Al Fashn
El Fashn is a city in Egypt. It is situated near the southern borders of Beni Suef Governorate. The city was called Phebichis in Ptolemaic and Byzantine Egypt.- Type: Town with 113,000 residents
- Description: human settlement
- Also known as: “El Fashn”, “Faschn”, “Fashn”, “فشن”, and “مدينة الفشن”
Al Fashn
- Categories: human settlement and locality
- Location: Beni Suweif Governorate, Egypt, North Africa, Africa
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Latitude
28.8233° or 28° 49′ 24″ north
Longitude
30.8995° or 30° 53′ 58″ east
Population
113,000
Elevation
39 metres (128 feet)
Open location code
7GWGRVFX+8R
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OpenStreetMap feature
place=town
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Zulu—“Al Fashn” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “الفشن”
- Cebuano: “Al Fashn”
- Dutch: “Al Fashn”
- Egyptian Arabic: “الفشن”
- Esperanto: “El-Faŝn”
- Estonian: “Al-Fashn”
- French: “Al Fashn”
- German: “al-Faschn”
- Malagasy: “Al Fashn”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Al Fashn”
- Norwegian: “El Fashn”
- Persian: “الفشن”
- Polish: “Al-Faszn”
- Russian: “Эль-Фашн”
- South Azerbaijani: “الفشن”
- Swedish: “Al Fashn”
- Swedish: “al-Fashn”
- Swedish: “Al-Fashn”
- Urdu: “الفشن”
- Uzbek: “Al-Fashan”
- Zulu: “El Fashn”
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Localities in the Area
Places to explore: Al Fashn and Economy Housing.
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Highlights: Mosque and Fashn.
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