Which desert occupies most of Egypt’s Sinai Peninsula?

The Sinai Desert occupies most of Egypt’s Sinai Peninsula.

The peninsula lies between the Mediterranean Sea to the north and the Red Sea’s Gulf of Suez and Gulf of Aqaba to the south and east. Much of its interior is arid desert, with rugged mountains in the south and sandy or gravelly plains farther north.

Mount Sinai, traditionally identified with the biblical mountain associated with Moses, rises in the southern peninsula. The region also contains Saint Catherine’s Monastery, founded in the sixth century near Mount Sinai.

The Sinai Desert is sometimes confused with Egypt’s Western Desert, which lies west of the Nile and includes the major oases of the Libyan Desert. Sinai is geographically separate, lying east of the Suez Canal.