Rafah
Rafah was a city in North Sinai and Egypt's eastern border with the Gaza Strip, Palestine. It was the capital of Rafah center in North Sinai Governorate, and is situated on the eastern Mediterranean coast of Egypt.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Locality with 44,200 residents
- Description: human settlement in Egypt
- Also known as: “Er Rafa”, “Rafaa”, “Rafaḩ”, “Rafaḩ al Mişrīyah”, “Rafah, Egypt”, “Rafīah”, “Raphia”, and “Rifah”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Rafi’ah Yam.
Rafi’ah Yam
Ruins
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Rafiah Yam was an Israeli settlement in the Gaza Strip that existed until 2005. Rafi’ah Yam is situated 4 km north of Rafah.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Canada Camp and Rafah Refugee Camp.
Canada Camp
Locality
Canada Camp was a Palestinian refugee camp in the northern Sinai near Rafah, 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.
Rafah Refugee Camp
Suburb
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Rafah Camp is one of eight Palestinian refugee camps in the Gaza Strip. It is located in the Rafah Governorate along the Gaza–Egypt border. It was established in 1949 and currently forms part of the city of Rafah.
Rafah
Town
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Rafah was a city in the southern Gaza Strip, Palestine, that served as the capital of the Rafah Governorate. It was located 30 kilometers south-west of Gaza City.
Rafah
- Category: human settlement
- Location: North Sinai Governorate, Egypt, North Africa, Africa
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Zulu—“Rafah” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “رفح”
- Belarusian: “Рафах (Эгіпет)”
- Belarusian: “Рафах”
- Central Kurdish: “ڕەفەح”
- Chinese: “拉法 (埃及)”
- Chinese: “拉法赫 (埃及)”
- Dutch: “Rafah”
- Egyptian Arabic: “رفح”
- Esperanto: “Rafah (Egiptio)”
- Esperanto: “Rafah”
- French: “Rafah”
- German: “Rafah”
- Greek: “Ράφα”
- Hebrew: “רפיח המצרית”
- Irish: “Rafah”
- Italian: “Rafah”
- Japanese: “ラファフ (エジプト)”
- Persian: “رفح”
- Polish: “Rafah”
- Portuguese: “Rafa”
- Russian: “Рафах”
- Scots: “Rafah, Egyp”
- Scots: “Rafah”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Rafah (Egipat)”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Rafah”
- Slovenian: “Rafa”
- South Azerbaijani: “رفح (میصر)”
- South Azerbaijani: “رفح”
- Spanish: “Rafaḥ”
- Thai: “เราะฟะห์ (ประเทศอียิปต์)”
- Thai: “เราะฟะห์”
- Ukrainian: “Рафах”
- Urdu: “رفح، مصر”
- Zulu: “Rafah, Gibhithe”
Places with the Same Name
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Localities in the Area
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