Qantara Sharq

Qantara Sharq is an center and city situated on the east bank of the in the , on the northern border of .
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  • 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”, “Al-Qantara el-Sharqiya”, “El Kantara”, “El Qanṭara”, “El Qantara Est”, “El-Qanṭara el-Sharqîya”, “El-Qantarah al-Sharqiya”, “El-Qantarah East”, “Kantara East”, “Kantara East, Kantara East”, “Qantara”, “Qantara East”, “Аль-Кантара, Ель-Кантара”, and “قنطرة شرقية”
  • Historically known as: “Kantara”

Qantara Sharq

Latitude
30.86363° or 30° 51′ 49″ north
Longitude
32.32517° or 32° 19′ 31″ east
Population
31,800
Elevation
6 metres (20 feet)
UN/LOCODE
EG ELK
Open location code
8G2JV87G+F3
Open­Street­Map ID
node 768596321
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
360610
Wiki­data ID
Q1324574
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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Vietnamese—“Qantara Sharq” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “القنطرة شرق”
  • Arabic: “القنطرة”
  • Azerbaijani: “El-Qantara”
  • Bengali: “আল কান্তারা এল সারকিয়া”
  • Catalan: “Al-Qantarah al-Sharqiyya”
  • 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: “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”
  • Urdu: “قنطرہ شرق”
  • Vietnamese: “El-Qantarah el-Sharqiyya”

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