Atfih
Atfih is a town in Middle Egypt. It was part of the now defunct Helwan Governorate from April 2008 to April 2011, after which it was reincorporated into the Giza Governorate. As of 2001, it has a population of 106,300 inhabitants.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Meidoum.
Meidoum
Village
Photo: Kurohito, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Meidum, Maydum or Maidum is an archaeological site in Lower Egypt. It contains a large pyramid and several mudbrick mastabas. The pyramid was Egypt's first straight-sided one, but it partially collapsed in ancient times. Meidoum is situated 9 km southwest of Atfih.
Atfih
- Type: Locality with 26,900 residents
- Description: human settlement
- Category: city
- Location: Giza Governorate, Egypt, North Africa, Africa
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Swedish—“Atfih” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “أطفيح”
- Arabic: “إطفيح”
- Arabic: “اطفيح”
- Arabic: “مركز اطفيح”
- Asturian: “Atfih”
- Catalan: “Atfih”
- Catalan: “Itfih”
- Catalan: “Tepihu”
- Catalan: “Tepihut”
- Cebuano: “Aţfīḩ”
- Dutch: “Atfih”
- Egyptian Arabic: “إطفيح”
- Egyptian Arabic: “اطفيح”
- Finnish: “Atfih”
- French: “Atfieh”
- German: “Atfih”
- German: “Tepihu”
- Greek: “Ατφίχ”
- Greek: “Αφροδιτόπολις”
- Greek: “Αφροδιτώ”
- Hebrew: “אטפיח”
- Italian: “Aphroditopolis”
- Italian: “Atfih”
- Japanese: “イトフィーフ”
- Kazakh: “Атфих қаласы”
- Persian: “اطفیح”
- Polish: “Atfih”
- Portuguese: “Afroditópolis”
- Portuguese: “Atfih”
- Russian: “Атфих”
- Scots: “Atfih”
- Slovak: “Afroditopolis”
- Slovak: “Aphroditopolis”
- Slovak: “Atfih”
- Slovak: “Atfíh”
- South Azerbaijani: “اطفیح”
- Spanish: “Atfih”
- Swedish: “Atfih”
- Swedish: “Aţfīḩ”
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