Lower Egypt
Lower Egypt is the northern part of Egypt, containing the Nile Delta, Cairo and Alexandria. It's not a defined region or province, just a convenient grouping for travel purposes, and with a high proportion of Egypt's top sights.Tap on the map to travel |
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Cairo
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Cairo is the capital of Egypt and, with a total population of Greater Cairo metropolitan area in excess of 16 million people, one of the largest cities in both Africa and the Middle East.
Alexandria
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Alexandria is Egypt's second largest city, its largest seaport, and the country's window onto the Mediterranean Sea.
Giza
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Picture yourself in Egypt and you picture this. Imagine Ancient Egypt and this is where your mind will land.
Destinations
Fayum
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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.
Port Said
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Port Said is Egypt's third largest city, its second largest seaport and the entry point of the Suez Canal by the Mediterranean.
Memphis
Memphis is the English name for the present-day site of one of the great ancient capital cities of Egypt.Ismailia
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Ismailia is a city in north-eastern Egypt. Situated on the west bank of the Suez Canal, it is the capital of the Ismailia Governorate.
Dumyat
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Damietta is a port city and the capital of the Damietta Governorate in Egypt.
Saqqara
Saqqara is the name given both to a village 32 km to the south of the Egyptian capital of Cairo and…El Alamein
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El Alamein is city on the north coast of Egypt, famous as the site of major battles between British and German forces during the Second World War.
Zagazig
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Zagazig is a city in Lower Egypt. Situated in the eastern part of the Nile delta, it is the capital of the governorate of Sharqia.
Tanta
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Tanta is a city in Egypt with the country's fifth largest populated area and 658,798 inhabitants as of 2018.
Mansoura
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Mansoura is a town in Lower Egypt. This Nile delta town is virtually unknown to tourists.
Damanhur
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31°02′10″N 30°28′10″E / 31.03611°N 30.46944°E Damanhur is a city in Lower Egypt, and the capital of the Beheira Governorate.
Rosetta
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Rosetta or Rashid is a port city of the Nile Delta, 65 km east of Alexandria, in Egypt's Beheira governorate.
Marsa Matruh
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31°21′N 27°14′E / 31.350°N 27.233°E Mersa Matruh, also transliterated as Marsa Matruh, is a port in Egypt and the capital of Matrouh Governorate.
Dahshur
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Dahshur is an Egyptian archaeological locality some 10 km to the south of Saqqara and therefore 35 km south of the Egyptian capital Cairo.
Abusir
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Abusir is the name given to an Egyptian archaeological locality on the desert plateau 10 km south of Giza and 8 km north of Saqqara.
Tell Basta
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Bubastis, also known in Arabic as Tell-Basta or in Egyptian as Per-Bast, was an ancient Egyptian city.
New Administrative Capital
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New Administrative Capital is current official name for the new capital of Egypt, 45 km east of Cairo in Lower Egypt.
Wadi El Natrun
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Wadi El Natrun is a valley in Lower Egypt. The valley contains several alkaline lakes, salt deposits, salt marshes and freshwater marshes.
Lisht
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Lisht or el-Lisht is an Egyptian village located south of Cairo.
Abu Kabir
Abu kabir is a city in the Sharqia Governorate of Egypt.Lower Egypt
- Type: Region
- Description: northernmost region of Egypt
- Location: Egypt, North Africa, Africa
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Latitude of centre
31° northLongitude of centre
31° eastElevation
5 metres (16 feet)GeoNames ID
352260Wikidata ID
Q463871Lower Egypt Satellite Map
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Also Known As
- Afrikaans: Benede-Egipte
- Arabic: Ubos nga Ehipto
- Arabic: مصر السفلى
- Azerbaijani: Aşağı Misir
- Basque: Behe Egipto
- Basque: Egipto Beherea
- Bosnian: Donji Egipat
- Breton: Egipt Izel
- Breton: Goueled Egipt
- Bulgarian: Долен Египет
- Catalan: Baix Egipte
- Catalan: Han.rememhit
- Catalan: Llista de ciutats del baix Egipte
- Chinese: 下埃及
- Croatian: Donji Egipat
- Czech: Dolní Egypt
- Dimli (individual language): Mısıro Cêrên
- Dutch: Beneden-Egypte
- Dutch: Neder-Egypte
- Egyptian Arabic: مصر السفلى
- Esperanto: Malalta Egiptio
- Finnish: Ala-Egypti
- French: Basse-Egypte
- French: Basse-Égypte
- French: Basse Egypte
- Galician: Baixo Exipto
- Georgian: ქვემო ეგვიპტე
- German: Unterägypten
- German: Unterägyptisch
- Greek: Κάτω Αίγυπτος
- Hebrew: מצרים התחתונה
- Hebrew: מצרים תחתית
- Hungarian: Alsó-Egyiptom
- Indonesian: Mesir Bawah
- Indonesian: Mesir Hilir
- Irish: An Éigipt Íochtarach
- Italian: Basso Egitto
- Japanese: 下エジプト
- Korean: 하이집트
- Latin: Aegyptus inferior
- Lithuanian: Žemutinis Egiptas
- Macedonian: Долен Египет
- Malagasy: Ejipta Ambany
- Malay: Mesir Bawah
- Malay: Mesir Hilir
- Norwegian: Nedre Egypt
- Norwegian Bokmål: Nedre Egypt
- Persian: مصر سفلی
- Polish: Dolny Egipt
- Portuguese: Baixo Egipto
- Portuguese: Baixo Egito
- Portuguese: Baixo Império Egípcio
- Romanian: Egiptul de Jos
- Russian: Багари
- Russian: Нижний Египет
- Serbian: Donji Egipat
- Serbian: Доњи Египат
- Serbo-Croatian: Donji Egipat
- Sinhala: පහළ ඊජිප්තුව
- Slovenian: Spodnji Egipt
- Spanish: Bajo Egipto
- Swedish: Nedre Egypten
- Tamil: கீழ் எகிப்து
- Thai: อียิปต์ล่าง
- Turkish: Aşağı Mısır
- Ukrainian: Нижній Єгипет
- Urdu: زیریں مصر
- Venetian: Baso Ezito
- Vietnamese: Hạ Ai Cập
- Waray (Philippines): Ubos nga Ehipto
- Welsh: Yr Aifft Isel
- Yue Chinese: 下埃及
- Al Wajh al Baḩrī
- El Masr el Bahari
- Er-Rif
- Mişr Baḩr
- Wagh-el-Bahri
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About Mapcarta. Thanks to Mapbox for providing amazing maps. 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 Lower Egypt. Photo: Pentaur, Public domain.