Rafah Yam

Rafah Yam is a destroyed locality in , . Rafah Yam is situated nearby to the locality , as well as near the destroyed locality .

Places of Interest

Highlights include Rafah.

Ruins
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is a city in North Sinai and Egypt's eastern border with the , . It is the capital of center in , and is situated on the eastern Mediterranean coast of Egypt.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Canada Camp and Yamit.

Locality
was a Palestinian refugee camp in the northern near , formed in 1972 and evacuated in 2000. The Camp was named after the Canadian contingent of the United Nations Emergency Force, which formerly had a camp at the location.

Locality
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was an Israeli settlement in the northern part of the with a population of about 2,500 people. was established during Israel's occupation of the peninsula from the end of the 1967 Six-Day War until that part of the Sinai was handed over to in April 1982, as part of the terms of the 1979 Egypt–Israel peace treaty. is situated 5 km southwest of Rafah Yam.

Village
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is a fertile area for agriculture in the . It is along the coast and has many sand dunes. is fourteen kilometers long and one kilometer wide, making up about 3% of the Gaza Strip. is situated 7 km northeast of Rafah Yam.

Rafah Yam

Latitude
31.3° or 31° 18′ north
Longitude
34.21667° or 34° 13′ east
Elevation
41 metres (135 feet)
Open location code
8G3P76X8+XM
Geo­Names ID
281099
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