El Tor
El Tor, also romanized as Al-Tur and At-Tur and known as Tur Sinai, formerly Raithu, is a city and the capital of the South Sinai Governorate of Egypt.
- Type: City with 16,100 residents
- Description: town in Egypt
- Also known as: “Al Tor”, “Al Tur”, “At Tur”, “At-Tūr”, “aṭ-Tūr”, “Aṭ-Ṭūr”, “El Tor, Egypt”, “El Tur”, “El-Tor”, “El-Tur”, “El-Tûr”, “Et Tor”, “Et-Tor”, “Et-Tur”, “Thur”, “Tor Sinai City”, “Tur Sinà”, “Tur Sinai”, “Tur Sinaï”, “Αλ-Τουρ”, “Ατ-Τουρ”, “Τουρ Σινάι”, “Ат-Тур”, “Раифа”, “طور سيناء”, and “طورسینا”
- Historically known as: “Raithu”
El Tor
- Categories: port city, kism, and locality
- Location: South Sinai, Egypt, North Africa, Africa
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
28.24167° or 28° 14′ 30″ north
Longitude
33.62361° or 33° 37′ 25″ east
Population
16,100
Elevation
14 metres (46 feet)
IATA airport code
ELT
UN/LOCODE
EG TOR
Open location code
7GWM6JRF+MC
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
place=city
GeoNames ID
Wikidata ID
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Zulu—“El Tor” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “Aţ Ţūr”
- Arabic: “الطور”
- Armenian: “Ալ-Տուր”
- Armenian: “Էլ Թոր (Եգիպտոս)”
- Asturian: “El-Tor”
- Belarusian: “Аль-Тур”
- Catalan: “El Tor”
- Cebuano: “El-Tor”
- Chinese: “图尔”
- Chinese: “艾勒图”
- Chinese: “艾勒圖”
- Czech: “El-Tor”
- Danish: “El Tor (Egypten)”
- Danish: “El Tor”
- Dutch: “El-Tor”
- Egyptian Arabic: “الطور”
- Esperanto: “Toro”
- Estonian: “Aţ-Ţūr”
- Finnish: “Al-Tur”
- French: “At Tour”
- French: “El-Tor”
- Georgian: “ელ-ტური”
- German: “At Tur”
- German: “At-Tur”
- German: “El-Tor”
- German: “Ṭōr”
- Greek: “Ελ-Τορ”
- Hausa: “El-Tor”
- Hebrew: “א-טור”
- Hindi: “अल-तूर”
- Hungarian: “El-Tór”
- Indonesian: “El Tor, Mesir”
- Italian: “El-Tor”
- Japanese: “エルトール”
- Kazakh: “Ét-Twr qalası”
- Kazakh: “Эт-Тур қаласы”
- Kazakh: “Эт-Тур”
- Kazakh: “ەت-تۋر قالاسى”
- Korean: “엘토르”
- Macedonian: “ел-Тур”
- Malay: “El Tor, Mesir”
- Malay: “El Tor”
- Persian: “الطور”
- Polish: “At-Tur”
- Portuguese: “El-Tor”
- Portuguese: “Tor”
- Pushto: “الطور (مصر)”
- Pushto: “الطور”
- Russian: “Эль Тур”
- Russian: “Эт-Тур”
- Scots: “El-Tor”
- Serbian: “Ет Тур”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Et Tur”
- Slovenian: “Tor”
- South Azerbaijani: “الطور (میصر)”
- South Azerbaijani: “الطور”
- Spanish: “At Tur”
- Spanish: “El Tor”
- Swedish: “At-Tur”
- Thai: “อัฏฏูร”
- Turkish: “Tur, Mısır”
- Turkish: “Tur”
- Ukrainian: “Ет-Тур”
- Urdu: “الطور (شہر)”
- Urdu: “الطور”
- Waray (Philippines): “El-Tor”
- Zulu: “El Tor, Gibhithe”
Localities in the Area
Places to explore: 60 Units Housing and Al Zohor Housing.
Notable Places Nearby
Highlights: Al Tor and Tourist Passport Departament.
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