Sehel Island
Sehel Island is located in the Nile, about 2 miles southwest of Aswan in southern Egypt. It is a large island, and is roughly halfway between the city and the upstream Aswan Low Dam.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Island
- Description: Island in the Nile
- Also known as: “Gezîret Siheil”, “Jazirat Siheil”, “Jazirat Suhayl”, “Seheil”, “Seheil Island”, and “Seheil, Sehel, Suhail, Ǧazīrat Suhail”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Elephantine and Aswan Stadium.
Elephantine
Island
Photo: RolandUnger, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Elephantine is an island on the Nile, forming part of the city of Aswan in Upper Egypt. The archaeological digs on the island became a World Heritage Site in 1979, along with other examples of Upper Egyptian architecture, as part of the "Nubian Monuments from Abu Simbel to Philae".
Aswan Stadium
Stadium
Aswan Stadium is a stadium in Aswan, Egypt. It has a capacity of 11,000 spectators. It is the home of Aswan SC.
Unfinished obelisk
Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.
The unfinished obelisk is the largest known ancient obelisk and is located in the northern region of the stone quarries of ancient Egypt in Aswan, Egypt.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Shellal and Aswan.
Shellal
Village
Shellal is a small ancient village on the banks of the Nile, south of Aswan in Upper Egypt. It was the traditional northern frontier of the Nubian region with both the Egyptian Empire and the Roman Empire.
Aswan
Aswan is the southernmost city of Egypt, some 870 km south of Cairo, just below the Aswan Dam and Lake Nasser, with a population of 275,000. Aswan is far more relaxed and smaller than Cairo and Luxor.
Wadi Kubbaniya
Locality
Wadi Kubbaniya is a Late Paleolithic site in Upper Egypt. Archaeologists initially believed that the site held evidence for some of the earliest examples of agriculture. Wadi Kubbaniya is situated 9 km west of Sehel Island.
Sehel Island
- Categories: river island, village, archaeological site, locality, and landform
- Location: Aswan Governorate, Egypt, North Africa, Africa
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Latitude
24.06146° or 24° 3′ 41″ northLongitude
32.87202° or 32° 52′ 19″ eastElevation
114 metres (374 feet)Open location code
7GPJ3V6C+HROpenStreetMap ID
way 5772329OpenStreetMap feature
place=island
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Satellite Map
Discover Sehel Island from above in high-definition satellite imagery.
In Other Languages
From Arabic to Swedish—“Sehel Island” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “جزيرة سهيل”
- Basque: “Sehel uhartea”
- Catalan: “Sehel”
- Cebuano: “Jazīrat Suhayl”
- Chinese: “赫尔岛”
- Chinese: “赫爾島”
- Croatian: “Sehel”
- Czech: “Seheil”
- Dutch: “Sehel Island”
- Egyptian Arabic: “جزيرة سهيل”
- French: “île de Sehel”
- French: “Île de Sehel”
- German: “Ǧazīrat Suhail”
- German: “Sehel”
- German: “Sehelnarti”
- German: “Suhail”
- German: “Suheil”
- Greek: “Νήσος Σεχέλ”
- Hebrew: “סהל”
- Hungarian: “Seheil-sziget”
- Indonesian: “Pulau Sehel”
- Italian: “isola di Sehel”
- Italian: “Isola di Sehel”
- Japanese: “セヘル島”
- Persian: “جزیره سهیل”
- Polish: “Dżazirat Suhajl”
- Polish: “Sehel”
- Portuguese: “Sehel”
- Slovenian: “Sehel”
- Spanish: “Sehel”
- Swedish: “Jazīrat Suhayl”
Localities in the Area
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Notable Places Nearby
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