Qift
Qift is a city in the Qena Governorate of Egypt about 43 km north of Luxor, situated a little south of latitude 26° north, on the east bank of the Nile.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Town with 22,100 residents
- Description: town in Egypt
- Also known as: “Qifţ” and “Quouft”
Qift
- Categories: city, archaeological site, and locality
- Location: Qena Governorate, Egypt, North Africa, Africa
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
25.9987° or 25° 59′ 55″ northLongitude
32.81601° or 32° 48′ 58″ eastPopulation
22,100Elevation
77 metres (253 feet)Open location code
7GQJXRX8+FCOpenStreetMap ID
node 332074724OpenStreetMap feature
place=townGeoNames ID
350560Wikidata ID
Q935454
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Zulu—“Qift” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “قفـط”
- Arabic: “قفط”
- Arabic: “مدينة قفط”
- Asturian: “Qift”
- Azerbaijani: “Koptos”
- Basque: “Koptos”
- Belarusian: “Коптас”
- Catalan: “Coptos”
- Dutch: “Koptos”
- Egyptian Arabic: “قفط”
- Finnish: “Koptos”
- French: “Coptos”
- German: “Koptos”
- German: “Qift”
- German: “Qifṭ”
- German: “Quft”
- Greek: “Κιφτ”
- Greek: “Κοπτός”
- Hebrew: “קופטוס”
- Indonesian: “Qift”
- Italian: “Copto”
- Italian: “Coptos”
- Japanese: “クイフト”
- Japanese: “コプトス”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Qift”
- Norwegian: “Qift”
- Old English (ca. 450-1100): “Coptceaster”
- Persian: “قفط”
- Polish: “Kift”
- Polish: “Koptos”
- Portuguese: “Copto”
- Portuguese: “Qift”
- Russian: “Коптос”
- Serbian: “Коптос”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Kift”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Qift”
- Slovenian: “Qift”
- South Azerbaijani: “قفط”
- Spanish: “Coptos”
- Swedish: “Koptos”
- Thai: “กิฟฏ์”
- Ukrainian: “Коптос”
- Urdu: “قفط”
- Vietnamese: “Coptos”
- Zulu: “Qift”
- “Coptos”
- “Koptos”
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