El Quseir
El Qoseir is a city in eastern Egypt, located on the Red Sea west coast. Populated for approximately 5,000 years, its ancient Egyptian name was Tjau, while its ancient Greek name during the Ptolemaic era was Myos Hormos.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: Nikswieweg, CC BY-SA 3.0.
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- Type: City with 24,300 residents
- Description: city in Red Sea, Egypt
- Also known as: “Al-Qusayr, Egypt”, “El Qoseir”, “El-Quseir”, “Koseir”, “Leucus Limen”, “Qosier”, and “Qosseir”
El Quseir
- Categories: port city, resort town, archaeological site, kism, and locality
- Location: Red Sea, Red Sea Coast, Egypt, North Africa, Africa
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Latitude
26.1048° or 26° 6′ 17″ northLongitude
34.2798° or 34° 16′ 47″ eastPopulation
24,300Elevation
23 metres (75 feet)United Nations Location Code
EG AQUOpen location code
7GRP473H+WWOpenStreetMap ID
node 27136155OpenStreetMap feature
place=city
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Zulu—“El Quseir” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “القصير”
- Arabic: “القُصْير”
- Armenian: “Էլ-Քուսեյր”
- Asturian: “El-Quseir”
- Belarusian: “Кусейр”
- Belarusian: “Эль-Кусейр”
- Catalan: “El-Quseir”
- Cebuano: “Al Quşayr”
- Czech: “Quseir”
- Dutch: “El Quseir”
- Egyptian Arabic: “القصير”
- Egyptian Arabic: “مدينة القصير”
- French: “Al Qusair”
- French: “Al-Qusair”
- German: “Al Qusayr”
- German: “Al-Qusair”
- German: “Al-Quṣayr”
- German: “El Quseir”
- German: “El-Qusair”
- German: “El-Quseir”
- German: “Kosseir”
- German: “Qseir”
- German: “Quseir”
- German: “Quṣeir”
- German: “Tjaou”
- German: “Tjau”
- German: “Tschaou”
- Greek: “Αλ Κουσαΐρ”
- Hebrew: “קוסייר”
- Hindi: “अल क़ोसियर”
- Hungarian: “Kuszeir”
- Italian: “Al Quseir”
- Italian: “El Quseir”
- Italian: “Kosseir”
- Italian: “Quseir”
- Japanese: “アル＝クサイル”
- Japanese: “紅海”
- Kazakh: “Élʹ-Kwseýr qalası”
- Kazakh: “Эль-Кусейр қаласы”
- Kazakh: “ەل-كۋسەير قالاسى”
- Persian: “القصیر”
- Persian: “قصیر (استان بحر الاحمر)”
- Persian: “قصیر”
- Polish: “Al-Kusajr”
- Russian: “Аль-Кусайра”
- Russian: “Кусейр”
- Russian: “Эль Кусейр”
- Russian: “Эль-Кусейр”
- Scots: “Al Qusayr”
- Scots: “Al-Qusair”
- Serbo-Croatian: “El Kusejr”
- South Azerbaijani: “القصیر”
- Spanish: “El Qoseir”
- Spanish: “El Quseir”
- Spanish: “El-Qoseir”
- Spanish: “El-Quseir”
- Swedish: “El Quseir, Egypten”
- Swedish: “El Quseir”
- Ukrainian: “Кусейр”
- Ukrainian: “Эль Кусейр”
- Zulu: “El Qoseir”
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