El Alamein
El Alamein is a city on the north coast of Egypt, 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.
Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.- Type: City with 10,900 residents
- Description: town in the northern Matruh Governorate, Egypt
- Also known as: “‘Alamain”, “Al `Alamayn”, “Al Alamayn”, “Al alamein”, “Al-‘Alamain”, “Al-Alamayn”, “Al-Alamejn”, “Alamejn”, “Alameyn”, “Batalla de el Alamein”, “Batalla de el-Alamein”, “El ‘Alamein”, “El-‘Alamên”, “El-Alamejn”, “El-Alamén”, “Ел Аламеин”, “Ел Аламейн”, “ელ ალამეინი”, “علمين”, and “エルアラメイン”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Al-Alamein Military Museum and El-Alamein War Cemetery.
Alamein Memorial
Memorial
El Alamein
- Category: locality
- Location: Matruh Governorate, Lower Egypt, Egypt, North Africa, Africa
- View on OpenStreetMap
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
OpenStreetMap feature
place=city
GeoNames ID
Wikidata ID
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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”
- Asturian: “El Alamein”
- Azerbaijani: “əl-Ələmeyn”
- Azerbaijani: “Əl-Ələmeyn”
- Basque: “El-Alamein”
- Bengali: “এল আলামেইন”
- Breton: “El Alamein”
- Bulgarian: “Аламейн”
- Catalan: “El Alamein”
- Cebuano: “Al ‘Alamayn”
- Chinese: “阿拉曼”
- Chinese: “阿莱曼”
- Chinese: “阿萊曼”
- Croatian: “El Alamein”
- Czech: “El Alamein”
- Danish: “El-Alamein”
- Dutch: “El Alamein”
- Egyptian Arabic: “العلمين”
- Esperanto: “El Alamein”
- Estonian: “Al-‘Alamayn”
- Finnish: “El Alamein”
- French: “El Alamein”
- French: “El-Alamein”
- Georgian: “ელ-ალამაინი”
- German: “El-Alamein”
- German: “ʿAlamein”
- Greek: “Ελ Αλαμέιν”
- Gujarati: “અલ અલમેઈન”
- Hebrew: “אל-עלמיין”
- Hindi: “एल आलामीन”
- Hungarian: “El Alamein”
- Indonesian: “Al Alamain”
- Indonesian: “Alamain”
- Irish: “El Alamein”
- Italian: “El Alamein”
- 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”
- Portuguese: “El Alamein”
- Romanian: “El Alamein”
- Russian: “Аламейн”
- Russian: “Эль-Аламейн”
- Sardinian: “El Alamein”
- Serbian: “El Alamejn”
- Serbian: “Ел Аламејн”
- Serbo-Croatian: “El Alamein”
- Sinhala: “එල් අලමින්”
- Slovak: “Al-Alamajn”
- Slovenian: “El Alamein”
- South Azerbaijani: “العلمین”
- Spanish: “El Alamein”
- Swedish: “El Alamein”
- Swedish: “El-Alamein”
- Tajik: “Ал-Аламайн”
- Tamil: “எல் ஆலமீன்”
- Telugu: “ఎల్ అలమేయిన్”
- Thai: “อัลอะละมัยน์”
- Turkish: “El Alameyn”
- Turkish: “El-Alameyn”
- Ukrainian: “Ель-Аламейн”
- Urdu: “العالمین”
- Uzbek: “Al-Olamayn”
- Vietnamese: “El Alamein”
- Western Panjabi: “العالمین (مصر)”
- Western Panjabi: “العالمین”
- Zulu: “El Alamein”
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