Egypt
Red Sea Coast
Red Sea

Marsa Alam

Marsa Alam is a tourist town in south-eastern , located on the western shore of the Red Sea. It is described as a "popular" tourist destination. Marsa Alam is a relatively recently built town; its development began in 1995 through the investments of the Kuwaiti Al-Kharafi Group, which established the town and its initial facilities, resorts and infrastructure.
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  • Type: City with 1,920 residents
  • Description: place in Red Sea Governorate, Egypt
  • Also known as: “Marsá al `Alam” and “Marsa Allam”
Photo: RolandUnger, CC BY-SA 4.0.

Marsa Alam

Latitude
25.07° or 25° 4′ 12″ north
Longitude
34.8938° or 34° 53′ 38″ east
Population
1,920
Elevation
18 metres (59 feet)
IATA airport code
RMF
Open location code
7GQP3V9V+XG
Open­Street­Map ID
node 27135821
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
352736
Wiki­data ID
Q1001901
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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Zulu—“Marsa Alam” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “مرسى علم”
  • Arabic: “مرسي علم”
  • Armenian: “Մարսա Ալամ”
  • Bengali: “মারশা আলম”
  • Bulgarian: “Marsa Alam”
  • Bulgarian: “Марса Алам”
  • Cebuano: “Marsa Alam”
  • Chinese: “馬薩阿拉姆”
  • Chinese: “马萨阿拉姆”
  • Czech: “Marsá Alam”
  • Danish: “Marsa Alam”
  • Dutch: “Marsa Alam”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “مرسى علم”
  • Finnish: “Marsa Alam”
  • French: “Marsa Alam”
  • French: “Marsa-Alam”
  • German: “Marsa Alam”
  • German: “Marsā ʿAlam”
  • Greek: “Μάρσα Αλάμ”
  • Gujarati: “મારસા આલમ”
  • Hebrew: “מרסא עלם”
  • Hindi: “मरसा आलम”
  • Hindi: “मार्स आलम”
  • Hungarian: “Marsza Alam”
  • Indonesian: “Marsa Alam”
  • Italian: “Marsá al ‘Alam”
  • Italian: “Marsa Alam”
  • Japanese: “マルサ・アラム”
  • Japanese: “マルサ·アラム”
  • Kannada: “ಮಾರ್ಸ ಆಲಂ”
  • Korean: “마사 알람”
  • Latvian: “Marsaalama”
  • Lithuanian: “Marsa Alamas”
  • Malay: “Marsa Alam”
  • Marathi: “मारसा आलम”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Marsa Alam”
  • Persian: “مرسی علم”
  • Polish: “Marsa Alam”
  • Portuguese: “Marsa Alam”
  • Pushto: “مرسی علم”
  • Romanian: “Marsa Alam”
  • Russian: “Марса Алам”
  • Russian: “Марса-Алам”
  • Russian: “Марса-эль-Алам”
  • Russian: “Мерса-Алам”
  • Scots: “Marsa Alam”
  • Sinhala: “මර්සා ඇලම්”
  • South Azerbaijani: “مرسی علم”
  • Spanish: “Marsa Alam”
  • Swedish: “Marsa Alam”
  • Tamil: “மார்சா அலார்ம்”
  • Telugu: “మార్సా అలమ్”
  • Thai: “มาร์ซ่า อลาม”
  • Turkish: “Marsa Alam”
  • Turkish: “Marsa Alem”
  • Ukrainian: “Марса-Алам”
  • Urdu: “مرسا مائیکرو”
  • Urdu: “مرسی علم”
  • Vietnamese: “Marsa Alam”
  • Zulu: “Marsa Alam”

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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Marsa Alam”. Photo: AhmedMosaad, CC BY-SA 4.0.