Dahab Island

Dahab Island is a Nile island located in the metropolitan region of near the eastern Nile shore south of and near of Qorsaya Island. The island belongs to and has a strong agricultural character.
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  • Type: Island
  • Description: island in Egypt
  • Also known as: “Gezîret eḏ-Ḏahab”, “Geziret el Dahab”, “Geziret el-Dahab”, “Gezîret el-Dahab”, “Jazirat adh Dhahab”, and “Jazīrat adh Dhahab”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Fustat and Coptic Museum.

Protected area
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Fusṭāṭ was the first capital of Egypt under Muslim rule, nowadays part of . It was built adjacent to what is now known as by the Rashidun Muslim general ʿAmr ibn ul-ʿĀṣ immediately after the Muslim conquest of in AD 641, and featured the Mosque of ʿAmr, the first built in Egypt.

Museum
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The is a in , Egypt, which contains the largest collection of Coptic Christian artifacts in the world. It was founded by Marcus Simaika in 1908 to house Coptic antiquities.

Photo: Berthold Werner, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Saint Virgin Mary's Coptic Orthodox Church, also known as the , is one of the oldest churches in which dates to the third century. It belongs to the Coptic Orthodox Church of Alexandria.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Giza and Ma’adi.

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Picture yourself in Egypt and you picture this. Imagine Ancient Egypt and this is where your mind will land. Here is , the city just west of Cairo, where on a desert plateau stand the Pyramids, Sphinx and royal tombs of the pharaohs.

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Ma'adi is a leafy and formerly suburban district of , south of the city center on the eastern bank of the Nile. Ma'adi was established in 1904, when a railway was built through the area to connect Cairo and Helwan to the south.

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is the extensive district of southern from the southern boundary of down to the precinct commonly known as Coptic Cairo.

Dahab Island

Latitude
29.98408° or 29° 59′ 3″ north
Longitude
31.227° or 31° 13′ 37″ east
Population
40,400
Elevation
26 metres (85 feet)
Open location code
7GXHX6MG+JQ
Open­Street­Map ID
way 24685098
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­island
Geo­Names ID
355117
Wiki­data ID
Q12205404
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Satellite Map

Discover Dahab Island from above in high-definition satellite imagery.
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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Swedish—“Dahab Island” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “جزيرة الدهب”
  • Arabic: “جزيرة الذهب”
  • Cebuano: “Jazīrat adh Dhahab”
  • Dutch: “Geziret el-Dahab”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “جزيرة الذهب”
  • French: “Ile de Dahab”
  • German: “Gazirat ad-Dahab”
  • German: “Gazīrat edh-Dhahab”
  • German: “Geziret el-Dahab”
  • German: “Goldinsel”
  • Hausa: “Tsibirin Dahab”
  • Swedish: “Jazīrat adh Dhahab”

Localities in the Area

Explore places such as Gezirat Ben Al Bahren and Athr Al Nabi.

Notable Places Nearby

Highlights include Premier Egypt and As-Salam International Hospital.

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