Yamit
Yamit was an Israeli settlement in the northern part of the Sinai Peninsula with a population of about 2,500 people. Yamit was established during Israel's occupation of the peninsula from the end of the 1967 Six-Day War until that part of the Sinai was handed over to Egypt in April 1982, as part of the terms of the 1979 Egypt–Israel peace treaty.- Locality
- Description: former Israeli settlement on the occupied Sinai
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Canada Camp and Sheikh Zuweid.
Canada Camp
Locality
Canada Camp was a Palestinian refugee camp in the… Canada Camp is situated 7 km east of Yamit.
Sheikh Zuweid
Town
Sheikh Zuweid is a Bedouin town in the… Sheikh Zuweid is situated 9 km southwest of Yamit.
Yamit
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Latitude
31.27403° or 31° 16′ 27″ north
Longitude
34.16799° or 34° 10′ 5″ east
Open location code
8G3P75F9+J5
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
historic=ruins
OpenStreetMap feature
place=locality
Wikidata ID
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Urdu—“Yamit” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “ياميت”
- Arabic: “يميت”
- Bulgarian: “Ямит”
- Czech: “Jamit”
- Czech: “Yamit”
- Dutch: “Yamit”
- French: “Yamit”
- German: “Jamit”
- German: “Yamit”
- Greek: “Γιαμίτ”
- Hebrew: “ימית (עיר)”
- Hebrew: “ימית”
- Indonesian: “Yamit”
- Italian: “Yamit”
- Japanese: “ヤミット”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Yamit”
- Norwegian: “Yamit”
- Persian: “شهرک یامیت”
- Persian: “یامیت”
- Russian: “Ямит”
- South Azerbaijani: “یامیت”
- Swedish: “Yamit”
- Upper Sorbian: “Jamit”
- Urdu: “یمیت”
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