Editing Halaib Triangle (section)

==Settlements==
The town of [[Halaib]] lies on the Red Sea coast. The major town in the area is [[Abu Ramad]] which lies {{convert|30|km|mi}} north west of Halaib on the coast. Abu Ramad is the last destination of the buses that connect the area to Cairo and the other cities of Egypt such as [[Aswan]], [[Marsa Alam]] and [[Qena]]. The only other populated place is the small village of Hadarba, south east of Halaib town on the coast.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.fao.org/ag/locusts/oldsite/PDFs/egysudp1.pdf |title=1st Joint Survey Egypt/Sudan border |access-date=2017-03-05}}</ref> [[Alshalateen]] is an Egyptian town just on the northern administrative boundary. The closest Sudanese town south of the disputed area is Osief (Marsa Osief), located {{convert|26|km|mi}} south of latitude 22, the political border line claimed by Egypt based on the 1899 agreement.