The Bab Iskender (Arabic: باب اسكندر‎ Iskander's Strait, also variously known as the Eastern strait, the small strait, the narrow pass or the small pass, is the eastern section 2 miles (3.2 km) wide and 16 fathoms (29 m) of the Bab-el-Mandeb straits, which separates Ras Menheli, Yemen, on the Arabian Peninsula and Ras Siyyan, Djibouti, on the Horn of Africa.