Edku
Edku is a town in the Beheira Governorate, located east of Alexandria and west of Rashid, overlooking the Mediterranean Sea. Edku lies on a sandy strip behind Abi Qir Bay, in the northwestern Nile River delta.Photo: Mhmd yassen, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Photo: Mhmd yassen, CC BY-SA 4.0.
- Type: City with 210,000 residents
- Description: town in Beheira, Egypt
- Also known as: “Edkou” and “Idku”
Edku
- Category: locality
- Location: Markaz Idkū, Beheira, Egypt, North Africa, Africa
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
31.3057° or 31° 18′ 21″ northLongitude
30.2986° or 30° 17′ 55″ eastPopulation
210,000Elevation
6 metres (20 feet)United Nations Location Code
EG IKUOpen location code
8G3G874X+7COpenStreetMap ID
node 1039327711OpenStreetMap feature
place=city
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Zulu—“Edku” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “إدكو” (historical)
- Arabic: “ادكو”
- Asturian: “Idku”
- Cebuano: “Idkū”
- Chinese: “伊德库”
- Chinese: “伊德庫”
- Dutch: “Idku”
- Esperanto: “Idku”
- French: “Idku”
- German: “Idku”
- Kazakh: “Ïdkw”
- Kazakh: “Идку қаласы”
- Kazakh: “Идку”
- Kazakh: “ىيدكۋ”
- Malagasy: “Idkū”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Edku”
- Norwegian: “Edku”
- Persian: “ادکو”
- Polish: “Idku”
- Russian: “Идку”
- Russian: “Эдку”
- Serbian: “Идку”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Idku”
- South Azerbaijani: “ادکو”
- Spanish: “Idkū”
- Swedish: “Idku”
- Ukrainian: “Ідку”
- Zulu: “Edku”
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