El Alamein

El Alamein is a city on the north coast of , famous as the site of major battles between British and German forces during the Second World War. This article also includes the adjacent areas of New Alamein, Marina el Alamein and Leukaspis.
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  • Type: City with 10,900 residents
  • Description: town in the northern Matruh Governorate, Egypt
  • Also known as: “Al `Alamayn”, “Alamein”, “El ‘Alamein”, and “El-‘Alamên”

Places of Interest

Highlights include El-Alamein World War II Military Museum and El-Alamein War Cemetery.

Museum
Photo: RolandUnger, CC BY-SA 3.0.

Cemetery
Photo: Ian Rose, CC BY 2.5.

Memorial
Photo: RolandUnger, CC BY-SA 3.0.
The is a Commonwealth War Graves Commission war memorial in the El Alamein War Cemetery, El Alamein, . The memorial commemorates 11,866 Commonwealth forces members who died during World War II.

El Alamein

Latitude
30.8339° or 30° 50′ 2″ north
Longitude
28.9493° or 28° 56′ 57″ east
Population
10,900
Elevation
7 metres (23 feet)
Open location code
8G2CRWMX+HP
Open­Street­Map ID
node 768026937
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
361612
Wiki­data ID
Q204439
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Satellite Map

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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Zulu—“El Alamein” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “Alamein”
  • Albanian: “El Alamejn”
  • Arabic: “العلمين”
  • Arabic: “علمين”
  • Asturian: “El Alamein”
  • Azerbaijani: “əl-Ələmeyn”
  • Azerbaijani: “Əl-Ələmeyn”
  • Basque: “El-Alamein”
  • Bengali: “এল আলামেইন”
  • Breton: “El Alamein”
  • Bulgarian: “Аламейн”
  • Bulgarian: “Ел Аламейн”
  • Catalan: “Alamein”
  • Catalan: “El Alamein”
  • Cebuano: “Al ‘Alamayn”
  • Chinese: “阿拉曼”
  • Chinese: “阿莱曼”
  • Chinese: “阿萊曼”
  • Croatian: “El Alamein”
  • Czech: “El Alamein”
  • Czech: “El Alamejn”
  • Danish: “El Alamein”
  • Danish: “El-Alamein”
  • Dutch: “Al alamein”
  • Dutch: “El Alamein”
  • Dutch: “El-Alamein”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “العلمين”
  • Esperanto: “El Alamein”
  • Estonian: “Al-‘Alamayn”
  • Estonian: “Al-Alamayn”
  • Estonian: “Alamein”
  • Estonian: “El Alamein”
  • Estonian: “El-Alamein”
  • Finnish: “Al Alamayn”
  • Finnish: “El Alamein”
  • French: “El Alamein”
  • French: “El-Alamein”
  • Georgian: “ელ ალამეინი”
  • Georgian: “ელ-ალამაინი”
  • German: “Alamein”
  • German: “El Alamein”
  • German: “El-Alamein”
  • German: “ʿAlamein”
  • Greek: “El Alamein”
  • Greek: “Ελ Αλαμέιν”
  • Gujarati: “અલ અલમેઈન”
  • Hebrew: “אל-עלמיין”
  • Hindi: “एल आलामीन”
  • Hungarian: “El Alamein”
  • Indonesian: “‘Alamain”
  • Indonesian: “Al Alamain”
  • Indonesian: “Al-‘Alamain”
  • Indonesian: “Alamain”
  • Indonesian: “El Alamein”
  • Irish: “El Alamein”
  • Italian: “El Alamein”
  • Italian: “El-Alamein”
  • Japanese: “エル・アラメイン”
  • Japanese: “エルアラメイン”
  • Javanese: “El Alamein”
  • Kannada: “ಎಲ್ ಆಲಮೇನ್”
  • Korean: “엘 알라메인”
  • Latvian: “El Alameina”
  • Lithuanian: “Alameinas”
  • Lithuanian: “El Alameinas”
  • Malay: “El Alamein”
  • Maori: “Arameina”
  • Marathi: “एल अलॅमीन”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “El Alamein”
  • Norwegian: “El Alamein”
  • Persian: “العالمین”
  • Persian: “العلمین”
  • Polish: “Al-Alamajn”
  • Polish: “El Alamein”
  • Polish: “El Alamejn”
  • Polish: “El-Alamejn”
  • Portuguese: “El Alamein”
  • Romanian: “El Alamein”
  • Russian: “Аламейн”
  • Russian: “Эль-Аламейн”
  • Sardinian: “El Alamein”
  • Serbian: “El Alamejn”
  • Serbian: “Ел Аламеин”
  • Serbian: “Ел Аламејн”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “El Alamein”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “El Alamejn”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “El-Alamein”
  • Sinhala: “එල් අලමින්”
  • Slovak: “Al-Alamajn”
  • Slovak: “Al-Alamejn”
  • Slovak: “Alamein”
  • Slovak: “Alamejn”
  • Slovak: “El-Alamein”
  • Slovak: “El-Alamejn”
  • Slovak: “El-Alamén”
  • Slovenian: “El Alamein”
  • South Azerbaijani: “العلمین”
  • Spanish: “Al Alamayn”
  • Spanish: “Batalla de el Alamein”
  • Spanish: “Batalla de el-Alamein”
  • Spanish: “El Alamein”
  • Spanish: “El-Alamein”
  • Swedish: “El Alamein”
  • Swedish: “El-Alamein”
  • Tajik: “Ал-Аламайн”
  • Tamil: “எல் ஆலமீன்”
  • Telugu: “ఎల్ అలమేయిన్”
  • Thai: “อัลอะละมัยน์”
  • Turkish: “Alameyn”
  • Turkish: “El Alamein”
  • Turkish: “El Alameyn”
  • Turkish: “El-Alameyn”
  • Ukrainian: “Ель-Аламейн”
  • Urdu: “العالمین”
  • Vietnamese: “El Alamein”
  • Western Panjabi: “العالمین (مصر)”
  • Western Panjabi: “العالمین”
  • Zulu: “El Alamein”

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