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Place details
- Locality
- العين السخنة
- Region
- السويس
- Country
- مصر
- Population
- 45,552
- Timezone
- Africa/Cairo
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Key facts
- Country
- Egypt
- Governorate
- Suez
- Total
- 45,552
- Time zone
- UTC+2 ( EST )
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- resort town
- Country
- Egypt
- Located in
- Suez Governorate
- Elevation
- 8
- Time zone
- UTC+02:00
- Image
- Ain sokhna porto.jpg
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- Ain Sukhna
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Encyclopedic overview
Al-'Ain al-Sokhna (Arabic: العين السخنة, romanized: al-ʿAyn as-Sukhna Egyptian Arabic pronunciation: [elˈʕeːn esˈsoxnæ], "the Hot Spring") is a town in the Suez Governorate, lying on the western shore of the Red Sea's Gulf of Suez. It is situated 55 kilometres (34 mi) south of Suez and approximately 120 kilometres (75 mi) east of Cairo.
History
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Ain Sokhna” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.