Port Said
Query URLs
https://term.museum-digital.de/md-de/place/20563
- Note
- "Port Said (Arabic: بورسعيد‎ Bur Sa´īd) is a city that lies in north east Egypt extending about 30 kilometres (19 mi) along the coast of the Mediterranean Sea, north of the Suez Canal, with an approximate population of 603,787 (2010). The city was established in 1859 during the building of the Suez Canal.
There are numerous old houses with grand balconies on all floors, giving the city a distinctive look. Port Said´s twin city is Port Fuad, which lies on the eastern bank of the canal. The two cities coexist, to the extent that there is hardly any town centre in Port Fuad. The cities are connected by free ferries running all through the day, and together they form a metropolitan area with over a million residents that extends both on the African and the Asian sides of the Suez Canal. The only other metropolitan area in the world that also spans two continents is Istanbul." - (en.wikipedia.org 21.10.2019) - Latitude
- 31.25
- Longitude
- 32.283332824707
- Inhabitants
- 538,378
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