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Mountain · Egypt

Jabal Umm Shūmar

Elevation
2,578 m
#5,948
in the world
#4
in Egypt

Jabal Umm Shūmar is a mountain in Egypt, rising to 2,578 m, the 4th highest in Egypt.

Elevation
2,578 m
Surveyed elevation, GeoNames
World rank
#5,948
of 14,627 listed

Where it is

Jabal Umm Shūmar

Jabal Umm Shūmar lies in Egypt, in South Sinai.

Key facts

Elevation
2,578 m
Surveyed elevation, GeoNames
Type
Mountain
Region
South Sinai
Coordinates
28.361, 33.917

How it ranks

Among peaks in Egypt
#4of 26
LargestSmallest
Among all listed peaks
#5,948of 14,627
LargestSmallest

Nearest peaks

PeakElevationDistance
Jabal Abū Shajarah2,343 m2.4 km
Jabal Rimḩān2,413 m3.6 km
Jabal al Khalā2,543 m10 km
Jabal al Li‘dah2,455 m10 km
Jabal al Azraq2,297 m12 km
Jabal Shaykh al ‘Arab2,193 m12 km

Nearest cities

The closest places in our city dataset to Jabal Umm Shūmar.

CityCountryPopulationDistance
El-TorEgypt38,28532 km
Sharm el-SheikhEgypt38,47864 km
Ras GharibEgypt44,85282 km
HurghadaEgypt207,132123 km
ḨaqlSaudi Arabia25,649144 km

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Elevation and coordinates from GeoNames; prominence, isolation, range and first-ascent data from Wikidata. GeoNames publishes no date for elevation figures, so none is shown.