As Salam
As Salam is a suburb in Rafah Governorate, Gaza Strip. As Salam is situated nearby to the suburb Brazil Refugee Camp, as well as near the town Rafah.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Places of Interest
Highlights include Rafah Border Crossing and Yasser Arafat International Airport Ruins.
Rafah Border Crossing
Border checkpoint
Photo: Gigi Ibrahim, Public domain.
The Rafah Border Crossing or Rafah Crossing Point is the sole crossing point between Egypt and Palestine's Gaza Strip and Gaza's sole border point with a country other than Israel.
Yasser Arafat International Airport Ruins
Ruins
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Yasser Arafat International Airport was an airport in the Gaza Strip. It was located between Rafah and Dahaniya, close to the Egyptian border. The facility was built as a result of the Oslo Accords and opened on 24 November 1998 as Gaza International Airport. Yasser Arafat International Airport Ruins is situated 3 km southeast of As Salam.
Rafah
Ruins
Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Rafah was a city in North Sinai and Egypt's eastern border with the Gaza Strip, Palestine. It is the capital of Rafah center in North Sinai Governorate, and is situated on the eastern Mediterranean coast of Egypt. Rafah is situated 3 km northwest of As Salam.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Rafah and Rafah Refugee Camp.
Rafah
Town
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Rafah is a city in the southern Gaza Strip, Palestine, and the capital of the Rafah Governorate. It is located 30 kilometers south-west of Gaza City. In 2017, Rafah had a population of 171,889.
Rafah Refugee Camp
Suburb
Photo: DYKT Mohigan, CC BY 2.0.
Rafah Camp is one of eight Palestinian refugee camps in the Gaza Strip. It is located in the Rafah Governorate along the Gaza–Egypt border. It was established in 1949 and currently forms part of the city of Rafah.
Shokat as-Sufi
Village
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Shokat as-Sufi is a Palestinian town under Israeli occupation in the southern Gaza Strip, south of Rafah and adjacent to the inoperable Yasser Arafat International Airport.
As Salam
- Type: Suburb
- Also known as: “As Salām”
- Category: locality
- Location: Rafah Governorate, Gaza Strip, Palestine, Middle East, Asia
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Latitude
31.26769° or 31° 16′ 4″ northLongitude
34.25997° or 34° 15′ 36″ eastElevation
66 metres (217 feet)Open location code
8G3P7795+3XOpenStreetMap ID
node 331148641OpenStreetMap feature
place=suburbGeoNames ID
8051676
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to French—“As Salam” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “السالم”
- Arabic: “السلام”
- French: “As Salam”
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