St. Catherine
Saint Catherine is a town located in the South Sinai Governorate of Egypt, situated at the foot of Mount Sinai. The city is the site of Saint Catherine's Monastery.
- Type: City with 4,600 residents
- Description: town
- Also known as: “Katrina”, “Saint Catherine”, “Saint Catherine, Egypt”, “كاترينا”, and “كاترينة”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Mount Sinai.
Mount Sinai
Mount Sinai is in the middle of the Sinai Peninsula, Egypt and rises 2,285 metres above sea level. The mountain is a sacred site for Jews, Christians and Muslims.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include St Catherine’s Monastery.
St Catherine’s Monastery
Locality
St. Catherine
- Categories: town, kism, and locality
- Location: South Sinai, Egypt, North Africa, Africa
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
28.56751° or 28° 34′ 3″ north
Longitude
33.95356° or 33° 57′ 13″ east
Population
4,600
Elevation
1,586 metres (5,203 feet)
IATA airport code
SKV
Open location code
7GWMHX93+2C
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
place=city
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Zulu—“St. Catherine” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “القديسة كاترين”
- Arabic: “سانت كاترين”
- Arabic: “مدينة سانت كاترين”
- Asturian: “Saint Catherine”
- Breton: “Santez-Katell”
- Cebuano: “Saint Catherine”
- Czech: “Svatá Kateřina”
- Dutch: “Sint-Catharina”
- Egyptian Arabic: “مدينة سانت كاترين”
- French: “Sainte Catherine”
- French: “Sainte-Catherine”
- Georgian: “წმინდა ეკატერინე”
- German: “St. Katharina”
- Greek: “Αγία Αικατερίνη”
- Hebrew: “סנטה קתרינה”
- Hindi: “सेंट कैथरीन”
- Hungarian: “Szent Katalin”
- Indonesian: “Santa Katarina, Mesir”
- Italian: “Santa Caterina”
- Japanese: “セント・カトリーナ”
- Japanese: “セント・キャサリン”
- Japanese: “セントカタリナ（エジプト）”
- Korean: “생트카트린”
- Korean: “세인트 캐서린”
- Persian: “سانت کاترین”
- Polish: “Święta Katarzyna”
- Russian: “Сант-Катрин”
- Russian: “Санта-Катарин (Египет)”
- Serbian: “Света Катарина”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Sveta Katarina (grad)”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Sveta Katarina”
- Slovenian: “Sveta Katarina”
- South Azerbaijani: “سانت کاترین (میصر)”
- South Azerbaijani: “سانت کاترین”
- Spanish: “Santa Catalina”
- Swedish: “Saint Catherine”
- Ukrainian: “Сент-Катрін”
- Urdu: “سینٹ کیتھرائن مصر”
- Urdu: “سینٹ کیتھرین، ایگیپٹ”
- Western Panjabi: “سینٹ کیتھرین، مصر”
- Zulu: “Saint Catherine, Gibhithe”
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