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Egypt
Egypt (pronounced /ˈiːdʒɪpt/ ( listen); Arabic: مصر Miṣr, pronounced [misˤɾ] ( listen); Egyptian Arabic: Maṣr [ˈmɑsˤɾ]; Coptic: Ⲭⲏⲙⲓ, kīmi; Egyptian: Kemet), officially the Arab Republic of Egypt, is a country mainly in North Africa, with the Sinai Peninsula forming a land bridge in Southwest...
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Aswan
Aswan or Aswanl, formerly spelled Assuan, (Arabic: أسوان, Aswān; Ancient Egyptian: Swenet, "Trade"; Coptic: ⲥⲟⲩⲁⲛ, Swān; Ancient Greek: Συήνη, Syene) is a city in the south of Egypt, the capital of the Aswan Governorate.
It stands on the east bank...
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Alexandria
Alexandria (Arabic: الإسكندرية al-Iskandariyya; Coptic: Ⲣⲁⲕⲟⲧⲉ Rakotə; Greek: Ἀλεξάνδρεια; Egyptian Arabic: اسكندريه Eskendereyya), with a population of 4.1 million, is the second-largest city in Egypt, and is the country's largest seaport, serving...
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- 2,679 km² (1034 mi² )
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Cairo
Cairo (Arabic: القاهرة al-Qāhira) is a megacity and a global city serving as the capital of Egypt. It is the largest city in Africa,Mediterranean Countries and North Africa. Nicknamed "The City of a Thousand Minarets" for its preponderance of...
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- 214 km² (82.6 mi² )
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Nile
The Nile (Arabic: النيل, an-nīl, Ancient Egyptian iteru or Ḥ'pī, Coptic piaro or phiaro) is a major north-flowing river in Africa, generally regarded as the longest river in the world.
The Nile has two major tributaries, the White Nile and Blue...
Nag Hammâdi
Nag Hammadi (Arabic نجع حمادي), is a city in Upper Egypt. Nag Hammadi was known as Chenoboskion (Greek Χηνοβόσκιον) in classical antiquity, meaning "geese grazing grounds". It is located on the west bank of the Nile in the Qena Governorate, about 80...
Sinai Peninsula
The Sinai Peninsula or Sinai (sina; Egyptian Arabic: سينا sina; Arabic: سيناء sina'a; is a triangular peninsula in Egypt. It lies between the Mediterranean Sea to the north and the Red Sea to the south, forming a land bridge between Africa and...
El Alamein
El Alamein (or Al Alamayn) (Arabic: العلمين, which means "the two flags") is a town in northern Egypt on the Mediterranean Sea coast in Matruh Governorate. It is 106 kilometres (66 mi) west of Alexandria and 240 kilometres (149 mi) northwest of...
Abu Qir
Abū Qīr (Arabic أبو قير) (also Abukir or Aboukir) is a village on the Mediterranean coast of Egypt, 23 kilometers (14.5 miles) northeast of Alexandria by rail, containing a castle used as a state prison by Muhammad Ali of Egypt.
The name Abū Qīr is...
Mount Sinai
Mount Sinai (Arabic: طور سيناء ,toor sinaa'i) (Hebrew: הר סיני ,har sina'i), also known as Mount Horeb, Mount Musa, Gabal Musa (Egyptian Arabic accent), Jabal Musa (standard Arabic meaning "Moses' Mountain") by the Bedouin, is the name of a mountain...
Thebes
Thebes (Θῆβαι, Thēbai, Arabic: طيبة, Ṭībah) is the Greek name for a city in Ancient Egypt located about 800 km south of the Mediterranean, on the east bank of the river Nile (25°42′00″N 32°38′42″E / 25.7°N 32.645°E / 25.7; 32.645). It was...
Tahapanes
Tahapanes (also transliterated Tahpanhes, or Tehaphnehes; called "Daphne" by the Greeks, now Tell Defenneh), is an ancient Egypt city located on the Tanitic branch of the Nile, about 16.3 miles from Pelusium. The Jews from Jerusalem fled to this...
Zagazig
Zagazig (Zakazik, Arabic الزقازيق az-Zaqāzīq; colloquial IPA: [zaʔaziːʔ] or IPA: [zaɡaziːɡ]), is a town of Lower Egypt, in the eastern part of the Nile delta, and is the capital of the province of Sharqia Governorate.
As of 1999, its population was...
Amarna
The site of Amarna (commonly known as el-Amarna or incorrectly as Tel el-Amarna; see below) (Arabic: العمارنة al-‘amārnah) is located on the east bank of the Nile River in the modern Egyptian province of Minya, some 58 km (38 miles) south of the...
Memphis
Memphis (Arabic: منف) was the ancient capital of the first nome of Lower Egypt, and of the Old Kingdom of Egypt from its foundation until around 2200 BC and later for shorter periods during the New Kingdom, and an administrative centre throughout...
Heliopolis
Heliopolis (or On) (Greek: Ἡλίου πόλις or Ἡλιούπολις), meaning sun-city, was one of the most ancient cities of Egypt, and capital of the 13th Lower Egyptian nome. Its name also refers to an unrelated modern suburb of Cairo, also known as مصر الجديدة...
Buto
Buto (Greek: Βουτώ, Boutō), Butus (Greek: Βοῦτος, Boutos), or Butosus was an ancient city located 95 km east of Alexandria in the Nile Delta of Egypt. The city stood on the Sebennytic arm of the Nile, near its mouth, and on the southern shore of the...
Mendes
Mendes (Μένδης), the Greek name of the Ancient Egyptian city of Djedet, also known in Ancient Egypt as Per-Banebdjedet ("The Domain of the Ram Lord of Djedet") and Anpet, is known today as Tell El-Ruba (Arabic: تل الربع).
The city is located in the...
El-Mahalla El-Kubra
El-Mahalla El-Kubra (Arabic: المحلة الكبرى) is a large industrial and agricultural city in Egypt, located in the middle of the Nile Delta on the western bank of the Damietta branch. It is known for its dominant textile industry. It is the largest...
Kom Ombo
Kom Ombo (كوم أمبو) (Coptic: ⲉⲙⲃⲱ Embo; Greek: Ὄμβοι Omboi, Ptol. iv. 5. § 73; Steph. B. s. v.; It. Anton. p. 165) or Ombos (Juv. xv. 35) or Latin: Ambo (Not. Imp. sect. 20) and Ombi – is an agricultural town in Egypt famous for the Temple of Kom...
Giza
Giza or Gizah (Arabic: الجيزة, transliterated el-Gīzah) is the third largest city in Egypt. Being located on the west bank of the Nile river, some 20 km southwest of central Cairo. Along with Shubra El-Kheima, Cairo and Helwan, the 4 cities form...
Karnak
The very old Karnak Temple Complex — usually called simply Karnak — comprises a vast conglomeration of ruined temples, chapels, pylons and other buildings, notably the Great Temple of Amen and a massive structure begun by Pharaoh Amenhotep III (ca....
Luxor
Luxor (in Arabic: الأقصر al-Uqṣur) is a city in Upper (southern) Egypt and the capital of Luxor Governorate. The population numbers 376,022 (1999 survey), with an area of approximately 416 square kilometres (161 sq mi) . As the site of the ancient...
Area:
- 416 km² (161 mi² )
Tanis
Tanis (Τάνις), the Greek name of ancient Djanet (modern صان الحجر Ṣān al-Ḥaǧar), is a city in the north-eastern Nile delta of Egypt. It is located on the Tanitic branch of the Nile which has long since silted up.
Tanis was founded in the late...
Taba
Taba (Arabic: طابا) is a small Egyptian town near the northern tip of the Gulf of Aqaba. Taba is the location of Egypt's busiest border crossing with neighboring Israel. Little more than a bus depot and a luxury hotel (complete with casino), Taba...
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Siwa Oasis
The Siwa Oasis (Arabic: واحة سيوة Wāḥat Sīwah, from Berber Siwa "prey bird; protector of the sun god Amon-Ra") is an oasis in Egypt, located between the Qattara Depression and the Egyptian Sand Sea in the Libyan Desert, nearly 50 km (30 mi) east of...
Marsa Matruh
Mersa Matruh (Arabic مرسى مطروح [Marsā Maṭrūḥ]) During Ancient Egyptian times and Alexander The Great reign the city was known as Amunia. Then, (known in Ptolemaic and Byzantine times as Paraitonion (Παραιτόνιον) and in Roman times as Paraetonium)...
Sidi Barrani
Sidi Barrani (Arabic: سيدي برّاني) is a village in Egypt, near the Mediterranean Sea, about 95 km (59 miles) east of the border with Libya, and around 240 km (149 miles) from Tobruk.
Sidi Barrani named probably after Sidi Mohammed el Barrani, a...
Port Said
Port Said (Arabic بورسعيد transliterated Būr Saʻīd) is a northeastern Egyptian city near the Suez Canal, with an approximate population of 515,007 (2001).
The economic base of Port Said is fishing and industries, like chemicals, processed food, and...
Suez
Suez (Arabic: السويس as-Suways) is a seaport town (population ca. 497,000) in north-eastern Egypt, located on the north coast of the Gulf of Suez, near the southern terminus of the Suez Canal, having the same boundaries as Suez governorate. It has...
Gulf of Suez
The northern end of the Red Sea is bifurcated by the Sinai Peninsula, creating the Gulf of Suez (Arabic: خليج السويس; transliterated: Khalīǧ as-Suwais) in the west and the Gulf of Aqaba to the east. The Gulf of Suez is formed within a relatively...
Rosetta
Rosetta (Arabic: رشيد Rashid) is a port city on the Mediterranean coast in Egypt. It is located 65 km (40 miles) east of Alexandria, in al-Buhayrah governorate. It was founded around AD 800.
With the decline of Alexandria following the Ottoman...
Damietta
Damietta, Damiata, or Domyat (Arabic: دمياط) is a port and the capital of the governorate of Domyat, Egypt. It is located at the intersection between the Mediterranean Sea and the Nile, about 200 kilometres (120 mi) north of Cairo.
In Ancient Egypt...
Al Qahirah Governorate
Cairo Governorate (Arabic: القاهرة) is one of the governorates of Egypt. Its capital is the national capital of Cairo of which it is coterminous with. Because it is completely urbanized, the governorate is considered a city proper, and functions as...
Area:
- 3,435.3 km² (1326.4 mi² )
Sharm el-Sheikh
Sharm el-Sheikh (Arabic: شرم الشيخ, Sharm al-Shaykh), is a city situated on the southern tip of the Sinai Peninsula, in South Sinai Governorate, Egypt, on the coastal strip between the Red Sea and Mount Sinai with a population of approximately 35...
Al Jizah Governorate
Giza Governorate (Arabic: الجيزة) is one of the governorates of Egypt. It is in the center of the country. Its capital is the city of Giza.
Area:
- 85,153 km² (32878 mi² )
Al Mansurah
El Mansoura (Arabic: المنصورة, al-manṣūrah) is a city in Egypt, with a population of 420,000. It is the capital of the Dakahlia Governorate.
Mansoura means 'The Victorious (city)'. The city is named after the Egyptian victory in the battle of...
Ismaïlia
Ismaïlia (Arabic: الإسماعيلية) is the capital of Egypt's Al Isma'iliyah Governorate. It has a population (including surrounding rural areas) of approximately 750,000. It is located on the west bank of the Suez Canal, approximately half way between...
Damanhur
Damanhur (Egyptian: Dmỉ-n-Ḥr.w ("Village of Horus"); Coptic: Ⲧⲙⲉⲛϩⲱⲣ; Arabic: دمنهور) or Hermopolis Mikra (Greek: Ἑρμοῦ πόλις μικρά) is a city in Lower Egypt, and the capital of the Beheira Governorate. It is located 160 km northwest of Cairo, and...
Ad Daqahliyah
Dakahlia governorate (Arabic: الدقهلية) is an Egyptian governorate lying northeast of Cairo. Its area is about 3,500 km² and it has a population of about 5 million. The capital of Dakahlia is Al Mansurah, and the other major towns are Mit Ghamr,...
Area:
- 3,500 km² (1351 mi² )
Al Bahr al Ahmar
Red Sea Governorate (Arabic: البحر الأحمر "El Bahr El Ahmar") is one of the governorates of Egypt. It is located between the Nile and the Red Sea in the southeast of the country and its southern border forms part of Egypt's border with Sudan. Its...
Area:
- 203.685 km² (78.6432 mi² )
Al Wadi al Jadid
The New Valley Governorate (Arabic: الوادى الجديد, Egyptian Arabic:El Wadi el Gedid) is one of the governorates of Egypt. It is in the south-west of the country, between the Nile and Libya. Its capital is the Kharga Oasis. It is the largest...
Area:
- 376,505 km² (145369 mi² )
Al Buhayrah Governorate
'Beheira Governorate (Arabic: 'البحيرة , el-Beheirah; 'the Lake') is a coastal governorate in Egypt. It is in the north of the country and its capital is Damanhur. The distance from Cairo (Attaba) to el-Beheirah is 135 km. It is also one of the...
Area:
- 9,845 km² (3801 mi² )
Al Iskandariyah Governorate
Alexandria governorate (Arabic: محافظةالإسكندرية) is one of the governorates of Egypt, located in the north of the country, lying directly on the Mediterranean Sea which makes it one of the most important harbours in Egypt. With Cairo and Giza, it...
Area:
- 2,900 km² (1120 mi² )
Al Isma'iliyah Governorate
Ismailia Governorate (Arabic: الإسماعيلية) is one of the governorates of Egypt. It is in the northeast of the country. Its capital is the city of Ismailia.
Al Minufiyah
Monufia Governorate (Arabic: المنوفية ) is one of the principal governorates of Egypt. It is in the north of the country (south of Gharbia and north of Cairo) and its capital is Shibin el-Kom. The main towns are Quesna, Tala, Bagour, Menouf,...
Al Minya Governorate
Minya Governorate (Arabic: محافظة المنيا ) is one of the governorates of Upper Egypt. The name originates from the chief city of the governorate, originally known in Sahidic Coptic as Tmoone (ⲧⲙⲟⲟⲛⲉ) and in Bohairic as Thmonē (ⲑⲙⲟⲛⲏ), meaning “the...
Area:
- 32,279 km² (12463 mi² )
Al Qalyubiyah
Qalyubia Governorate (Arabic: القليوبية) is one of the governorates of Egypt. It is in the north of the country. Its capital is Banha. It is the leading Egyptian governorate in the production of chicken, eggs, orange, fig and apricot. The majority...
Area:
- 1,001.09 km² (386.523 mi² )
Ash Sharqiyah Governorate
Sharqia Governorate (Arabic: محافظة الشرقيّة Muḥāfzet iš-Šarqiyyä) is one of the governorates of Egypt. It is in the north of the country. Its capital is Zagazig. Cities:
As Suways Governorate
Suez Governorate (Arabic: محافظة السويس ) is one of the governorates of Egypt. It is in the northeast of the country and is coterminous with the city of Suez. It is situated East of Delta, North of Suez Gulf, and is linked with other Egyptian...
Asyut Governorate
Asyut Governorate (Arabic: أسيوط) is one of the governorates of Egypt. It stretches for about 120 km along the banks of the Nile. The capital of the governorate is the city of Asyut.
The name of Asyut (Arabic: أسيوط) is derived from early Egyptian...
Area:
- 25,926 km² (10010 mi² )
Bani Suwayf Governorate
Beni Suef (Arabic: بني سويف ) is one of the governorates of Egypt. It is in the centre of the country. Its capital goes by the same name. The capital of the governorate is the city of Beni Suef, located about 120 km south of Cairo on the west bank...
Bur Sa'id Governorate
Port Said Governorate (Arabic: محافظة بور سعيد ) is one of the governorates of Egypt. It is in the northeast of the country. Its capital is the city of Port Said.
Janub Sina'
South Sinai Governorate (Arabic: جنوب سيناء) is one of the governorates of Egypt. It is in the east of the country, covering the southern half of the Sinai Peninsula.
The major cities include:
Matruh
Matruh (Arabic: مطروح ) is one of the governorates of Egypt. It is in the north-west of the country, bordering Libya. Its capital is Mersa Matruh.
It contains many historical sites related to World War II, such as the El Alamein and cemeteries of...
Area:
- 212,112 km² (81896.9 mi² )
Qina Governorate
Qena Governorate (Arabic: قنا) is one of the governorates of Egypt. It is in the south of the country, and covers a stretch of the Nile valley. Its capital is the city of Qena.
The governorate of Qina comprises the following cities:
The governorate...
Shamal Sina'
North Sinai Governorate (Arabic: شمال سيناء, Shamal Sina) is one of the governorates of Egypt. It is in the east of the country, covering the northern half of the Sinai Peninsula. Its capital is Arish.
Al Uqsur Governorate
Luxor (Arabic: الأقصر ) is a governorate of Egypt since December 7, 2009. It considered a city of distinctive character, under administration of the Qena Governorate. In 1989, the city of Luxor was given a special status by a Presidential decree...
Area:
- 55 km² (21 mi² )
Al 'Arish
Arish or el-Arīsh (Arabic: العريش) is the capital and largest city (with 114,900 inhabitants as of 2002) of the Egyptian governorate of North Sinai, lying on the Mediterranean coast of the Sinai peninsula, 344 kilometers (214 miles) northeast of...
Cairo International Airport
Cairo International Airport (IATA: CAI, ICAO: HECA) (Arabic: مطار القاهرة الدولي) is the busiest airport in Egypt and the primary hub for Star Alliance member EgyptAir. The airport is located to the north-east of the city around 15 km from the...
Hurghada
Hurghada (ar.: Al Ghardaqah, الغردقة) is a city in the Red Sea Governorate of Egypt. It is a tourist center located on the Red Sea coast.
The city was founded in the early 20th century, and since the 1980s has been continually enlarged by Egyptian...
