North Africa
Egypt
Matruh Governorate

Sallum

Sallum is a harbourside or town in . It is along the Egypt/Libyan short north–south aligned coast of the Mediterranean Sea in the far northwest corner of Egypt.
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  • Type: Town with 8,450 residents
  • Description: town in Egypt
  • Also known as: “Al-Salum”, “As Sallum”, “Catabathmus Magna”, “El Sellûm”, “El Sellûm, Al Sellum, Al Sollum, Sellum, Sollum, Salum”, “El Sollum”, “Es Sallum”, “Es Sollūm”, “P. Salom”, “P. Salomon”, “P. Soliman”, “Panormus”, “Port Salloume”, “Port Salom”, “Port Salomon”, “Port Soliman”, “Porto Salom”, “Salamo”, “Salome”, “Salona”, “Salonef”, “Salum”, “Salûm”, “Sellum”, and “Solum”
  • Historically known as: “Sollum”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Halfaya Sollum War Cemetery.

Cemetery
is a burial ground for military personnel who died in Egypt and Libya during the Second World War. It is located in Egypt, near the border with Libya.

Sallum

Latitude
31.55162° or 31° 33′ 6″ north
Longitude
25.15421° or 25° 9′ 15″ east
Population
8,450
Elevation
5 metres (16 feet)
United Nations Location Code
EG SAL
Open location code
8G37H523+JM
Open­Street­Map ID
node 299612108
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­town
Geo­Names ID
359867
Wiki­data ID
Q1245502
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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Ukrainian—“Sallum” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “السلوم”
  • Asturian: “Sallum”
  • Catalan: “Sallum”
  • Cebuano: “As Sallūm”
  • Chinese: “塞卢姆”
  • Chinese: “塞盧姆”
  • Chinese: “索倫 (埃及)”
  • Czech: “As Sallum”
  • Czech: “Sallum”
  • Czech: “Sollum”
  • Danish: “Sollum”
  • Dutch: “Salloum”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “السلوم”
  • Finnish: “Sollum”
  • French: “Sollum”
  • German: “as-Sallum”
  • German: “As-Sallum”
  • German: “el-Sallum”
  • German: “Sallum”
  • German: “Sallūm”
  • German: “Sollum”
  • Greek: “Σαλούμ”
  • Hebrew: “סאלום”
  • Italian: “Sollum”
  • Japanese: “サルーム”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Sollum”
  • Norwegian: “Sollum”
  • Persian: “السلوم”
  • Polish: “As-Sallum”
  • Portuguese: “Sallum”
  • Russian: “Саллум”
  • Russian: “Эс-Саллум”
  • Slovak: “Sallum”
  • South Azerbaijani: “السلوم”
  • Spanish: “Sollum”
  • Swedish: “As Sallūm”
  • Ukrainian: “Соллум”

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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 “Sallum”. Photo: Besnier.m, CC BY 2.5.