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Place details
- Locality
- سيدي البراني
- Region
- مطروح
- Country
- مصر
- Population
- 38,253
- Timezone
- Africa/Cairo
via OpenStreetMap · GeoNames
Key facts
- Country
- Egypt
- Governorate
- Matruh
- Total
- 1,000 sq mi (2,589 km )
- Elevation
- 43 ft (13 m)
- Density
- 63.12/sq mi (24.37/km )
- Time zone
- UTC+2 ( EET )
- Summer dst
- UTC+3 ( EEST )
via Wikipedia infobox
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Encyclopedic overview
Sidi Barrani (Arabic: سيدي براني pronounced [ˈsiːdi bɑɾˈɾɑːni]) is a town in Egypt, near the Mediterranean Sea, about 95 km (59 mi) east of the Egypt–Libya border, and around 240 km (150 mi) from Tobruk, Libya.
Named after Sidi es-Saadi el Barrani, a Senussi sheikh who was a head of its Zawiya, the village is mainly a Bedouin community. It has food, gasoline outlets and one small hotel, but virtually no tourist activity or visited historical curiosities. It is the site of an Egyptian Air Force base.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Sidi Barrani” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.