Luxor
Luxor is a city in Upper Egypt, which includes the site of the Ancient Egyptian city of Thebes. Luxor had a population of 1,333,309 in 2020, with an area of approximately 417 km2 and is the capital of the Luxor Governorate.Photo: Blalonde, Public domain.
Popular Destinations
Valley of the Kings
The Valley of the Kings is an Egyptian archaeological locality in the hills immediately behind the West Bank of Luxor.West Bank
Photo: MatthiasKabel, CC BY-SA 3.0.
The West Bank of Luxor in Egypt is also the gateway to the amazing Valley of the Kings, and…
East Bank
Photo: Belmahdy, CC BY-SA 4.0.
The East Bank of Luxor is the central part of Luxor township, centred on the twin foci of the Temple of Luxor and the Temple of Karnak.
Notable Places in the Area
Luxor Temple
Photo: Ad Meskens, CC BY-SA 3.0.
The Luxor Temple is a large Ancient Egyptian temple complex located on the east bank of the Nile River in the city today known as Luxor and was constructed approximately 1400 BCE.
White Chapel
The White Chapel of pharaoh Senusret I, also referred to as the Jubilee Chapel of Senusret I, was built during the Middle Kingdom of Egypt.Avenue of Sphinxes
Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Avenue of Sphinxes or The King's Festivities Road, also known as Rams Road is a 2.7 km long avenue…
Localities in the Area
El-Assasif
Photo: RolandUnger, CC BY-SA 3.0.
El-Assasif is a necropolis near Luxor on the West Bank at Thebes, Egypt, Upper Egypt.
Luxor
- Type: City with 451,000 residents
- Description: city in Egypt
- Categories: tourist attraction, big city and locality
- Location: Luxor Governorate, Upper Egypt, Egypt, North Africa, Africa
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
25.7021° or 25° 42' 8" northLongitude
32.6472° or 32° 38' 50" eastPopulation
451,000Elevation
89 metres (292 feet)IATA airport code
LXRUnited Nations Location Code
EG LXROpen Location Code
7GQJPJ2W+RVOpenStreetMap ID
node 1667671370OpenStreetMap Feature
place=cityGeoNames ID
360502Wikidata ID
Q130514Luxor Satellite Map
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Also Known As
- Abkhazian: Luqṣur
- Afrikaans: Luxor
- Arabic: Luxor
- Arabic: أقصر
- Arabic: اثار الاقصر
- Arabic: الأقصر
- Arabic: الاقصر
- Arabic: مدينة الأقصر
- Armenian: Լուքսոր
- Asturian: Luxor
- Azerbaijani: Əl-Üqsür
- Azerbaijani: əl-Üqsür
- Basque: Luxor
- Belarusian: Луксор
- Belarusian: Люксор
- Belarusian: Эль-Юксор
- Bengali: লুক্সোর
- Bengali: লোক্সো
- Bulgarian: Луксор
- Burmese: လူ့က်ဆော်မြို့
- Catalan: Al-Uksur
- Catalan: Al-Uqsur
- Catalan: Diòspolis Magna
- Catalan: Luxor
- Catalan: Thebai
- Cebuano: Luxor
- Chinese: Thebes
- Chinese: 勒克索
- Chinese: 勒克蘇
- Chinese: 卢克什
- Chinese: 卢克索
- Chinese: 卢克索尔
- Chinese: 樂蜀
- Chinese: 盧克索
- Chinese: 路克索
- Croatian: Luksor
- Croatian: Luxor
- Czech: Luxor
- Danish: Luxor
- Dutch: Luxor
- Egyptian Arabic: الأقصر
- Egyptian Arabic: الاقصر
- Egyptian Arabic: لؤصر
- Egyptian Arabic: لقصر
- Esperanto: Luksoro
- Estonian: Luxor
- Finnish: Al-Uqsur
- Finnish: Luksor
- Finnish: Luxor
- French: Louksor
- French: Louqsor
- French: Louxor
- French: Luxor
- Galician: Luxor- الأقصر
- Galician: Luxor
- Georgian: ლუქსორი
- German: Al-Uqsur
- German: Luxor
- Greek: Λούξορ
- Gujarati: લક્સર
- Hausa: Luxor
- Hebrew: לוקסור
- Hindi: लक्सर
- Hungarian: Luxor
- Icelandic: Lúxor
- Igbo: Luxor
- Indonesian: Luxor
- Irish: Lucsar
- Italian: Luxor
- Japanese: ルクソル
- Japanese: ルクソール
- Javanese: Luxor
- Kabyle: Luqṣur
- Kalaallisut: Luxor
- Kannada: ಲಕ್ಸಾರ್
- Kirghiz: Луксор шаары
- Korean: 룩소르
- Kurdish: Lûksor
- Latvian: Luksora
- Lithuanian: Luksoras
- Macedonian: Луксор
- Malagasy: Luxor
- Malay: Luxor
- Maltese: Luxor
- Marathi: लुक्सोर
- Mingrelian: ლუქსორი
- Nepali: लुक्सर
- Northern Luri: اقصر
- Norwegian: Luxor
- Norwegian Bokmål: Luxor
- Norwegian Nynorsk: Luxor
- Occitan (post 1500): Loxòr
- Ossetian: Луксор
- Panjabi: ਲਕਸਰ
- Persian: اقصر
- Persian: الاقصر
- Polish: Al-Uksur
- Polish: Luksor
- Polish: Luxor
- Portuguese: Luxor
- Portuguese: Lúxor
- Quechua: Al Uqsur
- Quechua: Luxor
- Romanian: Luxor
- Russian: Луксор
- Scots: Luxor
- Serbian: Luksor
- Serbian: Луксор
- Serbian: الأقصر
- Serbo-Croatian: Luksor
- Serbo-Croatian: Luxor
- Silesian: Luksor
- Sinhala: ලක්සර්
- Sinhala: ලක්සොර්
- Slovak: Luxor
- Slovenian: Luksor
- South Azerbaijani: اقصر
- Spanish: Al-Uqsur
- Spanish: Al Uqsur
- Spanish: Luxor
- Spanish: Lúxor
- Swahili: Luxor
- Swedish: Al-Uqsur
- Swedish: Al Uqsur
- Swedish: Luxor
- Tagalog: Al-Uqsur
- Tagalog: Al-Uqṣur
- Tagalog: Luxar
- Tagalog: Luxer
- Tagalog: Luxor
- Tajik: Ал-Уқсур
- Tajik: ал-Уқсур
- Tamil: அல்-உக்சுர்
- Tamil: லக்சோர்
- Tamil: லுஸோர்
- Tatar: Әлөкъсер
- Telugu: లగ్సర్
- Thai: ลักซอร์
- Turkish: El-Uksur
- Turkish: Luksor
- Turkish: Uksur
- Twi: Luxor
- Ukrainian: Луксор
- Urdu: اقصر
- Urdu: الاقصر
- Uzbek: Al-Uqsur
- Uzbek: al-Uqsur
- Venetian: Luxor
- Vietnamese: Louxor
- Vietnamese: Luxor
- Waray (Philippines): Luxor
- Welsh: Luxor
- Western Panjabi: لکسر
- Wu Chinese: 卢克索
- Yue Chinese: 樂蜀
- Zeeuws: Luxor
- Zulu: Luxor
- Al Uqsur (Luxor)
- El-Aksur
- El Aqsur
- El Kusur
- El Qusur
- El Uqsor
- Luqsor
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