Hihya
Hihya is a city in the Sharqia Governorate, Egypt. It had a population of 66,702 in the 2017 census. The 1885 Egyptian census classified Hihya as a nahiyah in the district of Sawaleh in Sharqia Governorate; at that time, the population of the city was 4,011.- Type: Suburb with 74,800 residents
- Description: human settlement in Egypt
- Also known as: “Hehia” and “Rehia”
Hihya
- Categories: city and locality
- Location: Sharqia Province, Egypt, North Africa, Africa
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Latitude
30.6703° or 30° 40′ 13″ north
Longitude
31.589° or 31° 35′ 20″ east
Population
74,800
Elevation
14 metres (46 feet)
Open location code
8G2HMHCQ+4H
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
place=suburb
GeoNames ID
Wikidata ID
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Zulu—“Hihya” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “ههيا”
- Asturian: “Hihya”
- Cebuano: “Hihyā”
- Dutch: “Hihya”
- Egyptian Arabic: “مدينة ههيا”
- Egyptian Arabic: “ههيا”
- Hebrew: “חיניא”
- Malagasy: “Hihyā”
- Persian: “ههیا”
- Polish: “Hihja”
- Russian: “Хихья”
- South Azerbaijani: “ههیا”
- Swedish: “Hihyā”
- Ukrainian: “Хіхья”
- Uzbek: “Hahyana”
- Zulu: “Hihya”
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