Bilbeis

Bilbeis is an ancient fortress city on the eastern edge of the southern in Egypt, the site of the ancient city and former bishopric of Phelbes and a Latin Catholic titular see.
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  • Type: City with 141,000 residents
  • Description: town in Egypt
  • Also known as: “Belbeis”, “Belbis”, “Bilbês”, “Бильбейс қаласы”, “בלביס”, and “ビルバイス”

Bilbeis

Latitude
30.4188° or 30° 25′ 8″ north
Longitude
31.5646° or 31° 33′ 53″ east
Population
141,000
Elevation
17 metres (56 feet)
UN/LOCODE
EG BBS
Open location code
8G2HCH97+GV
Open­Street­Map ID
node 703527885
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
358840
Wiki­data ID
Q393495
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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Zulu—“Bilbeis” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “بلبيس”
  • Armenian: “Բիլբեյս”
  • Asturian: “Bilbeis”
  • Bulgarian: “Билбайс”
  • Catalan: “Bilbeis”
  • Cebuano: “Bilbays”
  • Chinese: “比勒拜斯”
  • Czech: “Bilbajs”
  • Dutch: “Bilbeis”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “بلبيس”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “مدينة بلبيس”
  • Esperanto: “Bilbejs”
  • Finnish: “Bilbays”
  • French: “Bilbéis”
  • French: “Bilbéïs”
  • German: “Bilbeis”
  • Greek: “Μπιμπάις”
  • Hebrew: “בילביס”
  • Hungarian: “Bilbeisz”
  • Indonesian: “Bilbeis”
  • Irish: “Bilbeis”
  • Italian: “Bilbeis”
  • Japanese: “ビルベース”
  • Japanese: “ビルベイス”
  • Kazakh: “Bïlʹbeýs”
  • Kazakh: “Бильбейс”
  • Kazakh: “بىيلبەيس”
  • Korean: “빌베이스”
  • Latvian: “Bilbeisa”
  • Malagasy: “Bilbays”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Bilbays”
  • Norwegian: “Bilbays”
  • Persian: “بلبیس”
  • Polish: “Bilbajs”
  • Portuguese: “Bilbeis”
  • Russian: “Бильбейс”
  • Scots: “Bilbeis”
  • Serbian: “Bilbejs”
  • Serbian: “Билбејс”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Bilbejs”
  • South Azerbaijani: “بلبیس”
  • Spanish: “Bilbeis”
  • Swahili: “Bilbais”
  • Swedish: “Bilbays”
  • Turkish: “Bilbeys”
  • Ukrainian: “Більбейс”
  • Urdu: “بلبیس”
  • Uzbek: “Bilbeis”
  • Venetian: “Bilbeis”
  • Zulu: “Bilbeis”

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