Suez

The city's name is derived from a fuʿayl form of the Arabic word for 'liquorice' (Arabic: سُوس, romanized: sūs).

Darius the Great's Suez Inscriptions were texts written in Old Persian, Elamite, Babylonian and Egyptian on five monuments erected in Wadi Tumilat, commemorating the opening of a canal between the Nile and the Bitter Lakes, to facilitate a shipping connection between Egypt, then a satrapy of the Achaemenid Empire, and Persia (i.e. the greater portion of the Empire itself). …

The Isthmus of Suez is considered the boundary between Africa and Asia. Köppen-Geiger climate classification system classifies its climate as a hot desert (BWh). The hottest recorded temperature was 49 °C (120 °F) on June 14, 1965 while the coldest recorded temperature was 1 °C (34 °F) on February 23, 2004.

Ismail Yassine (1912-1972), singer, comedian and actor Ebrahim Nafae (1934–2018), journalist and a former editor-in-chief of Al-Ahram Newspaper. Abdel Latif Moubarak (born 1964), poet Youssef Maaty (born 1963), playwright