Red Sea, Middle East, True Colour Satellite Image. True colour satellite image of the Red Sea, a seawater inlet of the Indian Ocean, lying between Africa and Asia. The connection to the ocean is in the south through the Gulf of Aden. In the north, there is the Gulf of Aqaba and the Gulf of Suez, leading to the Suez Canal. Bordering countries are Egypt, Israel, Jordan, Saudi Arabia, Yemen, Djibouti, Eritrea and Sudan. Composite image using LANDSAT 5 data.