Helwan
Helwan is a suburban district in the Southern Area of Cairo, Egypt. The area of Helwan witnessed prehistoric, ancient Egyptian, Roman and Muslim era activity.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: City with 643,000 residents
- Description: city in Cairo Governorate
- Also known as: “Halwan”, “Helouan”, “Hélouan-les-Bains”, “Ḥelwân”, “Helwan Les Bains”, “Ḩelwān, Helwan”, and “Ḩulwān”
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Badrashin.
Badrashin
Village
Badrashin is a city, and capital of the eponymous markaz, in Giza Governorate, Egypt. Badrashin County is the site of Ancient Egypt's royal capital, Men-nefer.
Helwan
- Categories: big city, sheyakha, and locality
- Location: Cairo Governorate, Egypt, North Africa, Africa
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
29.85° or 29° 51′ northLongitude
31.3333° or 31° 20′ eastPopulation
643,000Elevation
28 metres (92 feet)United Nations Location Code
EG QHWOpen location code
7GXHR8XM+X8OpenStreetMap ID
node 768775606OpenStreetMap feature
place=city
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Satellite Map
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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”
- Italian: “Helwan”
- Japanese: “ヘルワン”
- Korean: “헬완”
- Lithuanian: “Heluanas”
- Maori: “Herewana”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Helwan”
- Norwegian: “Helwan”
- Persian: “حلوان”
- Polish: “Heluan”
- Portuguese: “Heluã”
- Russian: “Хелуан”
- Scots: “Helwan”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Helvan”
- 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”
- “Helwan”
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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 “Helwan”. Photo: RolandUnger, CC BY-SA 3.0.