North Africa
Egypt
North Sinai Governorate

Rafah

Rafah was a city in North Sinai and Egypt's eastern border with the , . It is the capital of Rafah center in , and is situated on the eastern Mediterranean coast of Egypt.
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  • Type: Ruins
  • Description: human settlement in Egypt
  • Also known as: “Rafah, Egypt”

Places of Interest Nearby

Highlights include Rafi’ah Yam and Slav.

Ruins
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Rafiah Yam was an Israeli settlement in the that existed until 2005. is situated 3½ km north of Rafah.

Ruins
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was an Israeli settlement in the Gush Katif settlement bloc, located in the south-west edge of the that existed until 2005. is situated 4 km north of Rafah.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Canada Camp and Rafah Refugee Camp.

Locality
was a Palestinian refugee camp in the northern near , formed in 1972 and evacuated in 2000. The Camp was named after the Canadian contingent of the United Nations Emergency Force, which formerly had a camp at the location.

Suburb
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Rafah Camp is one of eight Palestinian refugee camps in the . It is located in the along the Gaza–Egypt border. It was established in 1949 and currently forms part of the city of .

Town
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is a city in the southern , , and the capital of the . It is located 30 kilometers south-west of . In 2017, had a population of 171,889.

Rafah

Latitude
31.28771° or 31° 17′ 16″ north
Longitude
34.23634° or 34° 14′ 11″ east
Population
31,100
Open location code
8G3P76QP+3G
Open­Street­Map ID
node 11301403586
Open­Street­Map feature
historic=­ruins
Wiki­data ID
Q2457100
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Satellite Map

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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Zulu—“Rafah” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “رفح”
  • Basque: “Rafah”
  • Belarusian: “Рафах (Эгіпет)”
  • Belarusian: “Рафах”
  • Central Kurdish: “ڕەفەح”
  • Chinese: “拉法 (埃及)”
  • Chinese: “拉法赫 (埃及)”
  • Czech: “Rafah”
  • Dutch: “Rafah”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “رفح”
  • Esperanto: “Rafah (Egiptio)”
  • Esperanto: “Rafah”
  • French: “Rafah”
  • German: “Rafah”
  • Greek: “Ράφα”
  • Hebrew: “רפיח המצרית”
  • Irish: “Rafah”
  • Italian: “Rafah”
  • Japanese: “ラファ”
  • Japanese: “ラファフ (エジプト)”
  • Persian: “رفح”
  • Polish: “Rafah”
  • Portuguese: “Rafa”
  • Russian: “Рафах”
  • Scots: “Rafah, Egyp”
  • Scots: “Rafah”
  • Serbian: “Рафа”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Rafah (Egipat)”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Rafah”
  • Slovenian: “Rafa”
  • South Azerbaijani: “رفح (میصر)”
  • South Azerbaijani: “رفح”
  • Spanish: “Rafah”
  • Swedish: “Rafah”
  • Thai: “เราะฟะห์ (ประเทศอียิปต์)”
  • Thai: “เราะฟะห์”
  • Ukrainian: “Рафах”
  • Urdu: “رفح، مصر”
  • Zulu: “Rafah, Gibhithe”

Places with the Same Name

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Notable Places Nearby

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