Sallum
Sallum is a harbourside village or town in Egypt. It is along the Egypt/Libyan short north–south aligned coast of the Mediterranean Sea in the far northwest corner of Egypt.- 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”, “el-Sallum”, “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”, “Solum”, and “索倫 (埃及)”
- Historically known as: “Sollum”
Places of Interest
Highlights: Halfaya Sollum War Cemetery.
Sallum
- Categories: border city and locality
- Location: Matruh Governorate, Egypt, North Africa, Africa
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Latitude
31.55162° or 31° 33′ 6″ north
Longitude
25.15421° or 25° 9′ 15″ east
Population
8,450
Elevation
5 metres (16 feet)
UN/LOCODE
EG SAL
Open location code
8G37H523+JM
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
place=town
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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”
- Czech: “Sallum”
- Danish: “Sollum”
- Dutch: “Salloum”
- Egyptian Arabic: “السلوم”
- Finnish: “Sollum”
- French: “Sollum”
- German: “as-Sallum”
- German: “As-Sallum”
- German: “Sallum”
- German: “Sallūm”
- 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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Localities in the Area
Places to explore: City Council Housing and Naqb Halfaya.
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Highlights: محطة سيارات 12 الراكب and شركة أتوبيس غرب ووسط الدلتا للنقل والسياحة.
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