Rosetta
Rosetta or Rashid is a port city of the Nile Delta, 65 km east of Alexandria, in Egypt's Beheira governorate. The Rosetta Stone was discovered there in 1799.Photo: RolandUnger, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Rosetta
- Type: Town with 68,900 residents
- Description: city in Egypt
- Categories: city and locality
- Location: Beheira, Lower Egypt, Egypt, North Africa, Africa
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Latitude
31.4044° or 31° 24' 16" northLongitude
30.4164° or 30° 24' 59" eastPopulation
68,900Elevation
15 metres (49 feet)United Nations Location Code
EG PRAOpen Location Code
8G3GCC38+QHOpenStreetMap ID
node 768815269OpenStreetMap Feature
place=townGeoNames ID
350203Wikidata ID
Q243699Rosetta Satellite Map
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Also Known As
- Afrikaans: Rosetta, Egipte
- Arabic: Rosetta
- Arabic: رشيد
- Arabic: مدينة رشيد
- Asturian: Rosetta
- Basque: Rasid
- Basque: Raxid
- Basque: Rosetta
- Bulgarian: Розета
- Bulgarian: Росета
- Catalan: Rashid
- Catalan: Rosetta
- Catalan: Rossetta
- Cebuano: Rosetta
- Chinese: 罗塞塔
- Chinese: 羅塞塔
- Croatian: Rozeta
- Dutch: Rosetta (Egypte)
- Dutch: Rosetta
- Dutch: Rosette
- Egyptian Arabic: رشيد
- English: Bolbitine
- English: Bolbythia
- English: Rashid
- Esperanto: Rachid
- Esperanto: Raŝido
- Estonian: Rashid
- Estonian: Rashīd
- Estonian: Rosetta
- Finnish: Rosetta
- French: Rachid
- French: Rachïd
- French: Rosetta
- French: Rosette
- Georgian: რაშიდი
- German: Raschîd
- German: Raschīd
- German: Rosetta
- German: Rosette
- Greek: Ροζέτα
- Hebrew: רשיד
- Hungarian: Rosetta
- Icelandic: Rosetta
- Indonesian: Rachid
- Indonesian: Rashid
- Indonesian: Rasyid
- Indonesian: Rosetta
- Irish: Rosetta
- Italian: Rosetta
- Japanese: ロゼッタ (エジプト)
- Japanese: ロゼッタ
- Javanese: Rosetta
- Korean: 로제타
- Latin: Rosetta
- Malagasy: Rosetta
- Malay: Rasyid
- Norwegian: Rosetta
- Norwegian Bokmål: Rosetta
- Persian: رشید
- Polish: Rosetta
- Portuguese: Roseta
- Russian: Рашид
- Russian: Розетта
- Serbian: Rozeta
- Serbian: Розета
- Serbian: رشيد
- Serbo-Croatian: Rašid
- Slovak: Ar-Rašíd
- Slovenian: Rosetta
- Spanish: Rashid
- Spanish: Rosetta
- Swedish: Rosetta, Egypten
- Swedish: Rosetta
- Turkish: Reşid
- Turkish: Reşit
- Turkish: Rosetta
- Ukrainian: Рашид
- Urdu: رشيد
- Waray (Philippines): Rosetta
- Wu Chinese: 罗塞塔
- Zulu: Rosetta
- Er-Rashid
- Rashîd
- Rasyid, Mesir
- Rosetta, Rosetta, Al Rashid, Rashid
Other Places Named Rosetta
In the Area
Rosetta is situated close to the neighbourhood Al Zohor Housing and the village Al Busayli.
- Rashid CityNeighbourhood, 3½ km west
- Idko CityNeighbourhood, 13 km southwest
- Ibyanah VillageNeighbourhood, 14 km southeast
- Meniat Al Morshed VillageNeighbourhood, 15 km east
- Al Aameriyah Al SharqiaVillage, 15 km southeast
- EdkuTown, 16 km southwest
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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 Wikipdia page Rosetta. Photo: RolandUnger, CC BY-SA 3.0.