El Quseir
26°06′14″N 34°16′52″E / 26.10389°N 34.28111°E Map c.1800El Qoseir is a city in eastern Egypt, located on the Red Sea west coast. Populated for approximately 5,000 years, its ancient Egyptian name was Tjau, while its ancient Greek name during the Ptolemaic era was Myos Hormos.Photo: Nikswieweg, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 3.0.
El Quseir
- Type: City with 24,300 residents
- Description: city in Red Sea, Egypt
- Categories: port settlement, resort town, archaeological site, kism and locality
- Location: Red Sea, Red Sea Coast, Egypt, North Africa, Africa
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Latitude
26.1048° or 26° 6' 17" northLongitude
34.2798° or 34° 16' 47" eastPopulation
24,300Elevation
23 metres (75 feet)United Nations Location Code
EG AQUOpen Location Code
7GRP473H+WWOpenStreetMap ID
node 27136155OpenStreetMap Feature
place=cityGeoNames ID
360531Wikidata ID
Q310751El Quseir Satellite Map
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Also Known As
- Arabic: القصير
- Arabic: القُصْير
- Armenian: Էլ-Քուսեյր
- Asturian: El-Quseir
- Belarusian: Кусейр
- Belarusian: Эль-Кусейр
- Cebuano: Al Quşayr
- Czech: Quseir
- Dutch: El Quseir
- Egyptian Arabic: القصير
- Egyptian Arabic: مدينة القصير
- English: Al-Qusayr, Egypt
- English: El-Quseir
- English: El Qoseir
- English: Leucus Limen
- French: Al-Qusair
- French: Al Qusair
- German: Al-Qusair
- German: Al-Quṣayr
- German: Al Qusayr
- German: El-Qusair
- German: El-Quseir
- German: El Quseir
- German: Kosseir
- German: Qseir
- German: Quseir
- German: Quṣeir
- German: Tjaou
- German: Tjau
- German: Tschaou
- Greek: Αλ Κουσαΐρ
- Hebrew: קוסייר
- Hindi: अल क़ोसियर
- Hungarian: Kuszeir
- Italian: El Quseir
- Italian: Kosseir
- Italian: Quseir
- Japanese: アル＝クサイル
- Japanese: 紅海
- Kazakh: Élʹ-Kwseýr qalası
- Kazakh: Эль-Кусейр қаласы
- Kazakh: ەل-كۋسەير قالاسى
- Persian: القصیر
- Persian: قصیر (استان بحر الاحمر)
- Persian: قصیر
- Polish: Al-Kusajr
- Russian: Аль-Кусайра
- Russian: Кусейр
- Russian: Эль-Кусейр
- Russian: Эль Кусейр
- Scots: Al-Qusair
- Scots: Al Qusayr
- Serbo-Croatian: El Kusejr
- South Azerbaijani: القصیر
- Spanish: El-Qoseir
- Spanish: El-Quseir
- Spanish: El Qoseir
- Spanish: El Quseir
- Swedish: El Quseir, Egypten
- Swedish: El Quseir
- Ukrainian: Кусейр
- Ukrainian: Эль Кусейр
- Zulu: El Qoseir
- Koseir
- Qosier
- Qosseir
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About Mapcarta. Thanks to Mapbox for providing amazing maps. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License. Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, excluding photos, directions and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipdia page El Quseir. Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 3.0.