Suez

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Suez

Total population

488,125

Coordinates29.97°, 32.54°

Demographic figures from CAPMAS (Egypt). Overview below cites Wikipedia and may reference a different year.

Overview

Suez is a seaport city in north-eastern Egypt, located on the north coast of the Gulf of Suez on the Red Sea, near the southern terminus of the Suez Canal. The city is the capital and largest city of the Suez Governorate. The modern city of Suez is a successor of the ancient Egyptian city of Clysma, a major Red Sea port and a center of monasticism.

Geography

Coordinates & boundaries from the US Census TIGER/Line shapefiles.

Notable people from here

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Mar Awgin

Egyptian saint

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Mohamed Abdelfatah

wrestler

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Khaled El-Amin

Egyptian association football player

Magdy Ishak

Egyptian surgeon

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Hussein Kamal

Egyptian television, film and theatre director (1932-2003)

Esmaeil Yasin

Egyptian actor (1912–1972)

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Abdou Omar

Egyptian amateur wrestler

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Ahmed Elmaghraby

American field hockey player

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Amina Zaydan

Egyptian novelist and short story writer

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Assaad Taha

Egyptian journalist

Ekramy El-Shahat

Egyptian association football player

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Ibrahim Farag

Olympic wrestler

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Lucilla Andrews

British writer

Sumi Helal

computer scientist

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Mohamed Gouda

Egyptian footballer (born 1979)

Abdel Latif Moubarak

Egyptian poet

People born within ~10 km, from Wikidata (CC0). Click any name for their Wikipedia article.

Nearby places in Suez

• Al Shalufa
  5.6 mi away
• Muhammad al Askari
  5.7 mi away
• Al Adabiyah
  7 mi away
• Abu Sial
  8.1 mi away
• Bastat al Ajrud
  10.5 mi away
• Sand Beach
  17.2 mi away
• El Ain Bay Resort
  19.1 mi away
• Little Venice Golf Resort and Hotel
  19.6 mi away
• Marina Wadi Degla Resort
  19.8 mi away
• Ain Sokhna
  27 mi away · pop. 45,552

Browse all places in Suez →

Geography & sun

Elevation, sunrise/sunset and daylight from Open-Meteo. Solar climatology from NASA POWER.

Public attention

Pageview totals from the Wikimedia Pageviews API.

Books about Suez

LA SOLMISACIÓN

SAMIR MARGE SUEZ SUEZ · 2014

The Crossing of the Suez

Saad el-Shazly · 1980

Suez

Keith Kyle · 1991

Parting the desert

Zachary Karabell · 2003

The Suez crisis, 1956

Gerald Kurland · 1968

Suez to Singapore

Brown, Cecil · 1942

The Suez-Sinai Crisis

Moshe Shemesh · 1990

Into Suez

Stevie Davies · 2010

Search results from Open Library.

Recently spotted species

Common Myna

Acridotheres tristis

Seen 2026-06-28

Domestic Cat

Felis catus

Seen 2026-06-17

Gray’s Spinner Dolphin

Stenella longirostris longirostris

Seen 2026-03-31

Vine Hawkmoth

Hippotion celerio

Seen 2025-04-30

Steppe Eagle

Aquila nipalensis

Seen 2024-03-09

House Crow

Corvus splendens

Seen 2023-11-12

Feral Pigeon

Columba livia domestica

Seen 2022-06-11

Sweet basil

Ocimum basilicum

Seen 2020-05-30

umbrella thorn

Vachellia tortilis

Seen 2019-08-21

Research-grade observations from iNaturalist (within ~15 mi).