Egypt
Upper Egypt
Aswan Governorate

Silsila

Silsila is an locality - a range of sandstone hills - in the region of , located on the river Nile some 42 km south of , alomost immediately north of and some 65 km north of .
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  • Type: Peak with an elevation of 151 metres
  • Description: village in Aswan Governorate, Egypt
  • Also known as: “Gebel al Silsila”, “Gebel el-Silsila”, “Gebel es Silsila, Gebel al Silsila, Jabal al Silsilah”, and “Khenet”

Silsila

Latitude
24.6333° or 24° 38′ north
Longitude
32.9333° or 32° 56′ east
Elevation
151 metres (495 feet)
Open location code
7GPJJWMM+88
Open­Street­Map ID
node 768077535
Open­Street­Map feature
natural=­peak
Geo­Names ID
8224897
Wiki­data ID
Q1261930
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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Ukrainian—“Silsila” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “جبل السلسلة (قرية)”
  • Arabic: “جبل السلسلة”
  • Arabic: “قرية جبل السلسلة”
  • Armenian: “Գեբել էլ-Սիլսիլա”
  • Armenian: “Գեբել էլ֊Սիլսիլա”
  • Basque: “Gebel el-Silsila”
  • Catalan: “Djebel al-Silsila”
  • Cebuano: “Gebel el-Silsila”
  • Dutch: “Chenet (Egypte)”
  • Dutch: “Chenet”
  • Dutch: “Gebel el-Silsila”
  • Dutch: “Khenet”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “جبل السلسله”
  • French: “Gebel al Silsila”
  • French: “Gebel Silsileh”
  • French: “Silsilis”
  • German: “Dschabal as-Silsila”
  • German: “Gebel al Silsila”
  • German: “Gebel el-Silsile”
  • German: “Gebel es-Silsila”
  • German: “Gebel Silsila”
  • Hebrew: “ג’בל א-סילסילה”
  • Indonesian: “Gebel el-Silsila”
  • Italian: “Gebel Silsila”
  • Japanese: “ジェベル・エル＝シルシラ”
  • Persian: “کوه السلسله”
  • Persian: “کوه السلسه”
  • Polish: “Gebel el-Silsila”
  • Russian: “Гебель эс-Сильсила”
  • Slovenian: “Gebel el-Silsila”
  • South Azerbaijani: “کوه السلسه”
  • Spanish: “Gebel el Silsila”
  • Spanish: “Gebel el-Silsila”
  • Spanish: “Gebel Silsileh”
  • Spanish: “Jeny”
  • Swahili: “Gebel el-Silsila”
  • Swahili: “Khenet”
  • Swedish: “Gebel el-Silsila”
  • Ukrainian: “Гебель ес-Сильсіла”

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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikivoyage page “Silsila”. Photo: Scitim, CC BY-SA 3.0.