Upper Egypt
Upper Egypt is a region of the Nile Valley in Egypt, between Luxor and Aswan and the historical region of Lower Nubia, characterised by a number of ancient settlements and temple towns that draw thousands of travellers every year.Tap on the map to travel |
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Luxor
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Luxor is a city in Upper Egypt, which includes the site of the Ancient Egyptian city of Thebes.
Aswan
Aswan is the southernmost city of Egypt, some 870 km south of Cairo, just below the Aswan Dam and Lake Nasser, with a population of 275,000.Abu Simbel
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Abu Simbel in Upper Egypt was saved from the rising waters of Lake Nasser, growing behind the Aswan Dam, in a massive archaeological rescue plan sponsored by UNESCO in the 1960s.
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Edfu
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Edfu is an Egyptian city, located on the west bank of the Nile River between Esna and Aswan, with a population of approximately 60,000 people.
Esna
Esna is an Egyptian town in the region of Upper Egypt, located on the west bank of the river Nile some 54 km south of Luxor and 53 km north of Edfu.Kom Ombo
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Kom Ombo is an agricultural town in Egypt famous for the Temple of Kom Ombo.
Silsila
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Silsila is an Egyptian locality - a range of sandstone hills - in the region of Upper Egypt, located on the river Nile some 42 km south of Edfu, alomost immediately north of Kom Ombo and some 65 km north of Aswan.
Upper Egypt
- Type: Region
- Description: strip of land on the Nile valley between Nubia and Lower Egypt
- Categories: historical country and locality
- Location: Egypt, North Africa, Africa
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Latitude of centre
22.4167° or 22° 25' northLongitude of centre
31.75° or 31° 45' eastElevation
115 metres (377 feet)OpenStreetMap ID
node 768583143OpenStreetMap Feature
place=regionGeoNames ID
359888Wikidata ID
Q203751Upper Egypt Satellite Map
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Also Known As
- Afrikaans: Bo-Egipte
- Arabic: Taas nga Ehipto
- Arabic: الصعيد
- Arabic: الصعيدي
- Arabic: الوجة القبلى
- Arabic: الوجه القبلي
- Arabic: صعيد
- Arabic: صعيد مصر
- Arabic: مصر العليا
- Arabic: وجه القبلي
- Azerbaijani: Yuxarı Misir
- Basque: Egipto Garaia
- Basque: Goi Egipto
- Bengali: উচ্চ মিশর
- Bosnian: Gornji Egipat
- Breton: Egipt Uhel
- Breton: Gorre Egipt
- Bulgarian: Горен Египет
- Catalan: Alt Egipte
- Catalan: Han.remmaris
- Catalan: Llista de ciutats de l'Alt Egipte
- Chinese: 上埃及
- Croatian: Gornji Egipat
- Czech: Horní Egypt
- Danish: Øvre Egypten
- Dimli (individual language): Mısıro Corên
- Dutch: Boven-Egypte
- Dutch: Opper-Egypte
- Egyptian Arabic: الصعيد
- Egyptian Arabic: صعيد
- Egyptian Arabic: صعيد مصر
- Egyptian Arabic: مصر العليا
- Esperanto: Alta Egiptio
- Estonian: Ülem-Egiptus
- Finnish: Ylä-Egypti
- French: Haute-Egypte
- French: Haute-Égypte
- French: Upper Egypt
- Galician: Alto Exipto
- Georgian: ზემო ეგვიპტე
- German: Oberägypten
- German: Oberägyptisch
- German: Upper Egypt
- Greek: Άνω Αίγυπτος
- Hebrew: מצרים העליונה
- Hebrew: מצרים עילית
- Hindi: उपरी मिस्र
- Hungarian: Felső-Egyiptom
- Icelandic: Efra Egyptaland
- Indonesian: Mesir Atas
- Indonesian: Mesir Hulu
- Irish: An Éigipt Uachtarach
- Italian: Alto Egitto
- Japanese: 上エジプト
- Korean: 상이집트
- Latin: Aegyptus superior
- Lithuanian: Aukštutinis Egiptas
- Macedonian: Горен Египет
- Malagasy: Ejipta Ambony
- Malay: Mesir Atas
- Malay: Mesir Hulu
- Norwegian: Øvre Egypt
- Norwegian Bokmål: Øvre Egypt
- Norwegian Nynorsk: Sa'id Misr
- Norwegian Nynorsk: Øvre Egypt
- Occitan (post 1500): Nauta Egipte
- Persian: مصر علیا
- Polish: Górny Egipt
- Portuguese: Alto Egipto
- Portuguese: Alto Egito
- Romanian: Egiptul de Sus
- Russian: Верхний Египет
- Russian: Патрос
- Serbian: Gornji Egipat
- Serbian: Горњи Египат
- Serbo-Croatian: Gornji Egipat
- Sindhi: مٿانهين مصر
- Slovenian: Gornji Egipt
- Slovenian: Zgornji Egipt
- Spanish: Alto Egipto
- Swedish: Övre Egypten
- Tamil: மேல் எகிப்து
- Thai: อียิปต์บน
- Turkish: Yukarı Mısır
- Ukrainian: Верхній Єгипет
- Urdu: بالائی مصر
- Venetian: Alto Ezito
- Vietnamese: Thượng Ai Cập
- Waray (Philippines): Taas nga Ehipto
- Western Panjabi: بالائی مصر
- Yue Chinese: 上埃及
- Aş Şa‘īd
- El-Said
- Es Sa‘id
- Upper Egypt, Upper Egypt
- Şa‘īd Mişr
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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 Upper Egypt. Photo: Francisco Anzola, CC BY 2.0.