El Alamein

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El Alamein العلمين al-ʿAlamayn
City
Clockwise from top: Marina's Porto Resort, The German Memorial, Alamein Port, Armen Agop Structure at Alamein Hotel, Alamein Military Museum, Sunset on Alamein's Beaches, Marina Alamein Arch Site Tomb Superstructures
El Alamein Location in Egypt
Coordinates: 30°50′N 28°57′E / 30.833°N 28.950°E / 30.833; 28.950
Country	Egypt
Governorate	Matrouh
Population  (2007)
• Total	7,397[citation needed]
• Estimate  (2017)	10,013
Time zone	UTC+2 (EET)

El Alamein (Arabic: العلمين, romanized: al-ʿAlamayn, lit. 'the two flags', IPA: [elʕælæˈmeːn] ^ⓘ) is a town in the northern Matrouh Governorate of Egypt. Located on the Mediterranean Sea, it lies 106 kilometres (66 mi) west of Alexandria and 300 kilometres (186 mi) northwest of Cairo.

The town is located on the site of the ancient city Antiphrai (Greek: Ἀντίφραι).^[1]