Belqas
Belqas is a town located in the north-western corner of the Dakahlia Governorate in Egypt. Belqas has about 137,000 residents.Photo: Hafez agina, CC BY-SA 3.0.
- Type: Village with 137,000 residents
- Description: human settlement
- Also known as: “Balqās”, “Bilqas”, “Bilqâs”, “Bilqâs Qism Auwal”, “Bilqās Qism Awwal”, and “Bilqâs, Bilqas”
Belqas
- Categories: human settlement and locality
- Location: Dakahlia Governorate, Egypt, North Africa, Africa
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
31.2131° or 31° 12′ 47″ northLongitude
31.3575° or 31° 21′ 27″ eastPopulation
137,000Elevation
13 metres (43 feet)Open location code
8G3H6975+62OpenStreetMap ID
node 767997755OpenStreetMap feature
place=villageGeoNames ID
358821Wikidata ID
Q950839
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Zulu—“Belqas” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “بلقاس”
- Arabic: “مدينة بلقاس”
- Azerbaijani: “Bilqas”
- Cebuano: “Bilqās”
- Dutch: “Belqas”
- Egyptian Arabic: “بلقاس”
- Esperanto: “Bilkas”
- French: “Belkas”
- French: “Belqas”
- French: “Bilqas”
- German: “Belqas”
- German: “Bilqas”
- Irish: “Belqas”
- Kazakh: “Билкас”
- Malagasy: “Bilqās”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Belqas”
- Norwegian: “Belqas”
- Persian: “بلقاس”
- Polish: “Bilkas Kism Awwal”
- Russian: “Билкас”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Bilkas”
- South Azerbaijani: “بلقاس”
- Swedish: “Bilqas”
- Ukrainian: “Бількас”
- Urdu: “بلقاس، مصر”
- Uzbek: “Belqas”
- Zulu: “Belqas”
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