It forms the shape of an inverted triangle, the sharp apex of which points towards Eilat, a city in southern Israel on the shores of the Gulf of Aqaba on the Red Sea.
The western side of the Negev adjoins the desert of the Sinai Peninsula (a peninsula in Egypt and the only part of the country located in Asia), extending into the Judean Desert, the Judean Mountains, and the coastal plain. Its eastern border is the Arabah Valley (the geographical area south of the Dead Sea basin, forming part of the border between Israel and Jordan).
