Aswan Governorate
Aswan Governorate is one of the 27 governorates of Egypt. It is the southernmost governorate in Upper Egypt, covering most of the area of Lake Nasser. Its capital is Aswan.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: governorate of Egypt with 1,690,000 residents
- Description: Egyptian governorate
- Also known as: “Aswan”, “Mohafazat Aswan”, “Mudīrīyat Aswān”, and “Muhafazat Aswan”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Temple of Gerf Hussein.
Temple of Gerf Hussein
Monument
Photo: mick-dede, CC BY-SA 2.0.
The temple of Gerf Hussein was dedicated to pharaoh Ramesses II and built by the Setau, Viceroy of Nubia. Situated on a bank of the Nile some 90 km south of Aswan, it was partly free-standing and partly cut from the rock.
Aswan Governorate
- Location: Egypt, North Africa, Africa
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Zulu—“Aswan Governorate” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “أسوان (محافظة)”
- Arabic: “أسوان (محافظه)”
- Arabic: “أسوان”
- Arabic: “لمحافظة أسوان”
- Arabic: “محافظة أسوان”
- Arabic: “محافظة اسوان”
- Armenian: “Ասուան”
- Asturian: “Asuán”
- Asturian: “Aswan”
- Asturian: “gobernación d’Aswan”
- Azerbaijani: “Əsvan mühafəzəsi”
- Belarusian: “Асуан”
- Belarusian: “Мухафаза Асуан”
- Bosnian: “Asuan”
- Bulgarian: “Асуан”
- Catalan: “governació d’Assuan”
- Catalan: “Governació d’Assuan”
- Cebuano: “Muḩāfaz̧at Aswān”
- Chinese: “Aswan Séng”
- Chinese: “阿斯旺省”
- Czech: “Asuán”
- Danish: “Aswan”
- Dutch: “Aswan”
- Egyptian Arabic: “محافظة اسوان”
- Esperanto: “Provinco Asuano”
- Estonian: “Assuani kubernerkond”
- Estonian: “Aswāni kubernerkond”
- Finnish: “Assuanin kuvernementti”
- Finnish: “Assuanin kuvernoraatti”
- French: “Assouan”
- French: “Gouvernorat d’Assouan”
- Galician: “Asuán”
- Georgian: “ასუანის მუჰაფაზა”
- German: “Assuan”
- German: “Aswan”
- German: “EG-ASN”
- German: “Gouvernement Aswan”
- Greek: “Κυβερνείο Ασουάν”
- Hebrew: “אסואן (מחוז)”
- Hebrew: “אסואן”
- Hindi: “असवान मुहाफ़ज़ाह”
- Hungarian: “Asszuán kormányzóság”
- Indonesian: “Kegubernuran Aswan”
- Irish: “Gobharnóireacht Aswan”
- Italian: “Governatorato di Assuan”
- Japanese: “アスワン県”
- Korean: “아스완주”
- Latin: “Aswān”
- Latvian: “Asuānas muhāfaza”
- Lithuanian: “Asuano muchafaza”
- Macedonian: “Асуан (област)”
- Macedonian: “Асуан”
- Malay: “Kegabenoran Aswan”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Aswan Séng”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Aswan”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Aswan guvernement”
- Norwegian: “Guvernementet Aswan”
- Persian: “استان اسوان”
- Polish: “Asuan”
- Portuguese: “Assuão”
- Romanian: “Guvernoratul Aswan”
- Russian: “Асуан”
- Scots: “Aswan Govrenorate”
- Serbian: “Асуан”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Asuan (muhafaza)”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Asuan”
- Somali: “Aswan Governorate”
- South Azerbaijani: “اسوان اوستانی”
- Spanish: “Asuan”
- Spanish: “Asuán”
- Spanish: “Gobernación de Asuán”
- Swahili: “Mkoa wa Aswan”
- Swedish: “Assuan”
- Tajik: “Вилояти Асвон”
- Thai: “เขตผู้ว่าการอัสวาน”
- Turkish: “Asvan”
- Ukrainian: “Асуан”
- Urdu: “محافظہ اسوان”
- Vietnamese: “Aswan”
- Waray (Philippines): “Aswan”
- Western Panjabi: “صوبہ اسوان”
- Wu Chinese: “阿斯旺省”
- Yue Chinese: “阿斯旺省”
- Zulu: “Aswan Governorate”
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