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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  • City with about 12,600 residents
  • …lies at an elevation of around 10 metres (20 feet)
  • Description: town in the northern Matruh Governorate, Egypt
  • Also known as
    “Al `Alamayn”
    “Alamein”
    “El-‘Alamên”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Al-Alamein Military Museum and El-Alamein War Cemetery.
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Museum
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Cemetery
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Memorial
The is a Commonwealth War Graves…

El Alamein

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Latitude
30.8339° or 30° 50′ 2″ north
Longitude
28.9493° or 28° 56′ 57″ east
Open location code
8G2CRWMX+HP
Open­Street­Map ID
node 768026937
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
361612
Wiki­data ID
Q204439

Satellite Map

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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Zulu—“El Alamein” goes by many names.
AlameinAfrikaans
El AlamejnAlbanian
العلمينArabic
علمينArabic
El AlameinAsturian
əl-ƏləmeynAzerbaijani
Əl-ƏləmeynAzerbaijani
El-AlameinBasque
এল আলামেইনBengali
El AlameinBreton
АламейнBulgarian
Ел АламейнBulgarian
AlameinCatalan
El AlameinCatalan
Al ‘AlamaynCebuano
阿拉曼Chinese
阿莱曼Chinese
阿萊曼Chinese
El AlameinCroatian
El AlameinCzech
El AlamejnCzech
El AlameinDanish
Al alameinDutch
El AlameinDutch
العلمينEgyptian Arabic
El AlameinEsperanto
Al-‘AlamaynEstonian
AlameinEstonian
El AlameinEstonian
Al AlamaynFinnish
El AlameinFinnish
El AlameinFrench
ელ ალამეინიGeorgian
ელ-ალამაინიGeorgian
AlameinGerman
El AlameinGerman
El AlameinGreek
Ελ ΑλαμέινGreek
અલ અલમેઈનGujarati
אל-עלמייןHebrew
एल आलामीनHindi
El AlameinHungarian
Al-‘AlamainIndonesian
AlamainIndonesian
El AlameinIndonesian
El AlameinIrish
El AlameinItalian
エル・アラメインJapanese
El AlameinJavanese
ಎಲ್ ಆಲಮೇನ್Kannada
엘 알라메인Korean
El AlameinaLatvian
AlameinasLithuanian
El AlameinasLithuanian
El AlameinMalay
ArameinaMaori
एल अलॅमीनMarathi
El AlameinNorwegian
El AlameinNorwegian Bokmål
العالمینPersian
العلمینPersian
Al-AlamajnPolish
El AlameinPolish
El AlamejnPolish
El AlameinPortuguese
El AlameinRomanian
АламейнRussian
Эль-АламейнRussian
El AlameinSardinian
El AlamejnSerbian
Ел АламеинSerbian
Ел АламејнSerbian
El AlameinSerbo-Croatian
El AlamejnSerbo-Croatian
එල් අලමින්Sinhala
Al-AlamajnSlovak
Al-AlamejnSlovak
AlameinSlovak
AlamejnSlovak
El-AlameinSlovak
El-AlamejnSlovak
El-AlaménSlovak
El AlameinSlovenian
العلمینSouth Azerbaijani
Al AlamaynSpanish
Batalla de el-AlameinSpanish
El AlameinSpanish
El AlameinSwedish
Ал-АламайнTajik
எல் ஆலமீன்Tamil
ఎల్ అలమేయిన్Telugu
อัลอะละมัยน์Thai
AlameynTurkish
El AlameinTurkish
El-AlameynTurkish
Ель-АламейнUkrainian
العالمینUrdu
Al-OlamaynUzbek
El AlameinVietnamese
العالمینWestern Panjabi
العالمین (مصر)Western Panjabi
El AlameinZulu

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