Elephantine
Elephantine is an island on the Nile, forming part of the city of Aswan in Upper Egypt. The archaeological digs on the island became a World Heritage Site in 1979, along with other examples of Upper Egyptian architecture, as part of the "Nubian Monuments from Abu Simbel to Philae".
- Island
- …lies at an elevation of around 100 metres (330 feet)
- Description: island in the Nile, Egypt
- Also known as“Aswān Island”“Elephantine Island”“Gezîret Aswân”“Gezîret Elephantine”“Jazirat Aswan”“Jeb”
- Historically known as“Abu”“Yebu”
Places of Interest Nearby
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El Nabatat Island
El Nabatat Island or Kitchener's Island is a small, oval-shaped island in the Nile at Aswan, Egypt.
Aswan Museum
Aswan Museum is a museum in Elephantine, located on the south-eastern side of Aswan, Egypt.
Pyramid of Elefantine
The pyramid of Elephantine is part of a group of seven…
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Aswan and Shellal.
Shellal
Village
Shellal is a small ancient village on the banks of the Nile, south of Aswan in Upper Egypt.
Elephantine
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Latitude
24.0911° or 24° 5′ 28″ north
Longitude
32.8888° or 32° 53′ 20″ east
Open location code
7GPJ3VRQ+CG
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
place = island
GeoNames ID
Wikidata ID
Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Vietnamese—“Elephantine” goes by many names.
إلفنتينArabic
جزيرة ألفنتينArabic
ElefantinaAsturian
ElefantinaBasque
ЭлефанцінаBelarusian
ElefantinaBreton
ElefantinaCatalan
illa ElefantinaCatalan
Jazīrat AswānCebuano
象岛Chinese
ElefantinaCroatian
ElefantinaCzech
ElefantineDanish
ElephantineDutch
الفنتينEgyptian Arabic
ElefantinaEsperanto
Assuani saarEstonian
Aswāni saarEstonian
ElefantineFinnish
ElefantinaGalician
ΕλεφαντίνηGreek
ElephantineHausa
יבHebrew
एलेफांतीनेHindi
ElephantinéHungarian
ElefantinIndonesian
ElefantinaItalian
エレファンティーヌ島Japanese
エレファンティネJapanese
エレファンティネ島Japanese
엘레판티네섬Korean
ElephantineLatin
ElefantinMalay
ElephantineMaori
ElefantineNorwegian
ElefantineNorwegian Bokmål
الفانتینPersian
ElefantynaPolish
ElefantinaRomanian
АбуRussian
ЭлефантинаRussian
ЕлефантинаSerbian
ElefantinaSerbo-Croatian
ElefantinaSlovenian
ElefantineSwedish
எலிபென்டைன் தீவுTamil
เกาะเอลิแฟนไทนีThai
ElefantinTurkish
ЕлефантинаUkrainian
الفانتینUrdu
الفنطینےUrdu
ElefantinaUzbek
ElephantineVietnamese
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