Sinai

The Sinai Peninsula, often shortened to Sinai is the easternmost part of between the Mediterranean and the Gulfs of Suez and Aqaba, both forks of the Red Sea.
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Essential Destinations

Top destinations: Mount Sinai and Sharm el-Sheikh.

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is in the middle of the Sinai Peninsula, and rises 2,285 metres above sea level.

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is a large resort at the south tip of the Sinai Peninsula in .

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is a town in , 85 km north…

Destinations to Discover

Places to explore: Arish and Taba.

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or El Arīsh is the largest city on the Sinai…

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, in the eastern Sinai peninsula of …

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is on the eastern coast of 's Sinai…

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is a town on the Sinai Peninsula, .

Sinai

  • Type: Desert with 597,000 residents
  • Description: peninsula in the Red Sea
  • Also known as: “Désert du Sinaï”, “Deserto de Sinai”, “Deserto del Sinai”, “Deserto do Sinai”, “Deșertul Sinai”, “Dezerto Sinaja”, “Duoninsulo de Sinajo”, “Duoninsulo Sinaja”, “Duoninsulo Sinajo”, “Gorynys Sinai”, “Ledenez Sinai”, “Monto sinaja”, “o Sinai”, “Peninsola del Sinai”, “Peninsula de Sinai”, “Peninsula de Sinaí”, “Península de Sinai”, “Península de Sinaí”, “Peninsula del Sinai”, “Peninsula del Sinaí”, “Península do Sinai”, “Peninsula Sinaí”, “Península Sinaí”, “Péninsule du Sinaï”, “Penrhyn Sinai”, “Poluotok Sinaj”, “Półwysep Synaj”, “Se-nái Poàⁿ-tó”, “Shibh Gezîret Sînâ’”, “Shibh Jazīrat Sīnā’”, “Siinain niemimaa”, “Siinain vuori”, “Sina”, “Sina çölü”, “Sina yarımdası”, “Sinài”, “Sinai paeninsula”, “Sinai Peninsula”, “Sinai-félsziget”, “Sinai-halvön”, “Sinai-halvøya”, “Sinai-peninsulo”, “Sínaí-skagi”, “Sinai-skiereiland”, “Sinaï-skiereiland”, “Sinaihalbinsel”, “Sinaihalvøen”, “Sinaihalvøyen”, “Sinaiko penintsula”, “Sinaiöknen”, “Sinaischiereiland”, “Sinaïschiereiland”, “Sínaískaginn”, “Sinaiskiereiland”, “Sinaïskiereiland”, “Sinaitic Peninsula”, “Sinaja”, “Sīnaja”, “Sīnāja”, “Sinaja Dezerto”, “Sinaja duoninsulo”, “Sinaja monto”, “Sinaja pussala”, “Sīnaja pussala”, “Sinajas pussala”, “Sīnajas pussala”, “Sīnājas pussalas”, “Sinajhalvøen”, “Sinajská poušť”, “Sinajska pustinja”, “Sinajsko poluostrvo”, “Sinajus”, “Sinay”, “Szibh Dżazirat Sina”, “Szináj (félsziget)”, “Szináj-félsziget”, “the Sinai”, “Полуострво Синај”, “полуостров Синай”, “Синай, Синай сүллеге”, “Синайская пустыня”, “Синайська пустеля”, “Синај”, “Сінайський півострів”, “Сынай”, “Сынайская паўвыспа”, “სინაის ნახევარკუნძული”, “חצי האי סיני”, “מדבר סיני”, “السيناء”, “بیابان سینا”, “جزيرہ نمائے سینا”, “جزیرہ نمائے سینا”, “خاکنائے سوئز”, “خاکنائے سویز”, “سنائی”, “سينا ټاپووزمه”, “سيناويون”, “سینا”, “شبه جزيرة السيناء”, “شبه جزیره سینا”, “شبه‌جزیرهٔ سینا”, “صحراء سيناء”, “صحرای سینا”, “وادئ سینا”, “ࡎࡉࡍࡀࡉ”, “साइनाई द्वीपकल्प”, “சினாய்”, “คาบสมุทรไซนิไอ”, “คาบสมุทรไซไน”, and “シナイ”
  • Category: peninsula
  • Location: , , ,
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Latitude of center
29.5° or 29° 30′ north
Longitude of center
34° east
Population
597,000
Elevation
730 metres (2,395 feet)
Geo­Names ID
347930
Wiki­data ID
Q36755
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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Yue Chinese—“Sinai” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “Sinai”
  • Albanian: “Gadishulli Sinai”
  • Amharic: “የሲና ልሳነ ምድር”
  • Arabic: “شبه جزيرة سيناء”
  • Aragonese: “Peninsula d’o Sinai”
  • Armenian: “Սինայի թերակղզի”
  • Asturian: “Península del Sinaí”
  • Avaric: “Синаялъул бащдаб чӀинкӀиллъи”
  • Azerbaijani: “Sina Yarımadası”
  • Azerbaijani: “Sinay yarımadası”
  • Bashkir: “Синай ярымутрауы”
  • Basque: “Sinai”
  • Belarusian: “Сінайскі паўвостраў”
  • Belarusian: “Сынайскі паўвостраў”
  • Bengali: “সিনাই উপদ্বীপ”
  • Bosnian: “Sinaj”
  • Breton: “Sinai”
  • Bulgarian: “Синай”
  • Bulgarian: “Синайски полуостров”
  • Catalan: “península del Sinaí”
  • Catalan: “Península del Sinaí”
  • Cebuano: “Sinayi”
  • Central Kurdish: “نیمچەدوورگەی سینا”
  • Chinese: “西奈半島”
  • Chuvash: “Синай çурутравĕ”
  • Croatian: “Sinajski poluotok”
  • Czech: “Sinajský poloostrov”
  • Danish: “Sinai-halvøen”
  • Dimli (individual language): “Nêmadey Sina”
  • Dutch: “Sinaï”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “سينا”
  • Esperanto: “Sinajo”
  • Estonian: “Siinai poolsaar”
  • Faroese: “Sinaihálvoyggin”
  • Finnish: “Siinai”
  • French: “Sinaï”
  • Galician: “Península do Sinaí”
  • Georgian: “სინის ნახევარკუნძული”
  • German: “Sinai-Halbinsel”
  • German: “Sinai”
  • Greek: “Χερσόνησος του Σινά”
  • Guarani: “Sinai”
  • Hebrew: “סיני”
  • Hindi: “सीनाई प्रायद्वीप”
  • Hungarian: “Sínai-félsziget”
  • Icelandic: “Sínaískagi”
  • Ido: “Sinai”
  • Indonesian: “Semenanjung Sinai”
  • Irish: “Leithinis Síonáí”
  • Italian: “penisola del Sinai”
  • Italian: “Penisola del Sinai”
  • Italian: “Sinai”
  • Japanese: “シナイ半島”
  • Javanese: “Semenanjung Sinai”
  • Javanese: “Ujung Sinai”
  • Kazakh: “Синай түбегі”
  • Kirghiz: “Синай жарым аралы”
  • Korean: “시나이반도”
  • Kurdish: “Nîvgirava Sîna”
  • Ladino: “Peninsola de Sinai”
  • Ladino: “Sinai”
  • Latin: “Paeninsula Sinaitica”
  • Latvian: “Sīnāja pussala”
  • Lingala: “Sinaí”
  • Lithuanian: “Sinajaus pusiasalis”
  • Lombard: “Sinai”
  • Low German: “Sinai”
  • Luxembourgish: “Sinai-Hallefinsel”
  • Macedonian: “Синајски Полуостров”
  • Malagasy: “Tany efitr’ i Sinay”
  • Malagasy: “Tany efitr’i Sinay”
  • Malay: “Semenanjung Sinai”
  • Malayalam: “സീനായ്‌ ഉപദ്വീപ്”
  • Malayalam: “സീനായ് ഉപദ്വീപ്”
  • Manx: “Lieh-innys Sinai”
  • Marathi: “सिनाई द्वीपकल्प”
  • Mazanderani: “سینا جزیره‌مونا”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Se-nái Poàn-tó”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Sinai Poàn-tó”
  • Mingrelian: “სინაიშ ჩქონი”
  • Mongolian: “Синайн хойг”
  • Nepali: “सिनाई प्रायद्वीप”
  • Northern Frisian: “Sinai”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Sinaihalvøya”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Sinaihalvøya”
  • Norwegian: “Sinaihalvøya”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Sinai”
  • Official Aramaic (700-300 BCE): “ܣܝܢܝ”
  • Ossetian: “Синайы æрдæгсакъадах”
  • Panjabi: “ਸੀਨਾਈ ਟਾਪੂਨੁਮਾ”
  • Persian: “شبه‌جزیره سینا”
  • Piemontese: “Sìnai”
  • Polish: “Synaj”
  • Portuguese: “Sinai”
  • Pushto: “د سینا ټاپووزمه”
  • Romanian: “Peninsula Sinai”
  • Romanian: “Sinai”
  • Russian: “Синай”
  • Russian: “Синайский полуостров”
  • Scots: “Sinai Peninsula”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “Rubha Shinài”
  • Serbian: “Синајско полуострво”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Sinaj”
  • Sicilian: “Sinai”
  • Sindhi: “سينائي اپٻيٽ”
  • Sinhala: “සයිනායි අර්ධද්වීපය”
  • Sinhala: “සීනායි අර්ධද්වීපය”
  • Slovak: “Sinajský polostrov”
  • Slovenian: “Sinaj”
  • Slovenian: “Sinajski polotok”
  • Somali: “Siinaa”
  • South Azerbaijani: “سینا یاریم آداسی”
  • Spanish: “El Sinaí”
  • Spanish: “Península del Sinaí”
  • Spanish: “Sinaí”
  • Swahili: “Rasi ya Sinai”
  • Swedish: “Sinaihalvön”
  • Swiss German: “Sinai-Halbinsel”
  • Tagalog: “Tangway ng Sinai”
  • Tamil: “சினாய் தீபகற்பம்”
  • Thai: “คาบสมุทรซีนาย”
  • Thai: “คาบสมุทรไซนาย”
  • Turkish: “Sina Yarımadası”
  • Tyap: “A̱fa̱fap-a̱byin Si̱nai”
  • Tyap: “Li̱m-a̱byin Si̱nai”
  • Ukrainian: “Синайський півострів”
  • Upper Sorbian: “Sinai”
  • Urdu: “جزیرہ نما سینا”
  • Uzbek: “Sinay yarim oroli”
  • Vietnamese: “Bán đảo Sinai”
  • Vlaams: “Sinaï-schiereiland”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Rawis han Sinai”
  • Welsh: “Sinai”
  • Western Frisian: “Sinaï”
  • Western Panjabi: “جزیرہ نما سینا”
  • Wu Chinese: “西奈半岛”
  • Yoruba: “Sìnáì”
  • Yue Chinese: “西奈半島”
  • “ma Sina”

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