Sehel Island

Sehel Island is located in the Nile, about 2 miles southwest of in southern . It is a large island, and is roughly halfway between the city and the upstream .
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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.

Island
Photo: RolandUnger, CC BY-SA 3.0.
is an on the Nile, forming part of the city of in . 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".

Stadium
is a in , . It has a capacity of 11,000 spectators. It is the home of Aswan SC.

Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.
The is the largest known ancient obelisk and is located in the northern region of the stone quarries of ancient Egypt in , .

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Shellal and Aswan.

Village
is a small ancient village on the banks of the Nile, south of in . It was the traditional northern frontier of the region with both the Egyptian Empire and the Roman Empire.

Photo: MJJR, CC BY 3.0.
is the southernmost city of , some 870 km south of , just below the Dam and Lake Nasser, with a population of 275,000. is far more relaxed and smaller than and .

Locality
is a Late Paleolithic site in . Archaeologists initially believed that the site held evidence for some of the earliest examples of agriculture. is situated 9 km west of Sehel Island.

Sehel Island

Latitude
24.06146° or 24° 3′ 41″ north
Longitude
32.87202° or 32° 52′ 19″ east
Elevation
114 metres (374 feet)
Open location code
7GPJ3V6C+HR
Open­Street­Map ID
way 5772329
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­island
Geo­Names ID
347789
Wiki­data ID
Q1476222
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Satellite Map

Discover Sehel Island from above in high-definition satellite imagery.
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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Uzbek—“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”
  • Hausa: “Tsibirin Sehel”
  • 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”
  • Urdu: “جزیرہ سہیل”
  • Uzbek: “Sehel oroli”

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