Sidi Barrani

Sidi Barrani is a town in Egypt near the Mediterranean Sea, about 95 km east of the Egypt-Libya border and around 240 km from Tobruk in Libya. It is named after Sidi es-Saadi el Barrani, a Senussi sheikh who headed its Zawiya, and the village is mainly a Bedouin community. It has food, gasoline outlets and one small hotel, almost no tourist activity, and an Egyptian Air Force base. The town is often mentioned in historical records to mark the limit of the initial Italian invasion of Egypt from Libya, and the Battle of Sidi Barrani in December 1940 saw British troops defeat a much larger Italian force. Its climate is classified as hot desert (BWh) under the Koppen-Geiger system.