Qus
Qus is a city in the modern Qena Governorate, Egypt, located on the east bank of the Nile. Qus has about 60,100 residents.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Town with 60,100 residents
- Description: town in Egypt
- Also known as: “Apollonopolis Parva”, “Qous”, “Qūş”, and “QŪṢ”
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Naqada and Shunhur.
Naqada
Village
Naqada is a town on the west bank of the Nile in Qena Governorate, Egypt, situated ca. 20 km north of Luxor. It includes the villages of Tukh, Khatara, Danfiq, and Zawayda. Naqada is situated 4 km west of Qus.
Shunhur
Village
Photo: RolandUnger, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Shanhūr is a village in Qus in Egypt, with a population of 13,432 people. There are 6,380 men and 7,052 women. At the edge of the village are the ruins of a Roman era temple built during the first century AD. Shunhur is situated 6 km south of Qus.
Qus
- Categories: city and locality
- Location: Qena Governorate, Egypt, North Africa, Africa
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Latitude
25.9157° or 25° 54′ 56″ northLongitude
32.763° or 32° 45′ 47″ eastPopulation
60,100Elevation
83 metres (272 feet)Open location code
7GQJWQ87+75OpenStreetMap ID
node 332074802OpenStreetMap feature
place=townGeoNames ID
350422Wikidata ID
Q1816589
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Zulu—“Qus” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “قوص”
- Arabic: “مدينة قوص”
- Asturian: “Qus”
- Azerbaijani: “Kus”
- Belarusian: “Кус”
- Catalan: “Apol·linòpolis Parva”
- Catalan: “Apollinopolis Parva”
- Catalan: “Apol·linòpolis Parva”
- Catalan: “Dioclecianòpolis”
- Catalan: “Gesa”
- Catalan: “Gesy”
- Catalan: “Kus”
- Catalan: “Kuş”
- Catalan: “Qus”
- Cebuano: “Kousa”
- Chinese: “古斯 (基納省)”
- Chinese: “古斯”
- Dutch: “Qus”
- Egyptian Arabic: “قوص”
- French: “Apollinopolis Parva”
- French: “Qus”
- French: “Qûs”
- German: “Qus (Stadt)”
- German: “Qus”
- German: “Qūṣ”
- Greek: “Κους”
- Indonesian: “Qus”
- Italian: “Qus”
- Japanese: “クウス”
- Japanese: “クス”
- Persian: “شهرستان قوص”
- Persian: “قوص”
- Polish: “Kus”
- Pushto: “قوص”
- Russian: “Кус (Египет)”
- Russian: “Кус”
- Scots: “Qus”
- Scots: “قوص”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Kus (Egipat)”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Kus”
- Somali: “Quus”
- South Azerbaijani: “شهرستان قوص”
- Spanish: “Apolinopolis Parva”
- Spanish: “Apolinópolis Parva”
- Spanish: “Qus”
- Swedish: “Kousa (ort)”
- Swedish: “Kousa”
- Turkish: “Qus”
- Ukrainian: “Кус (Єгипет)”
- Ukrainian: “Кус”
- Vietnamese: “Qus”
- Zulu: “Qus”
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