Pyramid of Kheops
The Great Pyramid of Giza is the largest Egyptian pyramid and served as the tomb of pharaoh Khufu, who ruled during the Fourth Dynasty of the Old Kingdom.Photo: Dennis Jarvis, CC BY-SA 2.0.
- Type: Tourist attraction
- Description: oldest and largest of the three pyramids in the Giza Necropolis; one of the seven ancient wonders of the world
- Address: Giza
- Roof shape: pyramidal
Photo: Waelfouda, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Notable Places in the Area
Khafra
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The pyramid of Khafre or of Chephren is the middle of the three Ancient Egyptian Pyramids of Giza, the second tallest and second largest of the group. Khafra is situated 490 metres southwest of Pyramid of Kheops.
Great Sphinx
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The Great Sphinx of Giza is a limestone statue of a reclining sphinx, a mythical creature with the head of a human and the body of a lion. Great Sphinx is situated 540 metres southeast of Pyramid of Kheops.
Giza Pyramids
Photo: Maveric149, CC BY-SA 3.0.
The Giza pyramid complex in Egypt is home to the Great Pyramid, the Pyramid of Khafre, and the Pyramid of Menkaure, along with their associated pyramid complexes and the Great Sphinx. Giza Pyramids is situated 1¼ km southwest of Pyramid of Kheops.
Localities in the Area
Kerdasa
Kerdasa is a markaz in Giza Governorate nearby Giza Plateau, Egypt. Kerdasa is situated 6 km north of Pyramid of Kheops.Giza
Photo: Maveric149, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Picture yourself in Egypt and you picture this. Imagine Ancient Egypt and this is where your mind will land.
Abu Rawash
Photo: AhlyMan, Public domain.
30°01′55″N 31°04′30″E / 30.03194°N 31.07500°E The ruined Pyramid of Djedefre sits atop the… Abu Rawash is situated 8 km northwest of Pyramid of Kheops.
Pyramid of Kheops
- Categories: smooth-sided pyramid, archaeological site, Wonder of the Ancient World, Egyptian pyramids, tomb, building, tourism and historic site
- Location: Giza Governorate, Egypt, North Africa, Africa
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Latitude
29.97916° or 29° 58' 45" northLongitude
31.13421° or 31° 8' 3" eastElevation
95 metres (312 feet)Height
139 metres (455 feet)Open Location Code
7GXHX4HM+MMOpenStreetMap ID
way 4420397OpenStreetMap Feature
building=yesOpenStreetMap Feature
historic=tombOpenStreetMap Feature
tourism=attractionOpenStreetMap Attribute
roof-shape=pyramidalGeoNames ID
356475Wikidata ID
Q37200Pyramid of Kheops Satellite Map
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Also Known As
- Afrikaans: Groot Piramide van Giza
- Albanian: Piramida e Keopsit
- Amharic: የጊዛ ታላቅ ፒራሚድ
- Arabic: Dungganan nga Piramide han Giza
- Arabic: الهرم الأكبر
- Arabic: الهرم الاكبر
- Arabic: هرم أكبر
- Arabic: هرم اكبر
- Arabic: هرم الجيزة العظيم
- Arabic: هرم الملك خوفو
- Arabic: هرم خوفو
- Armenian: Քեոպսի բուրգ
- Armenian: Քեոփսի բուրգ
- Armenian: Քեոփսի բուրգը
- Asturian: Gran Piramide de Keops
- Asturian: Gran Pirámide de Gizeh
- Asturian: Gran Pirámide de Guiza
- Asturian: Gran pirámide de Guiza
- Asturian: Piramide de Keops
- Asturian: Pirámide de Khufu
- Azerbaijani: Xeops ehramı
- Bashkir: Хеопс пирамидаһы
- Basque: Gizako Piramide Handia
- Basque: Gizako piramide handia
- Basque: Keopsen piramidea
- Belarusian: Вялікая піраміда Гізы
- Belarusian: Вялікая піраміда Хеопса
- Belarusian: Піраміда Хеопса
- Bengali: গিজার মহা পিরামিড
- Bosnian: Keopsova piramida
- Bosnian: Velika piramida u Gizi
- Breton: Piramidenn C'heops
- Breton: Piramidenn C'houfou
- Breton: Piramidenn Kheops
- Breton: Piramidenn vras Gizah
- Bulgarian: Велика пирамида
- Bulgarian: Велика пирамида в Гиза
- Bulgarian: Великата пирамида
- Bulgarian: Великата пирамида в Гиза
- Bulgarian: Голяма пирамида в Гиза
- Bulgarian: Голямата пирамида в Гиза
- Bulgarian: Пирамида на Хеопс
- Bulgarian: Пирамида на Хуфу
- Bulgarian: Пирамидата на Хеопс
- Bulgarian: Хеопсова пирамида
- Bulgarian: Хеопсовата пирамида
- Burmese: ဂိုင်ဇာမဟာပိရိမစ်ကြီး
- Burmese: ဂီဇာမဟာပိရမစ်ကြီး
- Catalan: Gran Piràmide de Giza
- Catalan: Gran Piràmide de Gizeh
- Catalan: Gran piràmide
- Catalan: Keops
- Catalan: Piràmide de Giza
- Catalan: Piràmide de Keops
- Catalan: Piràmide de Quèops
- Catalan: piràmide de Kheops
- Catalan: piràmide de Quèops
- Cebuano: The Great Pyramid at Giza
- Chinese: Giza ê Tōa Kim-jī-thah
- Chinese: 古夫金字塔
- Chinese: 吉萨大金字塔
- Chinese: 大金字塔
- Chinese: 奇歐普斯金字塔
- Chinese: 胡夫金字塔
- Chuvash: Хеопс пирамиди
- Croatian: Keopsova piramida
- Croatian: Kufuova piramida
- Croatian: Velika piramida
- Czech: Cheopsova pyramida
- Czech: Chufevova pyramida
- Czech: Chufuova pyramida
- Czech: Velká pyramida
- Danish: Den store pyramide i Giza
- Danish: Den store pyramide i Gizeh
- Danish: Keops pyramiden
- Danish: Keopspyramiden
- Dhivehi: ޚޫފޫ ޕިރަމިޑް
- Dutch: De piramide van Cheops
- Dutch: Grote Piramide
- Dutch: Grote Piramide van Giza
- Dutch: Grote Piramide van Gizeh
- Dutch: Piramide van Cheops
- Dutch: Pyramide van Cheops
- Egyptian Arabic: هرم خوفو
- English: Great Pyramid of Giza
- English: Great Pyramid of Gizeh
- English: Pyramid nke Cheops
- English: Pyramid nke Khufu
- English: Pyramid of Cheops
- English: Pyramid of Khufu
- Esperanto: Granda Piramido de Gizo
- Esperanto: Piramido de Keopso
- Esperanto: Piramido de Ĥufu
- Estonian: Cheopsi püramiid
- Estonian: Hufu Suur püramiid
- Finnish: Gizan suuri pyramidi
- Finnish: Kheopsin pyramidi
- Finnish: Khufun pyramidi
- French: Grande pyramide
- French: Grande pyramide de Gizeh
- French: Grande pyramide de Khéops
- French: Pyramide de Gizeh
- French: Pyramide de Kheops
- French: Pyramide de Khéops
- French: Pyramide de giza
- French: pyramide de Khéops
- Galician: Gran Pirámide
- Galician: Gran Pirámide de Gizeh
- Galician: Gran Pirámide de Guiza
- Galician: Pirámide de Queops
- Georgian: გიზის დიდი პირამიდა
- Georgian: ხეოფსის პირამიდა
- German: Cheops-Pyramide
- German: Cheopspyramide
- German: Chufu-Pyramide
- Greek: Πυραμίδα του Χέοπα
- Greek: Πυραμίδα του Χέοπος
- Guianese Creole French: Piramid di Khéops
- Gujarati: ગીઝાનો મહાન પિરામિડ
- Hebrew: הפירמידה הגדולה של גיזה
- Hebrew: פירמידה גדולה
- Hebrew: פירמידה גדולה של גיזה
- Hindi: खुफू का पिरामिड
- Hindi: गीज़ा के महान पिरामिड
- Hindi: गीजा का महान पिरामिड
- Hungarian: Gízai Nagy Piramis, Khufu - Keops piramis
- Hungarian: Gízai nagy piramis
- Hungarian: Hufu-piramis
- Hungarian: Kheopsz-piramis
- Hungarian: Khufu-piramis
- Hungarian: Nagy-piramis
- Hungarian: a gízai Nagy-piramis
- Hungarian: el-gízai nagy piramis
- Hungarian: gízai Nagy-piramis
- Hungarian: gízai nagy piramis
- Hungarian: nagy piramis
- Icelandic: Píramídinn mikli í Giza
- Icelandic: Pýramídinn mikli í Giza
- Icelandic: Pýramídinn mikli í Gísa
- Igbo: Nnukwu pyramid nke Giza
- Indonesian: Piramid Giza
- Indonesian: Piramida Agung
- Indonesian: Piramida Agung Giza
- Indonesian: Piramida Besar Giza
- Indonesian: Piramida Cheops
- Indonesian: Piramida Giza
- Indonesian: Piramida Khufu
- Irish: Pirimid Mhór Giza
- Italian: Grande Piramide
- Italian: Piramide di Cheope
- Italian: grande piramide di Giza
- Italian: piramide di Cheope
- Italian: piramide di Khufu
- Japanese: ギザのピラミッド
- Japanese: ギザの大ピラミッド
- Japanese: クフ王のピラミッド
- Japanese: クフ王の大ピラミッド
- Javanese: Piramid Giza
- Javanese: Piramida Agung Giza
- Kannada: ಗೀಜಾದ ಮಹಾ ಪಿರಾಮಿಡ್
- Kazakh: Хеопс пирамидасы
- Khmer: មហាពីរ៉ាមីតនៃជីហ្សា
- Korean: 기자의 대피라미드
- Korean: 대피라미드
- Korean: 쿠푸의 대피라미드
- Kurdish: Pîramîda Keops
- Kurdish: Pîramîda Mezin
- Lao: ມະຫາປີລະມິດ ແຫ່ງ ກິຊາ
- Latin: Magna Pyramis Gizensis
- Latvian: Heopsa piramīda
- Limburgan: Piramide va Cheops
- Limburgan: Piramide van Cheops
- Lithuanian: Cheopso piramidė
- Lithuanian: Didžioji Gizos piramidė
- Livvi: Kheopsan piramidu
- Low German: Piramide van Cheops
- Low German: Piramide van Kheops
- Low German: Pyramide van Kheops
- Macedonian: Кеопсова пирамида
- Maithili: गीजा कऽ महान पिरामिड
- Malagasy: Piramida lehibe an'i Giza
- Malay: Piramid Agung Giza
- Malay: Piramid Agung Kufu
- Malay: Piramid Besar Kufu
- Malay: Piramid Giza
- Malayalam: Great Pyramid of Giza
- Malayalam: ഗിസ പിരമിഡ്
- Malayalam: ഗിസാ പിരമിഡ്
- Marathi: खुफूचा पिरॅमिड
- Marathi: गिझाचा भव्य पिरॅमिड
- Marathi: गिझाचे महान पिरॅमिड्स
- Min Nan Chinese: Giza ê Tōa Kim-jī-thah
- Minangkabau: Piramid Giza
- Mongolian: Гизагийн аугаа Пирамид
- Mongolian: Хеопсын буюу Хуфугийн пирамид
- Mongolian: Хеопсын пирамид
- Mongolian: Хуфугийн пирамид
- Neapolitan: Piramide 'e Cheope
- Nepali: गिजाको विशाल पिरामिड
- Nepali: पिरामिड
- Nepali: मिश्रको पिरामिड
- Norwegian: Kheopspyramiden
- Norwegian Bokmål: Den store pyramide i Giza
- Norwegian Bokmål: Den store pyramiden i Giza
- Norwegian Bokmål: Keopspyramiden
- Norwegian Bokmål: Kepospyramiden
- Norwegian Bokmål: Kheopspyramiden
- Norwegian Nynorsk: Keopspyramiden
- Norwegian Nynorsk: Kheopspyramiden
- Occitan (post 1500): Grana Piramida
- Occitan (post 1500): Grana Piramida de Giza
- Occitan (post 1500): Grana Piramida de Guisah
- Occitan (post 1500): Granda Piramida
- Occitan (post 1500): Granda Piramida de Giza
- Occitan (post 1500): Piramida de Kheops
- Panjabi: ਖ਼ੁਫ਼ੂ ਦਾ ਮਹਾਨ ਪਿਰਾਮਿਡ
- Persian: هرم بزرگ جیزه
- Persian: هرم خئوپس
- Persian: هرم خوفو
- Persian: هرم کوفو
- Polish: Piramida Cheopsa
- Polish: Piramida Chufu
- Polish: Wielka Piramida
- Polish: Wielka Piramida Cheopsa
- Portuguese: Grande Pirâmide de Gizé
- Portuguese: Pirâmide de Quéops
- Pushto: د جیزه لوی هرم
- Quechua: Giza chuntu
- Quechua: Giza hatun chuntu
- Quechua: Gizapi chuntu
- Romanian: Marea Piramidă
- Romanian: Marea Piramidă din Giseh
- Romanian: Marea Piramidă din Giza
- Romanian: Marea piramida a lui Keops
- Romanian: Piramida lui Keops
- Romany: Piramida lui Keops
- Russian: Великая пирамида
- Russian: Пирамида Хеопса
- Russian: Пирамида Хуфу
- Russian: Хеопсова пирамида
- Russian: пирамида Хеопса
- Scots: Great Pyramid o Giza
- Serbian: Велика Кеопсова пирамида
- Serbian: Кеопсова пирамида
- Serbo-Croatian: Keopsova piramida
- Serbo-Croatian: Velika Keopsova piramida
- Serbo-Croatian: Velika piramida u Gizi
- Silesian: Wielgŏ Piyramida we Gizie
- Sinhala: ගීසාහී මහා පිරමිඩය
- Slovak: Cheopsova pyramída
- Slovak: Chufevova pyramída
- Slovak: Chufuho pyrmída
- Slovak: Chufuova pyramída
- Slovak: Prvá pyramída v Gíze
- Slovak: Veľká Cheopsova pyramída
- Slovak: Veľká pyramída v Gíze
- Slovenian: Keopsova piramida
- South Azerbaijani: جیزه هرمی
- Spanish: Gran Piramide
- Spanish: Gran Piramide de Giza
- Spanish: Gran Piramide de Guiza
- Spanish: Gran Piramide de Keops
- Spanish: Gran Pirámide
- Spanish: Gran Pirámide de Giza
- Spanish: Gran Pirámide de Guiza
- Spanish: Gran Pirámide de Keops
- Spanish: Gran piramide de Gizeh
- Spanish: Gran pirámide de Giza
- Spanish: Gran pirámide de Gizeh
- Spanish: La Gran Piramide
- Spanish: La Gran Piramide de Giza
- Spanish: La Gran Pirámide
- Spanish: La Gran Pirámide de Giza
- Spanish: Piramide de Giza
- Spanish: Piramide de Gizeh
- Spanish: Piramide de Guiza
- Spanish: Piramide de Jufu
- Spanish: Piramide de Keops
- Spanish: Piramide de Khufu
- Spanish: Pirámide de Gizeh
- Spanish: Pirámide de Guiza
- Spanish: Pirámide de Jufu
- Spanish: Pirámide de Keops
- Spanish: Pirámide de Khufu
- Swedish: Cheopspyramiden
- Tagalog: Dakilang Piramide ng Giza
- Tagalog: pyramid of giza
- Tamil: கிசா பிரமிடு வளாகம்
- Tamil: கிசாவின் பெரிய பிரமிடு
- Tamil: கிசாவின் பெரிய பிரமிட்
- Tamil: கீசாவின் மாபெரும் பிரமிட்
- Tatar: Xeops piramidası
- Tatar: Гизаның Бөек пирамидасы
- Telugu: గ్రేట్ పిరమిడ్ ఆఫ్ గిజా
- Thai: Great Pyramid of Giza
- Thai: พีระมิดคีออปส์
- Thai: พีระมิดคูฟู
- Thai: มหาปิระมิดแห่งกีซา
- Thai: มหาพีระมิด
- Thai: มหาพีระมิดแห่งกิซ่า
- Thai: มหาพีระมิดแห่งกีซา
- Turkish: Giza Piramidi
- Turkish: Keops Piramidi
- Turkish: Keops Piramiti
- Turkish: Khufu Piramidi
- Twi: Cheops Pyramid
- Ukrainian: Велика Піраміда
- Ukrainian: Піраміда Хеопса
- Ukrainian: піраміда Хеопса
- Urdu: گیزہ کا عظیم ہرم
- Urdu: ہرم خوفو
- Uzbek: Xeopsa Piramidasi
- Uzbek: Xeops piramidasi
- Veps: Heopsan piramid
- Vietnamese: Kim tự tháp Cheops
- Vietnamese: Kim tự tháp Giza
- Vietnamese: Kim tự tháp Kheops
- Vietnamese: Kim tự tháp Khufu
- Vietnamese: Kim tự tháp lớn Giza
- Vietnamese: Kim tự tháp lớn ở Giza
- Vietnamese: Đại kim tự tháp
- Vietnamese: Đại kim tự tháp Giza
- Waray (Philippines): Dungganan nga Piramide han Giza
- Waray (Philippines): Great Pyramid of Giza
- Waray (Philippines): Harangdon nga Piramide han Giza
- Welsh: Pyramid Mawr Giza
- Welsh: Pyramid Mawr Khufu
- Western Frisian: Piramide fan Cheops
- Western Panjabi: خوفو دا اہرام
- Western Panjabi: خوفو دا ہرم
- Wu Chinese: 胡夫金字塔
- Yoruba: Great Pyramid of Giza
- Yoruba: Pírámídì Nínlá ti Gísà
- Yue Chinese: 胡夫金字塔
- Zeeuws: Piramide van Cheops
- Cheops
- Ekhet Khufu
- Haram Khūfū
- Đại Kim tự tháp Giza
- Хеопс
In the Area
Localities
- Western cemeteryLocality
- Menkaure quarryLocality
- Remaya SquareVillage
- Southern field of mainly rock cut tombsLocality
- Nazlet Al Siman and Al SisiNeighbourhood
- Kom al AkhdarSuburb
Other Places
- Tomb of HemiunuTomb, 410 metres west
- Point of HorusMemorial, 550 metres southeast
- Giza to Cairo bus STPBus stop, 620 metres north
- Atlantis Pyramids InnHotel, 680 metres southeast
- pyramids Overlook InnHotel, 700 metres southeast
- Marriott Mena House, CairoHotel, 760 metres north
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