Aswan
Aswan is the southernmost city of Egypt, some 870 km south of Cairo, just below the Aswan Dam and Lake Nasser, with a population of 275,000. Aswan is far more relaxed and smaller than Cairo and Luxor. The River Nile as it passes through Aswan…Notable Places in the Area
Elephantine
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Elephantine is an island on the Nile, forming part of the city of Aswan in Upper Egypt.
El Nabatat Island
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El Nabatat Island or Kitchener's Island, is a small, oval-shaped island in the Nile at Aswan, Egypt.
Unfinished obelisk
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24°04′37″N 32°53′44″E / 24.076889°N 32.895450°E The unfinished obelisk is the largest known ancient obelisk and is located in the northern region of the stone quarries of ancient Egypt in Aswan, Egypt.
Aswan
- Type: City with 241,000 residents
- Description: Egyptian city
- Categories: big city and locality
- Location: Aswan Governorate, Upper Egypt, Egypt, North Africa, Africa
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Latitude
24.0911° or 24° 5' 28" northLongitude
32.8973° or 32° 53' 50" eastPopulation
241,000Elevation
99 metres (325 feet)IATA airport code
ASWUnited Nations Location Code
EG ASWOpen Location Code
7GPJ3VRW+CWOpenStreetMap ID
node 1667671341OpenStreetMap Feature
place=cityGeoNames ID
359792Wikidata ID
Q29888Aswan Satellite Map
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Also Known As
- Abkhazian: Aswan
- Afrikaans: Aswan
- Arabic: Aswan
- Arabic: Aswān
- Arabic: أسوان
- Armenian: Ասուան
- Armenian: Սիենա
- Asturian: Aswan
- Azerbaijani: Əsvan
- Basque: Assuan
- Basque: Aswan
- Belarusian: Асуан
- Bengali: আসওয়ান
- Bengali: আ্সওয়ান
- Bosnian: Asuan
- Bulgarian: Асуан
- Catalan: Assuan
- Cebuano: Aswan
- Cebuano: Markaz Aswān
- Central Kurdish: ئەسوان
- Chinese: 阿斯旺
- Croatian: Asuan
- Czech: Asuán
- Danish: Aswan
- Dutch: Aswan
- Egyptian Arabic: أسوان
- Egyptian Arabic: اسوان
- English: Assouan
- English: Aswān
- English: Syene
- Esperanto: Asuano
- Estonian: Assuan
- Estonian: Aswān
- Finnish: Assuan
- Finnish: Aswan
- Finnish: Swenet
- Finnish: Swān
- Finnish: Syene
- Finnish: Συήνη
- Finnish: ⲥⲟⲩⲁⲛ
- French: Assouan
- Galician: Asuán - أسوان
- Galician: Asuán
- Georgian: ასუანი
- German: Assuan
- German: Assuân
- German: Eswan
- German: Siene
- German: Sunu
- German: Syene
- German: Syène
- Greek: Ασουάν
- Greek: Ασσουάν
- Gujarati: અસ્વાન
- Gujarati: આસવાન
- Hebrew: אסואן
- Hindi: असवान
- Hindi: आस्वान
- Hungarian: Asszuán
- Indonesian: Aswan
- Irish: Aswan
- Italian: Assuan
- Japanese: アスワン
- Kabyle: Aswan
- Kannada: ಆಸ್ವಾನ್
- Kazakh: Асуан
- Kirghiz: Асуан
- Korean: 아스완
- Kurdish: Aswan
- Kurdish: Eswan
- Latin: Syene
- Latvian: Asuāna
- Lithuanian: Asuanas
- Macedonian: Асуан
- Malagasy: Aswan
- Malay: Aswan
- Malayalam: അസ്വാൻ
- Maori: Hewene
- Marathi: आस्वान
- Norwegian: Aswan
- Norwegian Bokmål: Aswan
- Norwegian Nynorsk: Aswan
- Occitan (post 1500): Assoan
- Ossetian: Асуан
- Persian: اسوان
- Polish: Asuan
- Portuguese: Assuã
- Portuguese: Assuão
- Portuguese: Siena
- Portuguese: Syene
- Romanian: Assuan
- Romanian: Aswan
- Russian: Асван
- Russian: Ассуан
- Russian: Асуан
- Russian: Свенэ
- Russian: Сиена
- Russian: Суан
- Russian: Сун
- Scots: Aswan
- Serbian: Асуан
- Serbo-Croatian: Asuan
- Sicilian: Assuan
- Sinhala: අස්වාන්
- Slovak: Aswán
- Slovenian: Asuan
- South Azerbaijani: اسوان
- Spanish: Asuan
- Spanish: Asuán
- Swahili: Aswan
- Swedish: Assuan
- Tajik: Асвон
- Tamil: அசுவான்
- Tamil: அஸ்வான்
- Telugu: అస్వాన్
- Thai: อัสวาน
- Turkish: Asvan
- Uighur: ئەسۋان
- Ukrainian: Асуан
- Urdu: اسوان
- Uzbek: Asvon
- Venetian: Assuan
- Vietnamese: Aswan
- Waray (Philippines): Aswan
- Western Panjabi: اسوان
- Wu Chinese: 阿斯旺
- Yue Chinese: 阿斯旺
- Zulu: Aswan
- Aswân
- Es-Suan
- Syena
- Syeue
- الأقصر
Other Places Named Aswan
In the Area
- SyenaVillage
- Abd Al Aazim HassnTown
- Negm Al DinTown
- SiouVillage
- KotiVillage
- Al Sheikh Haroun HousingNeighbourhood
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