Giza
Picture yourself in Egypt and you picture this. Imagine Ancient Egypt and this is where your mind will land. Here is Giza, the city just west of Cairo, where on a desert plateau stand the Pyramids, Sphinx and royal tombs of the pharaohs. The Pyramids of Giza…Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Photo: Maveric149, CC BY-SA 3.0.
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Giza
- Type: City with 2,680,000 residents
- Description: City in Egypt
- Categories: tourist destination and locality
- Location: Giza Governorate, Egypt, North Africa, Africa
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
29.98708° or 29° 59' 14" northLongitude
31.21181° or 31° 12' 43" eastPopulation
2,680,000Elevation
19 metres (62 feet)IATA airport code
SPXUnited Nations Location Code
EG AGZOpen Location Code
7GXHX6P6+RPOpenStreetMap ID
node 27565120OpenStreetMap Feature
place=cityGeoNames ID
360995Wikidata ID
Q81788Giza Satellite Map
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Also Known As
- Afrikaans: Giza
- Afrikaans: Gizeh
- Albanian: Giza
- Arabic: Giza
- Arabic: الجيزة
- Arabic: مدينة الجيزة
- Arabic: مدينه الجيزه
- Armenian: Գիզա
- Asturian: Giza
- Asturian: Gizeh
- Asturian: Guiza
- Azerbaijani: Cizə
- Basque: Giza
- Belarusian: Гіза
- Belarusian: Эль-Гіза
- Belarusian: Эль-Джыза
- Bengali: গিজা
- Bosnian: Giza
- Breton: Gizah
- Breton: Gizeh
- Bulgarian: Гиза
- Catalan: Giza
- Catalan: Gizeh
- Catalan: Guiza
- Catalan: Hernecher
- Catalan: Imentet
- Cebuano: Al Jīzah
- Central Kurdish: گیزە
- Chechen: ЖизахӀ
- Chinese: Giza
- Chinese: 吉札
- Chinese: 吉萨/吉薩
- Chinese: 吉萨
- Chinese: 吉薩
- Chinese: 基沙
- Chinese: 基泽
- Chinese: 基萨
- Chuvash: Гиза
- Croatian: Giza
- Czech: Gíza
- Danish: Giza
- Danish: Gizeh
- Dutch: Giza
- Dutch: Gizeh (stad)
- Dutch: Gizeh
- Egyptian Arabic: الجيزة
- Egyptian Arabic: مدينه الجيزة
- English: Ghizeh
- English: Gizeh
- Esperanto: Giza
- Esperanto: Gizeh
- Esperanto: Gizo
- Estonian: Al-Jizah
- Estonian: Al-Jīzah
- Estonian: Giza
- Finnish: Giza
- French: Giza
- French: Gizeh
- French: Gizhe
- French: Gizèh
- French: Guizèh
- French: Guizé
- French: Gîza
- Galician: Giza
- Galician: Gizeh
- Georgian: გიზა
- German: Al-Dschiza
- German: Giseh
- German: Gize
- German: Gizeh
- German: Gîza
- German: Gīza
- German: al-Gīza
- Greek: Γκίζα
- Gujarati: ગિઝા
- Hebrew: גיזה
- Hindi: गीज़ा
- Hungarian: Gíza
- Ido: Giza
- Indonesian: Giza
- Interlingua: Giza
- Interlingue: Giza
- Irish: Giza
- Italian: Giza
- Italian: Gizeh
- Italian: Piana di Giza
- Japanese: ギザ
- Japanese: ギゼ
- Japanese: ギーザ
- Kabyle: Tizumag
- Kalaallisut: Giza
- Kannada: ಗೀಜ಼
- Kannada: ಗೀಝ
- Kirghiz: Гиза
- Korean: 기자
- Korean: 기제
- Latin: Giza
- Latin: Gizeh
- Latvian: Giza
- Latvian: Gīza
- Lithuanian: Giza
- Low German: Piramides van Giza
- Low German: Pyramides van Giza
- Macedonian: Гиза
- Malagasy: Giza
- Malay: Giza
- Malay: جيزة
- Maltese: Giza
- Manipuri: ꯒꯤꯓꯥ
- Marathi: गिझा
- Min Nan Chinese: Giza
- Mingrelian: გიზა
- Mongolian: Гиза
- Mongolian: Гиза хот
- Mongolian: ꯒꯤꯓꯥ
- Nauru: Giza
- Neapolitan: Giza
- Norwegian: Giza
- Norwegian Bokmål: Giza
- Norwegian Nynorsk: Gisa
- Norwegian Nynorsk: Giza
- Norwegian Nynorsk: Gizah
- Norwegian Nynorsk: Gizeh
- Occitan (post 1500): Giza
- Occitan (post 1500): Gizeh
- Ossetian: Эль-Гизæ
- Panjabi: ਜੀਜ਼ਾ
- Persian: جیزا
- Persian: جیزه
- Polish: Al-Dżiza
- Polish: Giza
- Portuguese: Giza
- Portuguese: Gizé
- Romanian: Giza
- Romanian: Gizeh
- Russian: Гиза
- Russian: Эль-Гиза
- Scots: Giza
- Serbian: Al-ǧīzah
- Serbian: Eg-Gīza
- Serbian: Geezeh
- Serbian: Ghizeh
- Serbian: Gizeh
- Serbian: Гиза
- Serbo-Croatian: Giza
- Silesian: Giza
- Sinhala: ගීසා
- Slovak: Al-Džíza
- Slovak: Gíza
- Slovenian: Giza
- Slovenian: Gizeh
- South Azerbaijani: جیزه
- Spanish: Ghizeh
- Spanish: Giza
- Spanish: Gizeh
- Spanish: Guiza
- Swahili: Giza
- Swedish: Al-Jizah
- Swedish: Al Jizah
- Swedish: Al Jīzah
- Swedish: El-Giza
- Swedish: Gisa
- Swedish: Gise
- Swedish: Giza
- Swedish: Gizah
- Swedish: Gizeh
- Tajik: Ҷиза
- Tamil: கிசா
- Tamil: கீசா
- Telugu: గిజ
- Thai: Giza
- Thai: กีซา
- Thai: กีซ่า
- Thai: อัลจีซะห์
- Thai: เอลกีซา
- Turkish: Giza
- Turkish: Gize
- Twi: Giza
- Uighur: جىزە
- Ukrainian: Гіза
- Ukrainian: Ель-Гіза
- Ukrainian: Ґіза
- Urdu: جیزہ
- Uzbek: Giza
- Uzbek: Gʻizo
- Veps: Giz
- Vietnamese: Giza
- Vietnamese: Gizeh
- Waray (Philippines): Giza
- Welsh: Giza
- Western Armenian: Կիզա
- Western Frisian: Gizeh
- Western Panjabi: جیزہ
- Western Panjabi: غیزہ
- Wu Chinese: 吉萨
- Yue Chinese: 吉薩
- Zulu: Giza
- El-Gîza
- El Gizeh
- ಗೀಜ
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About Mapcarta. Thanks to Mapbox for providing amazing maps. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License. Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, excluding photos, directions and the map. Description text is based on the Wikivoyage page Giza. Photo: Maveric149, CC BY-SA 3.0.