Halaib
Halaib is a Red Sea port and town located in the Halaib Triangle, a disputed area between Egypt and Sudan. It is about 20 km southeast of the ruins of the medieval port ʽAydhab.- Type: Village with 27,000 residents
- Description: town in Red Sea Governorate, Egypt
- Also known as: “Hala’ib”, “Ḩalā’ib”, “Ḥalayb”, “Halayeb”, “Ḥalayib”, “Haleib”, “Halla ’Ib”, and “Mersa”
Halaib
- Categories: city and locality
- Location: Red Sea, Egypt, North Africa, Africa
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
22.22375° or 22° 13′ 26″ north
Longitude
36.64758° or 36° 38′ 51″ east
Population
27,000
Elevation
4 metres (13 feet)
United Nations Location Code
EG HAL
Open location code
7GJR6JFX+G2
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
place=village
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Uzbek—“Halaib” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “حلائب”
- Arabic: “حلايب”
- Bulgarian: “Халаиб”
- Catalan: “Halaib”
- Chinese: “哈拉伊卜”
- Czech: “Halaib”
- Dutch: “Hala’ib”
- Egyptian Arabic: “حلايب”
- French: “Hala’ib”
- Georgian: “ჰალაიბი”
- German: “Hala’ib”
- German: “Halaib”
- German: “Halayeb”
- German: “Halayib”
- German: “Ḥalāʾib”
- Greek: “Χαλάιμπ”
- Hebrew: “חלאיב”
- Hungarian: “Hala’ib”
- Irish: “Halayeb”
- Japanese: “ハラーイブ”
- Japanese: “ハライブ”
- Korean: “할라이브”
- Korean: “할라입”
- Persian: “حلایب”
- Polish: “Hala’ib”
- Polish: “Halaib”
- Portuguese: “Hala’ib”
- Romanian: “Hala’ib”
- Russian: “Халаиб”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Halajb”
- Somali: “Hala’ib”
- Swahili: “Hala’ib”
- Ukrainian: “Халаїб”
- Urdu: “حلایب”
- Uzbek: “Halayib”
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