Mount Catherine
Mount Saint Catherine, is the highest mountain in Egypt. It is located near the town of Saint Catherine in the South Sinai Governorate. The name is derived from the Christian tradition that angels transported to this mountain the body of the martyred Saint Catherine of Alexandria.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Peak with an elevation of 2,637 metres
- Description: Highest mountain in Egypt
- Also known as: “Gebel Katharina”, “Gebel Katherīna”, “Jabal Kātrīnā”, “Jabal Kātrīnā, Jabal Katrina, Mount Catherine, Jebel Katherina, Gebel Katharina”, “Jabal Katrīnah”, “Jebel Katherina”, “Katherine Gabel”, “Mount Catherina”, and “Mountain of Saint Catherine”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Mount Sinai.
Mount Sinai
Mount Sinai is in the middle of the Sinai Peninsula, Egypt and rises 2,285 metres above sea level. The mountain is a sacred site for Jews, Christians and Muslims.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include St Catherine’s Monastery.
St Catherine’s Monastery
Locality
Photo: Berthold Werner, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Saint Catherine's Monastery, officially the Sacred Autonomous Royal Monastery of Saint Catherine of the Holy and God-Trodden Mount Sinai, is a Christian monastery located in the Sinai Peninsula of Egypt.
Mount Catherine
- Categories: mountain and landform
- Location: South Sinai, Egypt, North Africa, Africa
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Latitude
28.50943° or 28° 30′ 34″ northLongitude
33.95536° or 33° 57′ 19″ eastElevation
2,637 metres (8,652 feet)Open location code
7GWMGX54+Q4OpenStreetMap ID
node 768762814OpenStreetMap feature
natural=peak
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Welsh—“Mount Catherine” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “جبل القديسة كاترينا”
- Arabic: “جبل سانت كاترين”
- Arabic: “جبل كاترين”
- Arabic: “جبل كاترينا”
- Arabic: “جبل كاثرين”
- Arabic: “كاترينة”
- Asturian: “Gabal Katrîne”
- Asturian: “monte Catalina”
- Basque: “Jebel Khaterin”
- Basque: “Santa Katalina mendia”
- Basque: “Yebel Khaterin”
- Catalan: “Djebel Katarina”
- Catalan: “Muntanya Caterina”
- Cebuano: “Mount Catherine (bukid sa Ehipto)”
- Cebuano: “Mount Catherine”
- Chinese: “凯瑟琳山”
- Chinese: “凱瑟琳山”
- Czech: “džabal Katrina”
- Czech: “hora sv. Kateřiny”
- Czech: “hora svaté Kateřiny”
- Czech: “Hora svaté Kateřiny”
- Czech: “nejvyšší hora Egypta”
- Dutch: “Catharinaberg”
- Dutch: “Katharinaberg”
- Egyptian Arabic: “جبل سانت كاترين”
- Esperanto: “Ĝabal Katrina”
- Esperanto: “Monto Katerino”
- French: “mont Sainte-Catherine”
- French: “Mont Sainte-Catherine”
- Galician: “Jabal Katrina”
- German: “Dschabal Katrin”
- German: “Dschabal Katrina”
- German: “Jabal Katrin”
- German: “Katharinenberg”
- Greek: “Όρος της Αγίας Αικατερίνης”
- Hebrew: “ג’בל קתרינה”
- Hindi: “कैथरीन पर्वत”
- Indonesian: “Gunung Katarina”
- Italian: “Monte Caterina”
- Japanese: “カテリーナ山”
- Kazakh: “Жебел Катрин”
- Ladin: “Mount Catherine”
- Lithuanian: “Katerino kalnas”
- Lithuanian: “Kotrynos kalnas”
- Macedonian: “Катерина”
- Macedonian: “Катрин”
- Malayalam: “കാതറൈൻ പർവ്വതം”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Catherine-fjellet”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Gebel Katherina”
- Norwegian: “Gebel Katherina”
- Persian: “کوه کاترین”
- Polish: “Dżabal Katrina”
- Polish: “Góra Katarzyny”
- Polish: “Góra Świętej Katarzyny”
- Portuguese: “Monte Santa Catarina”
- Russian: “Гебель-Катрин”
- Russian: “Гора Святой Екатерины”
- Russian: “Катерин”
- Scots: “Moont Catherine”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Gabal Katrine”
- Slovak: “hora svätej Kataríny”
- Slovenian: “gora Katarina”
- Spanish: “Monte Catalina”
- Swedish: “Gebel Katherîna”
- Swedish: “Katarinaberget, Egypten”
- Swedish: “Katarinaberget”
- Swedish: “Mount Catherine”
- Tatar: “Изге Катерина тавы”
- Ukrainian: “Гора Святої Катерини”
- Urdu: “پہاڑ کاثرین”
- Urdu: “جبل کاثرین”
- Venetian: “Monte Caterina”
- Welsh: “Jabal Katrina”
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