Alexandria
Alexandria is Egypt's second largest city, its largest seaport, and the country's window onto the Mediterranean Sea. The city is a faded shadow of its former glorious cosmopolitan self, but still worth a visit for its many cultural attractions and still-palpable glimpses of its past.Photo: David Evers, CC BY 2.0.
Photo: Wing, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Photo: Wing, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Photo: Khaledfawzy1, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Notable Places in the Area
Lighthouse of Alexandria
The Lighthouse of Alexandria, sometimes called the Pharos of Alexandria, was a lighthouse built by the Ptolemaic Kingdom of Ancient Egypt, during the reign of Ptolemy II Philadelphus.Bibliotheca Alexandrina
Photo: Shivani Singh04, CC BY-SA 4.0.
The Bibliotheca Alexandrina is a major library and cultural center on the shore of the Mediterranean Sea in Alexandria, Egypt.
Citadel of Qaitbay
The Citadel of Qaitbay is a 15th-century defensive fortress located on the Mediterranean sea coast, in Alexandria, Egypt.Localities in the Area
Wardeyan
Al Wardian is a neighborhood in Alexandria, Egypt. Al Wardian neighborhood is located in Alexandria, specifically in the western part of Alexandria, near Alexandria Port.Alexandria
- Type: City with 4,550,000 residents
- Description: City in Egypt
- Categories: port settlement, municipality, big city, polis, million city, second largest city and locality
- Location: Alexandria Governorate, Lower Egypt, Egypt, North Africa, Africa
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Latitude
31.1992° or 31° 11' 57" northLongitude
29.8952° or 29° 53' 43" eastPopulation
4,550,000Elevation
9 metres (30 feet)IATA airport code
ALYUnited Nations Location Code
EG ALYOpen Location Code
8G3F5VXW+M3OpenStreetMap ID
node 27565020OpenStreetMap Feature
place=cityGeoNames ID
361058Wikidata ID
Q87Alexandria Satellite Map
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Also Known As
- Abkhazian: Taskendrit
- Afrikaans: Alexandrië
- Albanian: Aleksandria
- Amharic: እስክንድርያ
- Arabic: Alexandria
- Arabic: إسكندرية
- Arabic: الأسكندرية
- Arabic: الإسكندرية
- Arabic: الاسكندرية
- Arabic: عروس البحر الأبيض المتوسط
- Aragonese: Aleixandría
- Armenian: Ալեքսանդրիա
- Armenian: Աղեքսանտրիա
- Asturian: Alexandría (Exiptu)
- Asturian: Alexandría
- Azerbaijani: İsgəndəriyyə
- Balinese: Aléksandria
- Bashkir: Искәндәриә
- Basque: Alexandria
- Belarusian: Александрыя
- Bengali: আলেকজান্দ্রিয়া
- Bhojpuri: अलेक्जैंड्रिया
- Bhojpuri: सिकंदरिया
- Bhojpuri: सिकन्दरिया
- Bishnupriya: আলেক্সান্ড্রিয়া
- Bosnian: Aleksandrija
- Breton: Aleksandria
- Bulgarian: Александрия
- Burmese: အလက်ဇန္ဒရီးယားမြို့
- Catalan: Alexandria
- Cebuano: Alexandria
- Central Kurdish: ئەسکەندەرییە
- Central Kurdish: ئەسکەندەریە
- Chechen: Искандри
- Chechen: Искандрия
- Chinese: Alexandria
- Chinese: 亞歷山卓
- Chinese: 亚历山卓
- Chinese: 亚历山大
- Chinese: 亚历山大港
- Chinese: 亚历山大里亚
- Chinese: 亞歷山卓
- Chinese: 亞歷山大
- Chinese: 亞歷山大港
- Corsican: Alessandria
- Corsican: Alessandria d'Egittu
- Corsican: Alissandria
- Corsican: Alissandria d'Egittu
- Croatian: Aleksandrija
- Czech: Alexandrie
- Danish: Alexandria
- Dimli (individual language): İskenderiya
- Dutch: Alexandrië
- Eastern Mari: Александрий
- Egyptian Arabic: اسكندريه
- English: Al Iskandariya
- English: Alexandria, Egypt
- English: Iskandariyya
- English: Mediterranean's Bride
- English: Pearl of the Mediterranean
- Esperanto: Aleksandrio
- Estonian: Aleksandria
- Extremaduran: Alejandria
- Faroese: Alexandria
- Finnish: Aleksandria
- French: Alexandrie
- Fulah: Alexandria
- Galician: Alexandría
- Georgian: ალექსანდრია
- German: Alexandria
- Greek: Αλεξάνδρεια
- Gujarati: એલેક્ઝાન્ડ્રિયા
- Hakka Chinese: Alexandria
- Hausa: Alexandria
- Hebrew: אלכסנדריה
- Hindi: सिकन्दरिया
- Hungarian: Alexandria
- Icelandic: Alexandría
- Ido: Alexandria
- Inari Sami: Aleksandria
- Indonesian: Aleksandria
- Indonesian: Iskandariyah
- Interlingua: Alexandria ad Egypto
- Interlingue: Alexandria
- Irish: Cathair Alastair
- Italian: Alessandria
- Italian: Alessandria d'Egitto
- Japanese: アル=イスカンダリーヤ
- Japanese: アレクサンドリア
- Japanese: アレクサンドレイア
- Japanese: アレクサンドロスの町
- Japanese: エスケンデレイヤ
- Japanese: 地中海の真珠
- Javanese: Alexandria
- Kabiyè: Alɛkɩsandrii
- Kabyle: Taskendrit
- Kalaallisut: Alexandria
- Kannada: ಅಲೆಕ್ಸಾಂಡ್ರಿಯ
- Kannada: ಸಿಕಂದರಿಯಾ
- Kazakh: Александрия
- Kazakh: Ескендір қаласы
- Kirghiz: Александрия
- Komi-Permyak: Ӧльӧксандрия
- Komi: Ӧльӧксандрия
- Korean: 알렉산드리아
- Korean: 엘이쓰잔다리야
- Kurdish: Pirlentaya Deryaya Navîn
- Kurdish: Îskenderiye
- Ladino: Alejandria
- Latin: Alexandria
- Latin: Alexandria Magna
- Latvian: Aleksandrija
- Ligurian: Lusciandria d'Egitto
- Limburgan: Alexandrië
- Lingua Franca Nova: Iskandariya
- Lithuanian: Aleksandrija
- Low German: Alexandria
- Luxembourgish: Alexandria
- Macedonian: Александрија
- Malagasy: Aleksandria
- Malagasy: Alexandria
- Malay: Iskandariah
- Malay: إسکندرية
- Malayalam: അലക്സാണ്ട്രിയ
- Maltese: Lixandra
- Maori: Arekehānaria
- Marathi: अलेक्झांड्रिया, इजिप्त
- Marathi: अलेक्झांड्रिया
- Mazanderani: اسکندریه
- Min Dong Chinese: Alexandria
- Min Nan Chinese: Alexandria
- Minangkabau: Alexandria
- Mingrelian: ალექსანდრია
- Mongolian: Александриа
- Mongolian: Александрия
- Moroccan Arabic: لإسكندرية
- Nauru: Alexandria
- Neapolitan: Alessandria 'e Naggitto
- Neapolitan: Alessandria d'Egitto
- Neapolitan: Alessandria e Naggitto
- Nepali: अलेक्जेन्ड्रिया
- Northern Frisian: Alexandria
- Norwegian: Alexandria
- Norwegian Bokmål: Alexandria
- Norwegian Nynorsk: Alexandria
- Occitan (post 1500): Alexàndria
- Official Aramaic (700-300 BCE): ܐܠܟܣܢܕܪܝܐ
- Ossetian: Александрия
- Panjabi: ਸਿਕੰਦਰੀਆ
- Persian: اسکندریه
- Piemontese: Lissandria d'Egit
- Polish: Aleksandria
- Portuguese: Alexandria
- Pushto: اسکندریه
- Pushto: الکزنډريا
- Quechua: Aliksanriya
- Quechua: Iskandariya
- Romanian: Alexandria, Egipt
- Romanian: Alexandria
- Russian: Александрия (Египет)
- Russian: Александрия
- Russian: Аль-Искандария
- Russian: Искандария
- Russian: Искандерия
- Russian: Эль-Искандерия
- Rusyn: Александрия
- Sardinian: Alessandria d'Egitto
- Sardinian: Lisàndria
- Sardinian: Lisàndria dEgittu
- Scots: Alexandria
- Scottish Gaelic: Alecsandria
- Serbian: Александрија
- Serbo-Croatian: Aleksandrija
- Shona: Alexandria
- Sicilian: Alessandria d'Eggittu
- Sicilian: Alessandria dEggittu
- Silesian: Aleksandryjo
- Sindhi: اسڪاندريا
- Sindhi: اسڪندريا
- Sindhi: اسڪندريہ
- Sindhi: ال اسڪندريا
- Sindhi: اليڪسندريا
- Sindhi: اليگزيندريا
- Sindhi: اليگزينڊريا
- Sindhi: اليگزينڊريا، مصر
- Sindhi: ميڊيٽرينين جي ڪنوار
- Sindhi: ميڊيٽرينين سمنڊ جو موتي
- Sinhala: ඇලෙක්සැන්ඩ්රියාව
- Slovak: Alexandria
- Slovenian: Aleksandrija
- Somali: Askandariya
- South Azerbaijani: اسکندریه
- South Azerbaijani: الکزاندریا ،
- South Azerbaijani: ایسکندریه
- Spanish: Alejandria
- Spanish: Alejandría
- Swahili: Aleksandria
- Swedish: Alexandria
- Swiss German: Alexandria
- Tagalog: Alehandriya
- Tajik: Александрия
- Tajik: Искандария
- Tamil: அலெக்சாந்திரியா
- Tatar: Искәндәрия
- Telugu: అలెగ్జాండ్రియా
- Thai: อะเล็กซานเดรีย
- Tibetan: ཡ་ལི་ཧྲན་ད
- Tosk Albanian: Alexandria
- Turkish: İskenderiye
- Twi: Aleksandria
- Twi: Alexandria
- Uighur: ئىسكەندەرىيە
- Ukrainian: Александрія
- Urdu: اسکندریہ
- Uzbek: Aleksandriya
- Uzbek: Iskandariya
- Venetian: Ałesandria d'Egito
- Venetian: Ałesandria dEgito
- Veps: Aleksandrii
- Vietnamese: Alexandria
- Vietnamese: Á Lịch Sơn Trác
- Vietnamese: Á Lịch Sơn Đại Cảng
- Vietnamese: Ô Trì Tan
- Waray (Philippines): Alexandria
- Welsh: Alecsandria
- Welsh: Alexandria
- Western Armenian: Ալ–Իսքանդարիա
- Western Armenian: Աղեքսանդրիա
- Western Frisian: Aleksanderje
- Western Frisian: Aleksandrje
- Western Panjabi: اسکندریہ
- Wolof: Alegsàndiri
- Wu Chinese: 亚历山大
- Wu Chinese: 亚历山大港
- Yiddish: אלעקסאנדריע
- Yue Chinese: 亞歷山大
- Yue Chinese: 亞歷山大港
- Zulu: Alexandria, Gibhithe
- Al Iskandarīyah
- Alesandria
- El Iskandarīya
- Iskindirîya
Other Places Named Alexandria
In the Area
- Al Attarin EastNeighbourhood
- Al Magharba And Souq Al TorkNeighbourhood
- Al Genina Al Kabira And Souq Al MaaizNeighbourhood
- Al HamamilNeighbourhood
- Al Attarin WestNeighbourhood
- Meshmes Al BasalNeighbourhood
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