Helwan

Helwan is a suburban district in the southern part of , Egypt, directly opposite the ruins of . The area of Helwan witnessed prehistoric, ancient Egyptian, Roman and Muslim era activity, and is one of the oldest continually inhabited cities, with inhabitation beginning in the mid 6th millennium BCE.
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  • City with 643,000 residents
  • …lies at an elevation of 28 metres (92 feet)
  • Description: city in Cairo Governorate
  • Also known as
    “Halwan”
    “Helouan”
    “Hélouan-les-Bains”
    “Helwan Les Bains”
    “Ḩelwān, Helwan”
    “Ḩulwān”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Helwan.
Nourhan Moubarak, CC BY-SA 4.0.
is a metro station.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Badrashin.
Doaa Adel, CC BY-SA 4.0.
is a city, and capital of the eponymous markaz, in , .

Helwan

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Latitude
29.85° or 29° 51′ north
Longitude
31.3333° or 31° 20′ east
UN/LOCODE
EG QHW
Open location code
7GXHR8XM+X8
Open­Street­Map ID
node 768775606
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
355795
Wiki­data ID
Q771345

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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Western Panjabi—“Helwan” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “حلوان”
  • Armenian: “Բարսելոնա”
  • Armenian: “Հելուան”
  • Asturian: “Helwan”
  • Basque: “Helwan”
  • Belarusian: “Хелуан”
  • Bengali: “হেলওয়ান”
  • Catalan: “Helwan”
  • Cebuano: “Ḩalwān”
  • Chinese: “赫勒万”
  • Chinese: “赫樂萬”
  • Coptic: “ϩⲁⲗⲃⲁⲛ”
  • Croatian: “Helwan”
  • Czech: “Helwán”
  • Dutch: “Helwan”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “حلوان”
  • Esperanto: “Helŭan”
  • Esperanto: “Helŭano”
  • Finnish: “Helwan”
  • Finnish: “Hilwan”
  • French: “Helwan”
  • Georgian: “ჰელუანი”
  • German: “Helwan”
  • Greek: “Χελουάν”
  • Hebrew: “הלוואן”
  • Hebrew: “חלואן”
  • Hebrew: “חלוואן”
  • Hindi: “हेलवान”
  • Hindi: “हेल्वान”
  • Indonesian: “Helwan”
  • Irish: “Helwan”
  • Irish: “Hilwan”
  • Italian: “Helwan”
  • Japanese: “ヘルワン”
  • Korean: “헬완”
  • Lithuanian: “Heluanas”
  • Maori: “Herewana”
  • Moroccan Arabic: “حلوان”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Helwan”
  • Norwegian: “Helwan”
  • Persian: “حلوان”
  • Polish: “Heluan”
  • Portuguese: “Heluã”
  • Russian: “Хелуан”
  • Scots: “Helwan”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Helvan”
  • Slovak: “Heluán”
  • Slovak: “Helván, Hilwan, Hulwán”
  • Slovenian: “Helwan”
  • South Azerbaijani: “حلوان”
  • Spanish: “Helwan”
  • Swedish: “Helwan”
  • Thai: “เฮลวาน”
  • Turkish: “Helvan”
  • Ukrainian: “Хелуан”
  • Urdu: “حلوان”
  • Venetian: “Helwan”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Helwan”
  • Western Panjabi: “حلوان، قاہرہ”
  • Western Panjabi: “حلوان”

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