El Alamein
El Alamein is city on the north coast of Egypt, famous as the site of major battles between British and German forces during the Second World War. This article also includes the adjacent areas of New Alamein, Marina el Alamein and Leukaspis.Photo: TheEgyptian, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.
Notable Places in the Area
Alamein Memorial
Memorial
Photo: RolandUnger, CC BY-SA 3.0.
The Alamein Memorial is a Commonwealth War Graves Commission war memorial in the El Alamein War Cemetery, El Alamein, Egypt.
El Alamein
- Type: City with 10,900 residents
- Description: town in the northern Matruh Governorate, Egypt
- Category: locality
- Location: Matruh Governorate, Lower Egypt, Egypt, North Africa, Africa
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Latitude
30.8339° or 30° 50' 2" northLongitude
28.9493° or 28° 56' 57" eastPopulation
10,900Elevation
7 metres (23 feet)Open Location Code
8G2CRWMX+HPOpenStreetMap ID
node 768026937OpenStreetMap Feature
place=cityGeoNames ID
361612Wikidata ID
Q204439El Alamein Satellite Map
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Also Known As
- Afrikaans: Alamein
- Albanian: El Alamejn
- Arabic: العلمين
- Arabic: علمين
- Asturian: El Alamein
- Azerbaijani: Əl-Ələmeyn
- Azerbaijani: əl-Ələmeyn
- Basque: El-Alamein
- Bengali: এল আলামেইন
- Breton: El Alamein
- Bulgarian: Аламейн
- Bulgarian: Ел Аламейн
- Catalan: Alamein
- Catalan: El Alamein
- Cebuano: Al ‘Alamayn
- Chinese: 阿拉曼
- Chinese: 阿莱曼
- Chinese: 阿萊曼
- Croatian: El Alamein
- Czech: El Alamein
- Czech: El Alamejn
- Danish: El-Alamein
- Danish: El Alamein
- Dutch: Al alamein
- Dutch: El-Alamein
- Dutch: El Alamein
- Egyptian Arabic: العلمين
- English: Alamein
- Esperanto: El Alamein
- Estonian: Al-'Alamayn
- Estonian: Al-Alamayn
- Estonian: Al-‘Alamayn
- Estonian: Alamein
- Estonian: El-Alamein
- Estonian: El Alamein
- Finnish: Al Alamayn
- Finnish: El Alamein
- French: El-Alamein
- French: El Alamein
- Georgian: ელ-ალამაინი
- Georgian: ელ ალამეინი
- German: Alamein
- German: El-Alamein
- German: El Alamein
- German: ʿAlamein
- Greek: El Alamein
- Greek: Ελ Αλαμέιν
- Gujarati: અલ અલમેઈન
- Hebrew: אל-עלמיין
- Hindi: एल आलामीन
- Hungarian: El Alamein
- Indonesian: 'Alamain
- Indonesian: Al-'Alamain
- Indonesian: Alamain
- Indonesian: El Alamein
- Irish: El Alamein
- Italian: El-Alamein
- Italian: El Alamein
- Japanese: エルアラメイン
- Japanese: エル・アラメイン
- Javanese: El Alamein
- Kannada: ಎಲ್ ಆಲಮೇನ್
- Korean: 엘 알라메인
- Latvian: El Alameina
- Lithuanian: El Alameinas
- Malay: El Alamein
- Maori: Arameina
- Marathi: एल अलॅमीन
- Norwegian: El Alamein
- Norwegian Bokmål: El Alamein
- Persian: العالمین
- Persian: العلمین
- Polish: Al-Alamajn
- Polish: El-Alamejn
- Polish: El Alamein
- Polish: El Alamejn
- Portuguese: El Alamein
- Romanian: El Alamein
- Russian: Аламейн
- Russian: Эль-Аламейн
- Sardinian: El Alamein
- Serbian: El Alamejn
- Serbian: Ел Аламеин
- Serbian: Ел Аламејн
- Serbo-Croatian: El-Alamein
- Serbo-Croatian: El Alamein
- Serbo-Croatian: El Alamejn
- Sinhala: එල් අලමින්
- Slovak: Al-Alamajn
- Slovak: Al-Alamejn
- Slovak: Alamein
- Slovak: Alamejn
- Slovak: El-Alamein
- Slovak: El-Alamejn
- Slovak: El-Alamén
- Slovenian: El Alamein
- South Azerbaijani: العلمین
- Spanish: Al Alamayn
- Spanish: Batalla de el-Alamein
- Spanish: Batalla de el Alamein
- Spanish: El-Alamein
- Spanish: El Alamein
- Swedish: El-Alamein
- Swedish: El Alamein
- Tajik: Ал-Аламайн
- Tamil: எல் ஆலமீன்
- Telugu: ఎల్ అలమేయిన్
- Thai: อัลอะละมัยน์
- Turkish: Alameyn
- Turkish: El-Alameyn
- Turkish: El Alamein
- Turkish: El Alameyn
- Ukrainian: Ель-Аламейн
- Urdu: العالمین
- Vietnamese: El Alamein
- Zulu: El Alamein
- Al `Alamayn
- El-‘Alamên
- El ‘Alamein
Other Places Named El Alamein
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