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.Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Canada Camp and Sheikh Zuweid.
Canada Camp
Locality
Canada Camp was a Palestinian refugee camp in the northern Sinai near Rafah, 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. Canada Camp is situated 7 km east of Yamit.
Sheikh Zuweid
Town
Sheikh Zuweid is a Bedouin town in the North Sinai Governorate of Egypt near the border with the Gaza Strip. It is situated between the cities of Arish and Rafah and is 334 kilometers northeast of Cairo. It had a population of around 60,000 as of 2015. Sheikh Zuweid is situated 9 km southwest of Yamit.
Yamit
- Type: Locality
- Description: former Israeli settlement on the occupied Sinai
- Categories: Israeli settlement, abandoned village, ruins, and historic site
- Location: North Sinai Governorate, Egypt, North Africa, Africa
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Latitude
31.27403° or 31° 16′ 27″ northLongitude
34.16799° or 34° 10′ 5″ eastOpen location code
8G3P75F9+J5OpenStreetMap ID
node 768794811OpenStreetMap feature
historic=ruinsOpenStreetMap feature
place=localityWikidata ID
Q1681445
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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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