Sharm
Wadi Sharm is a valley or dry river with flow ephemeral or intermittent, flowing almost exclusively during the rainy season, located in the northeast of the United Arab Emirates, in the Emirate of Fujairah.Photo: IbrahimKumar, CC BY-SA 4.0.
- Type: Town
- Description: wadi in the United Arab Emirates
- Also known as: “Ghalīlat Da‘‘ān”, “Sha’biyyah Sharm”, “Sharam”, “Wadi Sharam”, “Wadi Sharm”, and “Wādī Sharm”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Al Badiyah Mosque.
Al Badiyah Mosque
Mosque
Al Bidya Mosque is a historical mosque in the village of Al Bidya Emirate of Fujairah, the U.A.E. It was the oldest known mosque in the country, prior to the discovery in September 2018 of the ruins of a 1,000-year-old mosque dating back to the Islamic Golden Age, near the Sheikh Khalifa Bin Zayed Al Nahyan Mosque in the city of Al Ain, Emirate of Abu Dhabi. Al Badiyah Mosque is situated 3½ km south of Sharm.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Al Aqah and Al Bidya.
Al Aqah
Town
Al Aqah is a coastal town located in the Emirate of Fujairah, United Arab Emirates. The area is located 50 km north of the city of Fujairah and directly overlooks the Gulf of Oman. Al Aqah is situated 3½ km north of Sharm.
Al Bidya
Town
Al Bidya also Al-Badiyah or Al-Bidyah is a settlement in the Emirate of Fujairah, the United Arab Emirates. It is the site of a historical mosque of the same name, which is the oldest functional mosque in the country, dating back to the 15th century. Al Bidya is situated 3½ km south of Sharm.
Zubarah
Suburb
Zubarah is a coastal suburb to the North of Khor Fakkan, Sharjah, in the United Arab Emirates. It is the northernmost district of Khor Fakkan municipality. Zubarah is situated 7 km south of Sharm.
Sharm
- Categories: wadi and locality
- Location: Fujairah, United Arab Emirates, Middle East, Asia
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
25.4708° or 25° 28′ 15″ northLongitude
56.34893° or 56° 20′ 56″ eastOpen location code
7HQRF8CX+8HOpenStreetMap ID
node 8128209874OpenStreetMap feature
place=townWikidata ID
Q21735259
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Satellite Map
Discover Sharm from above in high-definition satellite imagery.
In Other Languages
From Arabic to Swedish—“Sharm” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “شرم”
- Arabic: “وادي شرم”
- Cebuano: “Ghalīlat Da‘‘ān”
- French: “Sharm”
- German: “Sharm”
- Spanish: “Ghalīlat Da‘‘ān”
- Spanish: “Sharm”
- Spanish: “Wadi Sharam”
- Spanish: “Wadi Sharm”
- Spanish: “Wādī Sharm”
- Swedish: “Ghalīlat Da‘‘ān”
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