answer according to what
the "majority of the academic world" considers the official bondary as
a general rule. I'll post it when it comes in.

Regards;
tutuzdad-ga

Dear Rumplestiltskin

 Thank you for your answer and clarification. Just as an added
question is there ia defined official boundary in Eygpt between Africa
and Asia.
 
  Thanks
   
   Mongolia

The researcher's answer is incorrect.  The Sinai Peninsula is located
in South East ASIA. This can be proved by looking at the Encyclopedia
Britannica reference that the researcher cited.  It states "The Arab
Republic of Egypt occupies the northeastern corner of the African
continents AND the Sinai Peninsula."  If you analyse that sentence
correctly, it means that the Sinai Peninsula is outside Africa.  (^_^)