Egyptian Mediterranean coast ساحل البحر الأبيض المتوسط | |
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The Egyptian Mediterranean coast (Arabic:ساحل / ضفة البحر الأبيض المتوسط, Sāḥil / Ḍiffa al-Baḥr al-Abyaḍ al-Mutawassiṭ) or Egyptian North coast (Arabic:الساحل الشمالي, as-Sāḥil al-Shimālī) is the northern limit Egypt. There are several port cities, a few holiday resorts and numerous settlements with holiday apartments.
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Map of the Egyptian Mediterranean coast
- 2 Marsā Maṭrūḥ - Capital of the governorate Maṭrūḥ
- 3 Alexandria including el-Muntazah
- 4 Abū Qīr (Canopus) - small town in the east of Alexandria
- 5 Balṭīm - City and resort on the northern tip of the Nile deltas
- 6 Raʾs el-Barr - resort
- 7 Port Said - Port city at the northern end of the Suez Canal
- 8 Port Fuad - Sister city of Port Said
- 9 El-Arish - Capital of the governorate North Sinai
- 10 Rafaḥ - Border town to the Gaza Strip
The governorates border on the Mediterranean Alexandria, el-Buḥeira, Dumyāṭ, ed-Daqahlīya, Kafr esch-Sheikh, Maṭrūḥ and North Sinai.
Holiday settlements
- 11 Marina el-Alamein (Porto Marina)
Almost the entire coast west of Alexandria is covered with holiday resorts for locals.
Other goals
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ʿAgība Beach
Mārīnā el-ʿAlamein
- 1 ʿAgība Beach - Beach to the west Marsā Maṭrūḥ.
- 12 el-ʿAlamein - The site of battles during World War II. Several large military cemeteries.
- 13 Abū Ṣīr (Taposiris magna) - archaeological site of a Greco-Roman city with a temple.
- 14 Zāwiyat Umm er-Racham - Temple of Ramses ’II. West of Marsā Maṭrūḥ.
- 15 Sīdī Barrānī - Small town with a large proportion of sedentary Bedouins in the population, about 135 kilometers west of Marsā Maṭrūḥ.
- 16 eḍ-Ḍabʿa - City west of Sīdī ʿAbd er-Raḥman.
- 17 Sīdī ʿAbd er-Raḥman - Village and port about ten kilometers west of el-ʿAlamein.
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- monastery Deir Abū Mīnā - Coptic Monastery, a World Heritage Site.
- El-ʿArab Castle - City south of Lake Maryūṭ, six kilometers from the Mediterranean coast.
- Dumyāṭ (Damietta) - Dumyāṭ
- Rashid (Rosetta) - Near town, in Rashid Castle, the Rosetta Stone was found by Napoleonic troops. But more important is the closed ensemble of town houses from the 16th to 19th centuries.