Qantara Sharq
Qantara Sharq is an Egyptian center and city situated on the east bank of the Suez Canal in the Sinai Peninsula, on the northern border of Ismailia Governorate.- Type: City with 31,800 residents
- Description: human settlement in Egypt’s Governorate of Ismailia.
- Also known as: “Al Qantarah”, “Al Qanţarah”, “Al-Qanatarah East”, “El Kantara”, “El Qanṭara”, “El-Qanṭara el-Sharqîya”, “El-Qantarah al-Sharqiya”, “El-Qantarah East”, “Kantara East”, “Kantara East, Kantara East”, and “Qantara East”
- Historically known as: “Kantara”
Qantara Sharq
- Category: locality
- Location: Ismailia Governorate, Egypt, North Africa, Africa
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Latitude
30.86363° or 30° 51′ 49″ north
Longitude
32.32517° or 32° 19′ 31″ east
Population
31,800
Elevation
6 metres (20 feet)
United Nations Location Code
EG ELK
Open location code
8G2JV87G+F3
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
place=city
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Vietnamese—“Qantara Sharq” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “القنطرة شرق”
- Arabic: “القنطرة”
- Arabic: “قنطرة شرقية”
- Azerbaijani: “El-Qantara”
- Bengali: “আল কান্তারা এল সারকিয়া”
- Catalan: “Al-Qantara el-Sharqiya”
- Catalan: “Al-Qantarah al-Sharqiyya”
- Catalan: “Qantara”
- Chinese: “坎塔拉”
- Czech: “El Qantara”
- Danish: “El-Qantarah el-Sharqiyya”
- Dutch: “El-Qantarah el-Sharqiyya”
- Finnish: “El-Qantarah el-Sharqiyya”
- French: “El Qantara el-Sharqiyya”
- French: “El Qantara Est”
- French: “Est de Qantara”
- German: “El Qantara”
- German: “Ost-Qantara”
- Greek: “Ελ Καντάρα”
- Gujarati: “અલ-કાંતારાહ અલ-શરકિયા”
- Hebrew: “אל קנטרה מזרח”
- Hebrew: “קנטרה”
- Hindi: “एल-कानताराः एल-शरकीयया”
- Indonesian: “El-Qantarah el-Sharqiyya”
- Italian: “El-Qantarah el-Sharqiyya”
- Japanese: “エル・カンタラ アル・シャルキーヤ”
- Kannada: “ಎಲ್-ಖಂತರಾ ಎಲ್-ಶರ್ಕಿಯಾ”
- Korean: “엘 칸타라 엘 샤리키야”
- Latvian: “El Kantara El Šarkija”
- Lithuanian: “El Kantara el-Šarkija”
- Malay: “El-Qantarah el-Sharqiyya”
- Marathi: “एल-कंताराह-अल-शार्किया”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “El-Qantarah, el-Sharqiyya”
- Persian: “قنطره شرق”
- Polish: “Al-Kantara Szark”
- Polish: “Al-Kantara”
- Portuguese: “Al-Qantara el-Sharqiyya”
- Russian: “Эль-Кантара”
- Sinhala: “එල් කන්ටරා එල් ශකියා”
- Spanish: “Al-Qantara el-Sharqiyya”
- Swedish: “El-Qantarah el-Sharqiyya”
- Tamil: “எல் -கிஆண்டரா எல் -ஷார்க்கியா”
- Telugu: “అల్ కాంతార అల్ శర్కియ”
- Thai: “เอล คานทาราฮ์ ชาร์คิยยา”
- Turkish: “El-Qantarah el-Sharqiyya”
- Ukrainian: “Аль-Кантара ель-Шаркія”
- Ukrainian: “Аль-Кантара, Ель-Кантара”
- Ukrainian: “Аль-Кантара”
- Urdu: “قنطرہ شرق”
- Vietnamese: “El-Qantarah el-Sharqiyya”
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