West Bank
The West Bank of Luxor in Egypt is also the gateway to the amazing Valley of the Kings, and a string of pharaonic mortuary temples vies with the richly-decorated Tombs of the Nobles and the workmen's village, Deir el-Medineh, for the visitors’ attention.Photo: MatthiasKabel, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Notable Places in the Area
Memnon Statue
Photo: MusikAnimal, CC BY-SA 4.0.
The Colossi of Memnon are two massive stone statues of the Pharaoh Amenhotep III, which stand at the front of the ruined Mortuary Temple of Amenhotep III, the largest temple in the Theban Necropolis.
West Bank
- Type: Archaeological site
- Description: area in Egypt, west of the Nile near Thebes
- Categories: region, necropolis, historic site, tourist attraction and tourism
- Location: New Valley Governorate, Egypt, North Africa, Africa
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
25.70571° or 25° 42' 21" northLongitude
32.61171° or 32° 36' 42" eastElevation
227 metres (745 feet)Open Location Code
7GQJPJ46+7MOpenStreetMap ID
way 1078995980OpenStreetMap Feature
historic=archaeological_siteGeoNames ID
347341Wikidata ID
Q29223West Bank Satellite Map
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Also Known As
- Afrikaans: Thebaanse Dodeakker
- Arabic: مدينة طيبة الجنائزية
- Azerbaijani: Teben nekropolu
- Belarusian: Тэбскі нэкропаль
- Belarusian: Фіванскі некропаль
- Catalan: Necròpolis tebana
- Catalan: necròpolis tebana
- Cebuano: Necropolis of Thebes
- Chinese: 底比斯墓地群
- Croatian: Tebanske nekropole
- Czech: Thébská nekropole
- Dutch: Oude stad Thebe met haar necropolis
- Egyptian Arabic: مدينة طيبه الجنائزيه
- English: Necropolis of Thebes
- English: Theban Necropolis
- English: Western Thebes
- Esperanto: Nekropolo de Tebo
- Finnish: Theban nekropoli
- French: Necropole thebaine
- French: Nécropole thébaine
- French: nécropole thébaine
- Galician: Necrópole de Tebas
- Georgian: თებეს ნეკროპოლისი
- German: Thebanische Nekropole
- German: Theben-West
- Greek: Νεκρόπολη των Θηβών
- Hausa: Theban Necropolis
- Hebrew: הנקרופוליס של תבאי
- Hebrew: נקרופוליס של תבאי
- Hindi: थेबान कब्रिस्तान
- Indonesian: Nekropolis Thebes
- Italian: necropoli di Tebe
- Japanese: テーベのネクロポリス
- Korean: 테베 네크로폴리스
- Lithuanian: Tėbų nekropolis
- Malay: Nekropolis Thebes
- Polish: Teby Zachodnie
- Portuguese: Margem Oeste
- Portuguese: Necrópole de Tebas
- Portuguese: Necrópole tebana
- Portuguese: Tebas Antiga e a sua Necrópole
- Portuguese: Tebas Antiga e sua Necrópole
- Russian: Фиванский некрополь
- Serbian: Некропола у Теби
- Serbo-Croatian: Tebanske nekropole
- Slovenian: Tebanska nekropola
- Spanish: Necropolis tebana
- Spanish: Necrópolis de Tebas
- Spanish: Necrópolis tebana
- Swedish: Necropolis of Thebes
- Turkish: Teb Nekropolü
- Ukrainian: Фіванський некрополь
- Venetian: necròpułi de Tebe
- Vietnamese: Khu lăng mộ Thebes
- Necropoli di Tebe
Other Places Named West Bank
Localities in the Area
- Al Baairat VillageVillage
- Al QurnaVillage
- Izbat al Hajjah DuwahVillage
- Al Aqaltah VillageVillage
- Al AqalitahVillage, 2½ km south
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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 West Bank. Photo: MatthiasKabel, CC BY-SA 3.0.