Fayum
Faiyum is a city in Middle Egypt. Located 100 kilometres southwest of Cairo, in the Faiyum Oasis, it is the capital of the modern Faiyum Governorate. Originally called Shedet in Egyptian, the Greeks called it in Koinē Greek: Κροκοδειλόπολις, romanized: Krokodilópolis, and later Medieval Greek: Ἀρσινόη, romanized: Arsinoë.Photo: RolandUnger, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Photo: Yash8496, CC BY-SA 4.0.
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Wādī al-Ḥītān is a paleontological site in the Faiyum Governorate of Egypt, some 150 kilometres south-west of Cairo.
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Al-Fayoum Stadium
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Fayum
- Type: City with 306,000 residents
- Description: city in Egypt
- Categories: big city and locality
- Location: Faiyum Governorate, Lower Egypt, Egypt, North Africa, Africa
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Latitude
29.3074° or 29° 18' 27" northLongitude
30.84° or 30° 50' 24" eastPopulation
306,000Elevation
29 metres (95 feet)United Nations Location Code
EG IYMOpen Location Code
7GXG8R4Q+XXOpenStreetMap ID
node 768555545OpenStreetMap Feature
place=cityGeoNames ID
361320Wikidata ID
Q203299Fayum Satellite Map
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Also Known As
- Abkhazian: Fayyum
- Ancient Greek (to 1453): Κροκοδείλων Πόλις
- Ancient Greek (to 1453): Κροκοδειλόπολις
- Arabic: Faiyum
- Arabic: الفيوم
- Arabic: كيمان فارس
- Arabic: محافظة الفيوم
- Arabic: مدينة الفيوم
- Armenian: Էլ Ֆայում
- Armenian: Ֆայյում
- Armenian: Ֆայում
- Asturian: Faiyum
- Azerbaijani: Əl-Fəyyum
- Basque: Faiyum
- Belarusian: Фаюм
- Belarusian: Эль-Фаюм
- Bengali: ফাইইয়োম
- Bengali: ফাইয়ুম
- Bhojpuri: फय्यूम
- Bulgarian: Фаюм
- Catalan: Arsinoe
- Catalan: Cocodrilòpolis
- Catalan: Crocodilòpolis
- Catalan: El Faium
- Catalan: Faium
- Catalan: Fayium
- Catalan: Krokodilopolis
- Catalan: Madinat al-Fayyum
- Catalan: Shedet
- Cebuano: Al Fayyūm
- Chinese: 法尤姆
- Croatian: Al Faiyum
- Croatian: Al Fayyum
- Czech: Fajjúm
- Czech: Fajúm
- Danish: Al Fayyum
- Danish: Fayyum
- Dutch: El-Fajoem
- Dutch: El Faiyum
- Dutch: El Faiyûm
- Dutch: Medinet-el-Fajoem
- Egyptian Arabic: الفيوم
- English: Al Fayyum
- English: Faiyum
- Esperanto: Faijumo
- Esperanto: Faiyum
- Esperanto: Fajumo
- Esperanto: Madinat al-Fajum
- Estonian: Al-Fayyum
- Estonian: Al-Fayyūm
- Estonian: Faijum
- Finnish: Al-Fayyum
- Finnish: Al Fayum
- Finnish: Al Fayyum
- Finnish: El Fayum
- Finnish: Faijum
- French: Fayoum
- French: Médinet el-Fayoum
- Georgian: ელ-ფაიუმი
- Georgian: ფაიუმი
- German: Al-Fayyum
- German: Al-Fayyūm
- German: Faiyūm
- German: Fajjum
- German: Fajum
- German: Fayyum
- German: Krokodilopolis
- German: Madinat al-Fayyum
- German: Madīnat al-Faiyūm
- German: al-Fayyūm
- Greek: Φαγιούμ
- Gujarati: ફેઇયમ
- Hebrew: פאיום
- Hebrew: פיום
- Hindi: फयूम
- Hindi: फेयुम
- Hindi: फैयूम
- Hungarian: Fajjúm
- Indonesian: Al Fayyum
- Indonesian: Faiyum
- Irish: Fayyum
- Italian: El Fayum
- Italian: Faiyum
- Italian: Fayoum
- Italian: Fayum
- Italian: Fayyum
- Japanese: ファイユーム
- Kabyle: Fayyum
- Kannada: ಫಯ್ಯಮ್
- Korean: 파이윰
- Latin: Crocodilopolis
- Latvian: Fajuma
- Lithuanian: Fajumas
- Lithuanian: Krokodilopolis
- Lithuanian: Šedet
- Malay: Faiyum
- Marathi: फेय्यूम
- Norwegian: Faiyum
- Norwegian Bokmål: Faiyum
- Persian: استان فیوم
- Persian: فیوم
- Polish: Fajum
- Polish: Madinat al-Fajum
- Polish: Medinet el-Fajum
- Portuguese: El Faiyûm
- Portuguese: Faium
- Portuguese: Faiyum
- Portuguese: Fayum
- Portuguese: Fayyum
- Portuguese: Retrato de Fayum
- Romanian: Al Fayyum
- Russian: Аль-Фаюм
- Russian: Файюм
- Russian: Фаюм
- Russian: Эль-Файюм
- Scots: Al Fayyum
- Scots: Faiyum
- Serbian: Fajum
- Serbian: Фајум
- Serbian: الفيوم
- Serbo-Croatian: Al Fayyum
- Serbo-Croatian: Faiyum
- Serbo-Croatian: Fajum
- Serbo-Croatian: Fayum
- Serbo-Croatian: Fayyum
- Sinhala: ෆයිඋම්
- Sinhala: ෆායිඋම්
- Slovak: Fajjúm
- Slovenian: Fajum
- South Azerbaijani: فیوم
- Spanish: El-Fayum
- Spanish: Fayun
- Spanish: Fayún
- Spanish: Medinet el-Fayum
- Swedish: Faijum
- Swedish: Fayoum
- Tajik: Ал-Файюм
- Tamil: எதையும்
- Tamil: பாயும்
- Tamil: பையூம்
- Telugu: ఫాయుమ్
- Thai: ฟัยยูม
- Thai: อัลฟัยยูม
- Turkish: Fayyum
- Turkish: Feyyum
- Ukrainian: Фаюм
- Urdu: فیوم
- Uzbek: Fayyum
- Venetian: Fayyum
- Vietnamese: Faiyum
- Waray (Philippines): Al Fayyum
- Waray (Philippines): Faiyum
- Welsh: Faiyum
- Wu Chinese: 法尤姆
- Zulu: Faiyum
- Arsinoë
- Fayoom
- Fayyoum
- Madīnet el Faiyūm
- Medinat Fayum
- Médinat el-Fayoum
- Shedit
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