Isthmus of Suez
The Isthmus of Suez is the 125-kilometre-wide land bridge that lies between the Mediterranean Sea and the Red Sea, east of the Suez Canal, the boundary between the continents of Africa and Asia.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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Isthmus of Suez
- Type: Isthmus
- Description: land bridge connecting mainland Asia with mainland Africa
- Categories: isthmus and landform
- Location: Ismailia Governorate, Egypt, North Africa, Africa
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Satellite Map
Discover Isthmus of Suez from above in high-definition satellite imagery.
In Other Languages
From Afrikaans to Western Frisian—“Isthmus of Suez” goes by many names.
- Afrikaans: “landengte van Suez”
- Afrikaans: “Landengte van Suez”
- Arabic: “برزخ السويس”
- Armenian: “Սուեզի պարանոց”
- Azerbaijani: “Süveyş bərzəği”
- Azerbaijani: “Süveyş bərzəxi”
- Basque: “Suezko istmoa”
- Belarusian: “Суэцкі перашыек”
- Bulgarian: “Суецки провлак”
- Burmese: “ဆူးအက်ကျွန်းဆက်”
- Catalan: “Istme de Suez”
- Cebuano: “Isthmus of Suez”
- Chinese: “苏伊士地峡”
- Chuvash: “Суэц пымакĕ”
- Czech: “Suezská šíje”
- Dutch: “Landengte van Suez”
- Esperanto: “Sueza Istmo”
- Esperanto: “Sueza Terkolo”
- Estonian: “Suessi maakitsus”
- French: “Isthme de Suez”
- Galician: “Estreito de Suez”
- Galician: “Istmo de Suez”
- German: “Isthmus von Sues”
- Greek: “Ισθμός του Σουέζ”
- Hebrew: “מצר סואץ”
- Icelandic: “Súeseiðið”
- Irish: “Cuing Shuais”
- Italian: “Istmo di Suez”
- Japanese: “スエズ地峡”
- Kabyle: “azrugzir n Swis”
- Korean: “수에즈 지협”
- Lithuanian: “Sueco sąsmauka”
- Malay: “Ismus Suez”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Istme de Suèz”
- Persian: “باریکه سوئز”
- Polish: “Przesmyk Sueski”
- Portuguese: “Istmo do Suez”
- Romanian: “Istmul Suez”
- Russian: “Суэцкий перешеек”
- Slovenian: “Sueška ožina”
- Slovenian: “Sueška zemeljska ožina”
- Spanish: “Istmo de Suez”
- Swedish: “Isthmus of Suez”
- Swedish: “Sueznäset”
- Tajik: “Гарданаи Суэс”
- Ukrainian: “Суецький перешийок”
- Uzbek: “Suvaysh boʻyni”
- Western Frisian: “Lâningte fan Suez”
- Western Frisian: “Lâningte fan Suëz”
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