El Lahun
El Lahun (Arabic: اللاهون El Lāhūn, Coptic: ⲗⲉϩⲱⲛⲉ alt. Illahun, Lahun, or Kahun, is a town and pyramid complex in Faiyum, Egypt founded by Senusret II.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: Markh, Public domain.
- Type: Village
- Description: village in Faiyum Governorate, Egypt
- Also known as: “Al Lahun”, “Al Lāhūn”, “El-Lahun”, “ElLâhûn”, “Kahun”, “Lahun”, and “لهون”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Pyramid of El Lahun.
Pyramid of El Lahun
Photo: Einsamer Schütze, CC BY-SA 3.0.
The pyramid of Senusret II is the funerary monument at El Lahun built for the Egyptian pharaoh Senusret II of the Twelfth Dynasty in the early 19th century BC. Pyramid of El Lahun is situated 3 km north of El Lahun.
El Lahun
- Categories: pyramid, necropolis, archaeological site, village in Egypt, and locality
- Location: Faiyum Governorate, Egypt, North Africa, Africa
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Latitude
29.20951° or 29° 12′ 34″ northLongitude
30.97954° or 30° 58′ 46″ eastElevation
31 metres (102 feet)Open location code
7GXG6X5H+RROpenStreetMap ID
node 332567624OpenStreetMap feature
place=village
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Ukrainian—“El Lahun” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “اللاهون”
- Arabic: “لاهون”
- Basque: “El Lahun”
- Catalan: “El-Lahun”
- Catalan: “Lahun”
- Chinese: “伊拉洪”
- Chinese: “拉洪”
- Chinese: “拉罕”
- Dutch: “El-Lahun”
- Egyptian Arabic: “لاهون”
- French: “El-Lahoun”
- French: “El-Lahun”
- French: “Illahoun”
- French: “Lahun”
- German: “al-Lahun”
- German: “Al-Lahun”
- German: “El Lahun”
- German: “El-Lahun”
- German: “Illahun”
- German: “Kahun”
- German: “Lahun”
- German: “Lāhūn”
- Hebrew: “אל-לחון”
- Hungarian: “Káhún”
- Indonesian: “El Lahun”
- Italian: “El Lahun”
- Italian: “el-Lahun”
- Italian: “El-Lahun”
- Japanese: “エル・ラフン”
- Newari: “काहुन”
- Persian: “اللاهون”
- Polish: “Al-Lahun”
- Polish: “El Lahun”
- Polish: “El-Lahun”
- Portuguese: “El Lahun”
- Russian: “Иллахун”
- Russian: “Кахун”
- Russian: “Лахун”
- Russian: “Эль-Лахун”
- Serbo-Croatian: “El-Lahun”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Kahun”
- Slovenian: “El-Lahun”
- South Azerbaijani: “اللاهون”
- Spanish: “El Lahun”
- Spanish: “El-Lahun”
- Spanish: “Kahun”
- Swedish: “El-Lahun”
- Ukrainian: “Ель-Лахун”
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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “El Lahun”. Photo: Markh, Public domain.