Sudan
Northern Sudan
Red Sea

Suakin

Suakin is a port city in . Once considered the height of medieval luxury on the Red Sea, the old city built of coral is now in ruins.
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  • Type: City with 40,000 residents
  • Description: port in north-eastern Sudan on the west coast of the Red Sea
  • Also known as: “Sawakin” and “Suaquem”

Suakin

Latitude
19.1031° or 19° 6′ 11″ north
Longitude
37.3312° or 37° 19′ 52″ east
Population
40,000
Elevation
4 metres (13 feet)
United Nations Location Code
SD SSD
Open location code
7GFV483J+6F
Open­Street­Map ID
node 288512635
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
367544
Wiki­data ID
Q571215
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Satellite Map

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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Zulu—“Suakin” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “سواكن”
  • Armenian: “Սուակին”
  • Asturian: “Suakin”
  • Azerbaijani: “Suakin”
  • Bengali: “সাকিন”
  • Catalan: “Suakin”
  • Cebuano: “Sawākin”
  • Chinese: “萨瓦金”
  • Czech: “Suakin”
  • Danish: “Suakin”
  • Dutch: “Sawakin”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “سواكن”
  • Finnish: “Suakin”
  • French: “Suakin”
  • German: “Sawakin”
  • German: “Sawākin”
  • Greek: “Σουακίν”
  • Gujarati: “સુકિન”
  • Hebrew: “סואכין”
  • Hindi: “सुआकीं”
  • Indonesian: “Suakin”
  • Italian: “Suakin”
  • Japanese: “スアキン”
  • Japanese: “スアキン島”
  • Japanese: “スワーキン島”
  • Kannada: “ಸುವಾಕಿನ್”
  • Kazakh: “Суакин қаласы”
  • Korean: “수아킨”
  • Latvian: “Suakina”
  • Lithuanian: “Suakinas”
  • Malay: “Suakin”
  • Marathi: “सुकिन”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Suakin”
  • Persian: “سواکن”
  • Polish: “Sawakin”
  • Polish: “Suakin”
  • Portuguese: “Suakin”
  • Portuguese: “Suaquém”
  • Romanian: “Suakin”
  • Russian: “Савакине”
  • Russian: “Суакин”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Suakin”
  • Sinhala: “සුඅකින්”
  • Slovenian: “Sawakin”
  • Slovenian: “Suakin”
  • South Azerbaijani: “سواکن”
  • Spanish: “Suakin”
  • Swahili: “Suakin”
  • Swedish: “Sawakin”
  • Tamil: “சுவாகின்”
  • Telugu: “సౌకిన్”
  • Thai: “ซัวคิน”
  • Turkish: “Savakin”
  • Turkish: “Sevakin”
  • Turkish: “Suakin”
  • Ukrainian: “Суакін”
  • Urdu: “سواکین”
  • Vietnamese: “Suakin”
  • Zulu: “Suakin”
  • “Suakin”

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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 “Suakin”. Photo: Bertramz, CC BY 3.0.