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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 include 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. The mountain is a sacred site for Jews, Christians and Muslims.

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is a large resort at the south tip of the Sinai Peninsula in . The main reasons to visit are for scuba-diving and other water and beach activities, and to explore the Sinai desert.

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is a town in , 85 km north of on the Gulf of Aqaba, near the southern tip of Sinai. It is a place that many have fallen in love with over the years, and return to time and time again.

Destinations to Discover

Explore places such as Arish and Taba.

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or El Arīsh is the largest city on the Sinai Peninsula, with about 165,000 inhabitants, as well as the capital of North Sinai Governorate. Lying on the Mediterranean coast of the peninsula, it is 344 km northeast of .

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, in the eastern Sinai peninsula of , is on the border with , close to the city and airport of . The area within one km of the border is a duty-free zone with a couple of large resort hotels, a few shops, the bus station and other amenities.

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is on the eastern coast of 's Sinai Peninsula, 70 km south of and 180 km north of Sharm el Sheikh, and only 120 km from St. Catherine.

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is a town on the Sinai Peninsula, . A purpose-built resort nestling between mountains and the sea with 5 large hotels, diving & water sports centre and a golf course.

Sinai

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-skiereiland”
  • Afrikaans: “Sinaï-skiereiland”
  • Afrikaans: “Sinai”
  • Afrikaans: “Sinaï”
  • Afrikaans: “Sinaiskiereiland”
  • Afrikaans: “Sinaïskiereiland”
  • Albanian: “Gadishulli Sinai”
  • Amharic: “የሲና ልሳነ ምድር”
  • Arabic: “السيناء”
  • Arabic: “سينا”
  • Arabic: “سيناويون”
  • Arabic: “شبه جزيرة السيناء”
  • Arabic: “شبه جزيرة سيناء”
  • Arabic: “صحراء 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”
  • Bashkir: “Синай, Синай сүллеге”
  • Basque: “Sinai”
  • Basque: “Sinaiko penintsula”
  • Belarusian: “Сінайскі паўвостраў”
  • Belarusian: “Сынай”
  • Belarusian: “Сынайская паўвыспа”
  • Belarusian: “Сынайскі паўвостраў”
  • Bengali: “সিনাই উপদ্বীপ”
  • Bosnian: “Sinaj”
  • Bosnian: “Sinajsko poluostrvo”
  • Breton: “Ledenez Sinai”
  • Breton: “Sinai”
  • Bulgarian: “Синай”
  • Bulgarian: “Синайски полуостров”
  • Catalan: “Península de Sinaí”
  • Catalan: “península del Sinaí”
  • Catalan: “Península del Sinaí”
  • Cebuano: “Sinai Peninsula”
  • Cebuano: “Sinai”
  • Cebuano: “Sinay”
  • Cebuano: “Sinayi”
  • Central Kurdish: “نیمچەدوورگەی سینا”
  • Chinese: “Sinai Poàn-tó”
  • Chinese: “西奈半岛”
  • Chinese: “西奈半島”
  • Chuvash: “Синай çурутравĕ”
  • Croatian: “Poluotok Sinaj”
  • Croatian: “Sinaj”
  • Croatian: “Sinajski poluotok”
  • Czech: “Sinajská poušť”
  • Czech: “Sinajský poloostrov”
  • Danish: “Sinai-halvøen”
  • Danish: “Sinai”
  • Danish: “Sinaihalvøen”
  • Danish: “Sinaj”
  • Danish: “Sinajhalvøen”
  • Dimli (individual language): “Nêmadey Sina”
  • Dutch: “Sinaï”
  • Dutch: “Sinaischiereiland”
  • Dutch: “Sinaïschiereiland”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “سينا”
  • Esperanto: “Dezerto Sinaja”
  • Esperanto: “Duoninsulo de Sinajo”
  • Esperanto: “Duoninsulo Sinaja”
  • Esperanto: “Duoninsulo Sinajo”
  • Esperanto: “Monto sinaja”
  • Esperanto: “Sina”
  • Esperanto: “Sinai”
  • Esperanto: “Sinaja Dezerto”
  • Esperanto: “Sinaja duoninsulo”
  • Esperanto: “Sinaja monto”
  • Esperanto: “Sinajo”
  • Estonian: “Siinai poolsaar”
  • Faroese: “Sinaihálvoyggin”
  • Finnish: “Siinai”
  • Finnish: “Siinain niemimaa”
  • Finnish: “Siinain vuori”
  • French: “Désert du Sinaï”
  • French: “Péninsule du Sinaï”
  • French: “Sinai”
  • French: “Sinaï”
  • Galician: “Península do Sinaí”
  • Galician: “Sinaí”
  • Georgian: “სინაის ნახევარკუნძული”
  • Georgian: “სინის ნახევარკუნძული”
  • German: “Sinai-Halbinsel”
  • German: “Sinai”
  • German: “Sinaihalbinsel”
  • Greek: “Χερσόνησος του Σινά”
  • Guarani: “Sinai”
  • Hebrew: “חצי האי סיני”
  • Hebrew: “מדבר סיני”
  • Hebrew: “סיני”
  • Hindi: “सीनाई प्रायद्वीप”
  • Hungarian: “Sinai-félsziget”
  • Hungarian: “Sínai-félsziget”
  • Hungarian: “Szináj (félsziget)”
  • Hungarian: “Szináj-félsziget”
  • Icelandic: “Sínaí-skagi”
  • Icelandic: “Sínaískagi”
  • Icelandic: “Sínaískaginn”
  • Ido: “Sinai-peninsulo”
  • Ido: “Sinai”
  • Indonesian: “Semenanjung Sinai”
  • Irish: “Leithinis Síonáí”
  • Italian: “Deserto del Sinai”
  • Italian: “penisola del Sinai”
  • Italian: “Penisola del Sinai”
  • Italian: “Sinai”
  • Japanese: “シナイ”
  • 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: “Peninsola del Sinai”
  • Ladino: “Sinai”
  • Latin: “Paeninsula Sinaitica”
  • Latin: “Sinai paeninsula”
  • Latvian: “Sinaja pussala”
  • Latvian: “Sīnaja pussala”
  • Latvian: “Sīnāja pussala”
  • Latvian: “Sinaja”
  • Latvian: “Sīnaja”
  • Latvian: “Sīnāja”
  • Latvian: “Sinajas pussala”
  • Latvian: “Sīnajas pussala”
  • Latvian: “Sīnājas pussalas”
  • Lingala: “Sinaí”
  • Lithuanian: “Sinajaus pusiasalis”
  • Lithuanian: “Sinajus”
  • Lombard: “Sinai”
  • Low German: “Sinai”
  • Luxembourgish: “Sinai-Hallefinsel”
  • Macedonian: “Синај”
  • 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: “साइनाई द्वीपकल्प”
  • Marathi: “सिनाई द्वीपकल्प”
  • Mazanderani: “سینا جزیره‌مونا”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Se-nái Poàn-tó”
  • 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: “Sinai-halvøya”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Sinaihalvøya”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Sinaihalvøyen”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Sinai-halvøya”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Sinaihalvøya”
  • Norwegian: “Sinaihalvøya”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Sinai”
  • Official Aramaic (700-300 BCE): “ܣܝܢܝ”
  • Official Aramaic (700-300 BCE): “ࡎࡉࡍࡀࡉ”
  • Ossetian: “Синайы æрдæгсакъадах”
  • Panjabi: “ਸੀਨਾਈ ਟਾਪੂਨੁਮਾ”
  • Persian: “بیابان سینا”
  • Persian: “شبه جزیره سینا”
  • Persian: “شبه‌جزیره سینا”
  • Persian: “شبه‌جزیرهٔ سینا”
  • Persian: “صحرای سینا”
  • Piemontese: “Sìnai”
  • Polish: “Półwysep Synaj”
  • Polish: “Synaj”
  • Polish: “Szibh Dżazirat Sina”
  • Portuguese: “Deserto de Sinai”
  • Portuguese: “Deserto do Sinai”
  • Portuguese: “o Sinai”
  • Portuguese: “Península de Sinai”
  • Portuguese: “Península do Sinai”
  • Portuguese: “Sinai”
  • Pushto: “د سینا ټاپووزمه”
  • Pushto: “سينا ټاپووزمه”
  • Romanian: “Deșertul Sinai”
  • Romanian: “Peninsula Sinai”
  • Romanian: “Sinai”
  • Russian: “полуостров Синай”
  • Russian: “Синай”
  • Russian: “Синайская пустыня”
  • Russian: “Синайский полуостров”
  • Scots: “Sinai Peninsula”
  • Serbian: “Полуострво Синај”
  • Serbian: “Синајско полуострво”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Sinaj”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Sinajska pustinja”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Sinajski poluotok”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Sinajsko poluostrvo”
  • Sicilian: “Sinai”
  • Sicilian: “Sìnai”
  • 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: “Peninsula de Sinai”
  • Spanish: “Peninsula de Sinaí”
  • Spanish: “Península de Sinaí”
  • Spanish: “Peninsula del Sinai”
  • Spanish: “Peninsula del Sinaí”
  • Spanish: “Península del Sinaí”
  • Spanish: “Peninsula Sinai”
  • Spanish: “Peninsula Sinaí”
  • Spanish: “Península Sinaí”
  • Spanish: “Sinai”
  • Spanish: “Sinaí”
  • Spanish: “Sinaï”
  • Swahili: “Rasi ya Sinai”
  • Swedish: “Sinai Peninsula”
  • Swedish: “Sinai-halvön”
  • Swedish: “Sinai”
  • Swedish: “Sinaihalvön”
  • Swedish: “Sinaiöknen”
  • Tagalog: “Tangway ng Sinai”
  • Tamil: “சினாய் தீபகற்பம்”
  • Tamil: “சினாய்”
  • Thai: “Sinai Peninsula”
  • Thai: “คาบสมุทรซีนาย”
  • Thai: “คาบสมุทรไซนาย”
  • Thai: “คาบสมุทรไซนิไอ”
  • Thai: “คาบสมุทรไซไน”
  • Tosk Albanian: “Sinai-Halbinsel”
  • Turkish: “Sina çölü”
  • Turkish: “Sina Yarımadası”
  • Turkish: “Sina yarımdası”
  • Turkish: “Sina”
  • Tyap: “A̱fa̱fap-a̱byin Si̱nai”
  • Tyap: “Li̱m-a̱byin Si̱nai”
  • Ukrainian: “Синайська пустеля”
  • Ukrainian: “Синайський півострів”
  • Ukrainian: “Сінайський півострів”
  • Upper Sorbian: “Sinai”
  • Urdu: “جزيرہ نمائے سینا”
  • Urdu: “جزیرہ نما سینا”
  • Urdu: “جزیرہ نمائے سینا”
  • Urdu: “خاکنائے سوئز”
  • Urdu: “خاکنائے سویز”
  • Urdu: “سنائی”
  • Urdu: “سینا”
  • Urdu: “وادئ سینا”
  • Uzbek: “Sinay yarim oroli”
  • Vietnamese: “Bán đảo Sinai”
  • Vietnamese: “Sinai”
  • Vlaams: “Sinaï-schiereiland”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Rawis han Sinai”
  • Welsh: “Gorynys Sinai”
  • Welsh: “Penrhyn Sinai”
  • Welsh: “Sinai”
  • Western Frisian: “Sinaï”
  • Western Panjabi: “جزیرہ نما سینا”
  • Wu Chinese: “西奈半岛”
  • Yoruba: “Sinai Peninsula”
  • Yoruba: “Sìnáì”
  • Yue Chinese: “西奈半島”
  • “ma Sina”

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