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Dahab
Sign in to saveDahab (, ) is a small town on the southeast coast of the Sinai Peninsula in Egypt, approximately northeast of Sharm el-Sheikh.
Key facts
- Settlement.name
- Dahab
- Settlement.settlement_type
- coastal town
- Settlement.mapsize
- Location map Egypt South Sinai
- Settlement.pushpin_map
- Egypt Sinai
- Settlement.pushpin_label_position
- bottom
- Settlement.pushpin_map_caption
- Location in Egypt's Sinai Peninsula
- Settlement.subdivision_type
- Country
- Settlement.subdivision_type1
- Governorate
- Settlement.subdivision_name1
- South Sinai
- Settlement.unit_pref
- Metric
- Settlement.area_total_km2
- 1,083
- Settlement.population_as_of
- 2023
- Settlement.population_total
- 3,169
- Settlement.population_density_km2
- auto
- Settlement.population_density_sq_mi
- auto
- Settlement.population_density_metro_km2
- auto
- Settlement.population_density_metro_sq_mi
- auto
- Settlement.population_blank1_title
- Ethnicities
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- resort town
- Official name
- دهب
- Country
- Egypt
- Located in
- South Sinai Governorate
- Population
- 4479
- Elevation
- 21
- Time zone
- Egypt Standard Time
- Body of water
- Gulf of Aqaba
- Image
- Dahab evening 01.JPG
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- Dahab
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- دهب
- native label
- Dahab
- heritage designation
- Tentative World Heritage Site
- postal code
- 46617
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Encyclopedic overview
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- Tourism
- Geography
- Landscape
- Climate
- See also
- References
- External links
Dahab (, ) is a small town on the southeast coast of the Sinai Peninsula in Egypt, approximately northeast of Sharm el-Sheikh.
Dahab can be divided into three major parts. Masbat, which includes the Bedouin village of Asalah, in the north; Mashraba, south of Masbat, and Medina in the southwest. Dahab is mentioned in Deuteronomy as (dî zāhāḇ), and in the Septuagint translation as Καταχρύσεα. Gesenius exegetes as, “I have no doubt but that it is the same place as that now called Dehab on the western shore of the Ælanitic gulf, where there are many palms.” Dahab is known as the "diving capital" of South Sinai, and one of the most famous diving destinations in the world, thanks to a number of unique sites that suit all levels of diving enthusiasts.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Dahab” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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