Abu Qir Bay


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Abu Qir Bay
The Abu Qir Bay (sometimes transliterated Abukir Bay or Aboukir Bay) (; transliterated: Khalij Abu Qir) is a spacious bay on the Mediterranean Sea in Egypt, lying between Abu Qir (near Alexandria) and the Rosetta mouth of the Nile. It contains a natural gas field, discovered in the 1970s.

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