North Africa
Egypt
Matruh Governorate

Sidi Barrani

Sidi Barrani is a town in , near the Mediterranean Sea, about 95 km east of the Egypt–Libya border, and around 240 km from , . Named after Sidi es-Saadi el Barrani, a Senussi sheikh who was a head of its Zawiya, the village is mainly a Bedouin community.
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  • Type: Village with 14,000 residents
  • Description: human settlement
  • Also known as: “El Bomba”, “Sīdī Barānī”, and “Sidi el-Barráni”

Sidi Barrani

Latitude
31.61129° or 31° 36′ 41″ north
Longitude
25.92585° or 25° 55′ 33″ east
Population
14,000
Elevation
24 metres (79 feet)
IATA airport code
SQK
United Nations Location Code
EG SBA
Open location code
8G37JW6G+G8
Open­Street­Map ID
node 769131130
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­village
Geo­Names ID
348548
Wiki­data ID
Q1018010
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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Zulu—“Sidi Barrani” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “براني”
  • Arabic: “سيدى برانى”
  • Arabic: “سيدي البراني”
  • Arabic: “سيدي براني”
  • Arabic: “مدينة براني”
  • Bosnian: “Sidi Barrani”
  • Catalan: “Sidi Barani”
  • Cebuano: “Sīdī Barrānī”
  • Chinese: “西地巴拉尼”
  • Chinese: “西迪拜拉尼”
  • Danish: “Sidi Barrani”
  • Dutch: “Sidi Barrani”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “سيدى برانى”
  • Esperanto: “Sidi Barrani”
  • Finnish: “Sidi Barrani”
  • French: “Sidi Barrani”
  • German: “Sidi Barrani”
  • Hebrew: “סידי בראני”
  • Indonesian: “Sidi Barrani”
  • Italian: “Sidi Barrani”
  • Italian: “Sidi El Barrani”
  • Japanese: “シジバラーニ”
  • Japanese: “シディ・バラーニ”
  • Japanese: “シデイ・バランデー”
  • Japanese: “シディバッラニ”
  • Kabyle: “Sidi Berrani”
  • Korean: “시디바라니”
  • Malay: “Sidi Barrani”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Sidi Barrani”
  • Norwegian: “Sidi Barrani”
  • Persian: “سیدی برانی”
  • Polish: “Sidi Barrani”
  • Russian: “Сиди-Баррани”
  • South Azerbaijani: “سیدی برانی”
  • Spanish: “Sidi Barrani”
  • Spanish: “Sidi-Barrani”
  • Swedish: “Sidi Barrani”
  • Swedish: “Sīdī Barrānī”
  • Turkish: “Sidi Barrani”
  • Ukrainian: “Сіді-Баррані”
  • Vietnamese: “Sidi Barrani”
  • Zulu: “Sidi Barrani”

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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Sidi Barrani”. Photo: Maher27777, Public domain.