Nekhel
Nikhel is administratively a city and the capital of the eponymous markaz North Sinai Governorate, Egypt. It is located in the heart of the Sinai Peninsula bordered to its south by the South Sinai Governorate, and is bordered from the west by the Sinai side of the Suez governorate, from the east by the international border of Egypt with Israel, and from the north by Al-Hasana markaz.Places of Interest
Highlights include An-Nekhel Fortress.
An-Nekhel Fortress
Castle
Nekhel
- Type: City with 11,000 residents
- Description: human settlement in Egypt
- Categories: human settlement and locality
- Location: North Sinai Governorate, Egypt, North Africa, Africa
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Latitude
29.9115° or 29° 54′ 41″ north
Longitude
33.746° or 33° 44′ 46″ east
Population
11,000
Elevation
421 metres (1,381 feet)
Open location code
7GXMWP6W+H9
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
place=city
Wikidata ID
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Urdu—“Nekhel” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “نخل (مدينة)”
- Arabic: “نخل”
- Arabic: “نِخِل”
- Asturian: “Nekhel”
- Chinese: “尼赫”
- Danish: “Nekhel”
- Dutch: “Nekhel”
- French: “An-Nakhl”
- French: “Nakhl”
- German: “Nachl”
- German: “Nakhl”
- Greek: “Νεχέλ”
- Hebrew: “נח’ל”
- Irish: “Nekhel”
- Malayalam: “നെഖെൽ”
- Persian: “نخل (استان شمال سیناء)”
- Persian: “نخل”
- Polish: “Nachl”
- Russian: “Нахль”
- Russian: “Нехель”
- Russian: “Нехль”
- Serbian: “Нахл”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Nahl”
- South Azerbaijani: “نخل (قوزئی سینا)”
- South Azerbaijani: “نخل”
- Swahili: “Nekhel”
- Swedish: “Nekhel”
- Turkish: “Nahl (şehir)”
- Turkish: “Nahl”
- Ukrainian: “Нахль”
- Ukrainian: “Нехель (Єгипет)”
- Ukrainian: “Нехель”
- Urdu: “نخل (مصر)”
- Urdu: “نخل”
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