North Africa
Egypt
Sohag Governorate

Jirja

Girga, alternatively Digirga or Digurga is a city in the of 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.
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  • Type: Town with 114,000 residents
  • Description: city in Egypt
  • Also known as: “Girga” and “Jirjā”

Jirja

Latitude
26.3374° or 26° 20′ 15″ north
Longitude
31.8912° or 31° 53′ 28″ east
Population
114,000
Elevation
78 metres (256 feet)
Open location code
7GRH8VPR+XF
Open­Street­Map ID
node 299573543
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­town
Geo­Names ID
355026
Wiki­data ID
Q749187
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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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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Jirja”. Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 2.5.