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.
- Type: City with 24,300 residents
- Description: city in Red Sea, Egypt
- Also known as: “Al-Quṣayr”, “Al-Qusayr, Egypt”, “El Qoseir”, “El-Qusair”, “El-Quseir”, “Koseir”, “Kosseir”, “Leucus Limen”, “Qosier”, “Qosseir”, “Qseir”, “Tjaou”, “Tjau”, “Tschaou”, “القُصْير”, “قصیر (استان بحر الاحمر)”, and “アル＝クサイル”
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″ north
Longitude
34.2798° or 34° 16′ 47″ east
Population
24,300
Elevation
23 metres (75 feet)
UN/LOCODE
EG AQU
Open location code
7GRP473H+WW
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
place=city
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Zulu—“El Quseir” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “القصير”
- Armenian: “Էլ-Քուսեյր”
- Asturian: “El-Quseir”
- 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-Qusair”
- German: “Quṣeir”
- Greek: “Αλ Κουσαΐρ”
- Hebrew: “קוסייר”
- Hindi: “अल क़ोसियर”
- Hungarian: “Kuszeir”
- Italian: “Al Quseir”
- Italian: “El Quseir”
- Italian: “Quseir”
- Japanese: “紅海”
- Kazakh: “Élʹ-Kwseýr qalası”
- Kazakh: “Эль-Кусейр қаласы”
- Kazakh: “ەل-كۋسەير قالاسى”
- Persian: “القصیر”
- Persian: “قصیر”
- Polish: “Al-Kusajr”
- Russian: “Аль-Кусайра”
- Russian: “Эль Кусейр”
- Russian: “Эль-Кусейр”
- Scots: “Al Qusayr”
- Serbo-Croatian: “El Kusejr”
- South Azerbaijani: “القصیر”
- Spanish: “El Qoseir”
- Spanish: “El-Qoseir”
- Swedish: “El Quseir, Egypten”
- Swedish: “El Quseir”
- Ukrainian: “Ель-Кусейр”
- Ukrainian: “Кусейр”
- Urdu: “قصیر (مصر)”
- Urdu: “قصیر”
- Zulu: “El Qoseir”
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