Sharm el-Sheikh
Sharm el-Sheikh is a large resort at the south tip of the Sinai Peninsula in Egypt. The main reasons to visit are for scuba-diving and other water and beach activities, and to explore the Sinai desert.Photo: Svetlana Grechkina, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Sharm el-Sheikh
- Type: City with 38,500 residents
- Description: city in South Sinai, Egypt
- Categories: resort town, kism and locality
- Location: South Sinai, Sinai, Egypt, North Africa, Africa
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Latitude
27.8644° or 27° 51' 52" northLongitude
34.2954° or 34° 17' 44" eastPopulation
38,500Elevation
11 metres (36 feet)IATA airport code
SSHUnited Nations Location Code
EG SSHOpen Location Code
7GVPV77W+Q5OpenStreetMap ID
node 428339450OpenStreetMap Feature
place=cityGeoNames ID
349340Wikidata ID
Q644Sharm el-Sheikh Satellite Map
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Also Known As
- Arabic (Historic): Awfīr
- Arabic: شرم الشيخ
- Armenian: Շարմ էլ Շեյխ
- Asturian: Sharm el-Sheij
- Avaric: Шарам аш-Шайх
- Azerbaijani: Şərm əş-Şeyx
- Bashkir: Шәрм-әш-Шәйех
- Basque: Xarm el-Xeikh
- Bengali: শর্ম এল-শেইখ
- Bulgarian: Шарм ел-Шейх
- Bulgarian: Шарм еш-Шейх
- Catalan: Xarm al xeic
- Catalan: Xarm el-Xeikh
- Cebuano: Sharm ash Shaykh
- Central Kurdish: شەرم ئەش-شەیخ
- Central Kurdish: شەرم ئەلشەیخ
- Chechen: Шарм-эш-Шейх
- Chinese: 沙姆沙伊赫
- Croatian: Sharm el-Sheikh
- Czech: Šarm aš-Šajch
- Czech: Šarm aš Šajch
- Danish: Sharm el-Sheikh
- Dutch: Sharm-el-Sheikh
- Dutch: Sharm El Sheikh
- Dutch: Sharm el-Sheikh
- Eastern Mari: Шарм-эль-Шейх
- Egyptian Arabic: شرم الشيخ
- English: Sharm
- English: Sharm Ash Sheikh
- English: Sharm El Sheikh
- English: Sharm el Sheikh
- Esperanto: Ŝarm el Ŝeiĥ
- Esperanto: Ŝarm el Ŝejĥ
- Estonian: Sharm ash-Shaykh
- Estonian: Sharm el Sheikh
- Finnish: Sharm El Sheikh
- Finnish: Šarm al-Šaikh
- French: Charm El Cheikh
- French: Charm el-Cheikh
- Georgian: შარმ-ელ-შეიხი
- German: Scharm El Scheich
- German: Scharm asch-Schaich
- German: Scharm el-Scheich
- German: Scharm esch-Scheich
- German: Sharm el Sheikh
- Greek: Σαρμ ελ-Σείχ
- Greek: Σαρμ ελ Σέιχ
- Greek: Σαρμ ελ Σεΐχ
- Gujarati: શર્મ અલ-શેખ
- Hebrew: שארם א-שייח'
- Hindi: शर्म अल शेख
- Hindi: शर्म अल शेख़
- Hungarian: Sarm es-Sejk
- Hungarian: Sarm es Sejk
- Ido: Sharm el-Sheik
- Igbo: Sharm
- Igbo: Sharma el-Sheikh
- Indonesian: Sharm el-Sheikh
- Irish: Sharm el-Sheikh
- Italian: Sharm el-Sheikh
- Japanese: シャルム
- Japanese: シャルム・エル・シェイク
- Kannada: ಶರ್ಮ್-ಅಲ್-ಶೈಖ್
- Kannada: ಶರ್ಮ್ ಎಲ್-ಶೇಖ್
- Kazakh: Шарм-эш-Шейх қаласы
- Korean: 샤름엘셰이크
- Kölsch: Scharm-Äl-Schäisch
- Kölsch: Scharm-Äl-Schäsch
- Kölsch: Scharmälscheisch
- Kölsch: Scharmälschäsch
- Latvian: Šarm eš Šeiha
- Lithuanian: Šarm El Šeichas
- Lithuanian: Šarm el Šeichas
- Macedonian: Шарм ел-Шеик
- Malay: Sharm
- Malay: Sharm el-Sheikh
- Malay: Syarm
- Malay: Syarm al-Syeikh
- Malay: شرم الشيخ
- Marathi: शर्म अल-शेख
- Mingrelian: შარმ-ელ-შეიხი
- Moksha: Шарм эль Шэйх
- Nepali: सर्म अल-सेख
- Norwegian: Sharm el-Sheikh
- Norwegian: Sharm el Sheikh
- Norwegian Bokmål: Sharm el-Sheikh
- Norwegian Nynorsk: Sharm el-Sheikh
- Occitan (post 1500): Charm el-Cheikh
- Persian: شرمالشیخ
- Polish: Szarm El Szejk
- Polish: Szarm el-Szejk
- Portuguese: Sharm
- Portuguese: Sharm El Sheikh
- Portuguese: Sharm el-Sheikh
- Portuguese: Xarm el-Xeikh
- Romanian: Sharm el-Sheih
- Romanian: Sharm el-Sheikh
- Russian: Шарм-аш-Шейх
- Russian: Шарм-эль-Шейх
- Russian: Шарм-эль-шейх
- Russian: Шарм-эш-Шейх
- Russian: Шарм эл шейх
- Russian: Шарм эль шейх
- Russian: Шарм эш Шейх
- Sardinian: Sharm el-Sheikh
- Scots: Sharm el-Sheikh
- Serbian: Шарм ел Шеик
- Serbo-Croatian: Šarm el Šeik
- Sinhala: ශාර්ම් එල් ශීක්
- Slovak: Šarm aš-Šajch
- Slovenian: Šarm el Šejk
- Spanish: Sharm El Sheij
- Spanish: Sharm el-Sheij
- Swedish: Sharm el-Sheikh
- Swedish: Sharm el Sheikh
- Tajik: Шарм-аш-Шайх
- Tamil: சார்ம் எல்-செயிக்
- Tamil: ஷாரம் எல் - ஷேக்
- Telugu: షర్మ్ ఎల్-షేక్
- Thai: ชาร์ม เอล-ชีค
- Turkish: Şarm El-Şeyh
- Turkish: Şarm eş-Şeyh
- Ukrainian: Шарм-аш-Шейх
- Ukrainian: Шарм-еш-Шейх
- Urdu: شرم الشیخ
- Uzbek: Sharm al-Shayx
- Vietnamese: Sharm el-Sheikh
- Western Panjabi: شرم الشیخ
- Wu Chinese: 沙姆沙伊赫
- Yiddish: שארם אל שייך
- Yue Chinese: 沙姆沙伊赫
- Zeeuws: Sharm el-Sheikh
- Zulu: Sharm El Sheikh
- Historic: Ofira
- Historic: Ophira
- Cherm
- Ras Muhammad
- Ras Umm Sidd
- Sharm al Shaikh
- Sharm ash Shaykh, Sharm al Shaykh
- Sharm esh Sheikh
- Sherm el Sheik
- Sherm el Sheikh
- Sherm el Shekh
Other Places Named Sharm el-Sheikh
In the Area
Sharm el-Sheikh is situated close to the neighbourhood Old Al Souq and the suburb Hadaba.
- Old SharmSuburb
- 54 Unit HousingNeighbourhood
- Al Nour DistrictNeighbourhood
- Al Nour District Premium HousingNeighbourhood
- Al Nour District HousingNeighbourhood
- Old Al Nour District villasNeighbourhood
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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 Wikivoyage page Sharm el-Sheikh. Photo: Svetlana Grechkina, CC BY-SA 2.0.