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.Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.
Places of Interest
Highlights include An-Nekhel Fortress.
An-Nekhel Fortress
Castle
Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.
The Fortress of an-Nekhel is a Ksar located in the Nekhel Municipality of the Sinai Peninsula in Egypt. It holds a strategic location at the exact center of the peninsula.
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″ northLongitude
33.746° or 33° 44′ 46″ eastPopulation
11,000Elevation
421 metres (1,381 feet)Open location code
7GXMWP6W+H9OpenStreetMap ID
node 248035196OpenStreetMap feature
place=cityWikidata ID
Q5602740
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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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