Yamit

Yamit was an Israeli settlement in the northern part of the 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 in April 1982, as part of the terms of the 1979 Egypt–Israel peace treaty.
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  • Locality
  • Description: former Israeli settlement on the occupied Sinai

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Canada Camp and Sheikh Zuweid.
Locality
was a Palestinian refugee camp in the… is situated 7 km east of Yamit.
Town
is a Bedouin town in the… is situated 9 km southwest of 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
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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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