Tahta
Tahta is a city in the Sohag Governorate of Upper Egypt. It is located on the west bank of the Nile in an area known for its agricultural richness. Tahta had a population of 85,528 at the 2017 census.- Type: Town with 134,000 residents
- Description: Egyptian city
- Also known as: “Tahta City”
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Bani Ammar.
Bani Ammar
Village
Bani Ammar is a village located near Tahta-Sohag; south-western between Banhau and El-Sawamaa Gharb to the east and Enibis to west. The inhabitants are mainly working in traditional agricultural activities. Bani Ammar is situated 4½ km southeast of Tahta.
Tahta
- Categories: human settlement and locality
- Location: Sohag Governorate, Egypt, North Africa, Africa
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Latitude
26.7612° or 26° 45′ 40″ north
Longitude
31.4852° or 31° 29′ 7″ east
Population
134,000
Elevation
66 metres (217 feet)
Open location code
7GRHQF6P+F3
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
place=town
GeoNames ID
Wikidata ID
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Zulu—“Tahta” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “طهطا”
- Arabic: “مدينه طهطا”
- Catalan: “Tahta”
- Cebuano: “Ţahţā”
- Chinese: “泰赫塔”
- Dutch: “Tahta”
- Egyptian Arabic: “طهطا”
- Esperanto: “Tahta”
- French: “Tahta”
- Georgian: “ტაჰტა”
- German: “Tahta”
- Greek: “Τάχτα”
- Hebrew: “טהטא”
- Hindi: “तहता”
- Indonesian: “Tahta, Mesir”
- Irish: “Tahta”
- Japanese: “タハタ”
- Kazakh: “Тахта қаласы”
- Malagasy: “Ţahţā”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Tahta”
- Norwegian: “Tahta”
- Persian: “طهطا”
- Polish: “Tahta”
- Russian: “Тахта”
- Scots: “Tahta”
- South Azerbaijani: “طهطا”
- Spanish: “Ṭahṭā”
- Swedish: “Tahta”
- Tajik: “Таҳто”
- Turkish: “Tahta, Mısır”
- Turkish: “Tahta, Sevhac”
- Turkish: “Tahta”
- Zulu: “Tahta”
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