Jirja
Girga, alternatively Digirga or Digurga is a city in the Sohag Governorate of Upper Egypt located on the west bank of the Nile. It is the metropolitan see of the Coptic Orthodox Church, and is the oldest continuously-inhabited city on the African continent.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Town with 114,000 residents
- Description: city in Egypt
- Also known as: “Girga” and “Jirjā”
Jirja
- Categories: city, archaeological site, big city, and locality
- Location: Sohag Governorate, Egypt, North Africa, Africa
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
26.3374° or 26° 20′ 15″ northLongitude
31.8912° or 31° 53′ 28″ eastPopulation
114,000Elevation
78 metres (256 feet)Open location code
7GRH8VPR+XFOpenStreetMap ID
node 299573543OpenStreetMap feature
place=townGeoNames ID
355026Wikidata ID
Q749187
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Zulu—“Jirja” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “أعلام جرجا”
- Arabic: “اعلام جرجا”
- Arabic: “ثينيس”
- Arabic: “جرجا”
- Arabic: “مدينة جرجا”
- Armenian: “Գիրգա”
- Asturian: “Girga”
- Basque: “Girga”
- Bulgarian: “Гирга”
- Catalan: “Girga”
- Cebuano: “Jirjā”
- Chinese: “吉尔贾”
- Chinese: “吉爾賈”
- Dutch: “Girga”
- Dutch: “Jirjā”
- Egyptian Arabic: “جرجا”
- Esperanto: “Ĝarĝa”
- Esperanto: “Girga”
- Finnish: “Girga”
- French: “Girga”
- French: “Girja”
- Georgian: “გირგა”
- German: “Girga”
- German: “Girgā”
- German: “Thinis”
- German: “This”
- German: “Tin”
- German: “Tine”
- German: “Tjeni”
- Greek: “Γκίργκα”
- Hebrew: “ג’ירגה”
- Indonesian: “Girga”
- Irish: “Girga”
- Italian: “Girga”
- Japanese: “ギルガ”
- Japanese: “ジルジャー”
- Japanese: “ソハーグ”
- Kazakh: “Гирга”
- Malagasy: “Jirjā”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Girga”
- Norwegian: “Girga”
- Persian: “جرجا”
- Polish: “Dżirdża”
- Russian: “Гирга”
- Serbian: “Гирга”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Girga”
- South Azerbaijani: “جرجا”
- Spanish: “Girga”
- Swahili: “Girga”
- Swedish: “Jirja”
- Turkish: “Circa”
- Ukrainian: “Гірга”
- Ukrainian: “Ґірґа”
- Urdu: “جرجا”
- Venetian: “Girga”
- Zulu: “Girga”
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