North Africa
Egypt
Beni Suweif Governorate

Al Fashn

El Fashn is a city in . It is situated near the southern borders of . The city was called Phebichis in Ptolemaic and Byzantine Egypt.
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  • Type: Town with 113,000 residents
  • Description: human settlement
  • Also known as: “El Fashn” and “Fashn”

Al Fashn

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
Open­Street­Map ID
node 331953872
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­town
Geo­Names ID
361329
Wiki­data ID
Q953625
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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Zulu—“Al Fashn” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “الفشن”
  • Arabic: “فشن”
  • Arabic: “مدينة الفشن”
  • Cebuano: “Al Fashn”
  • Dutch: “Al Fashn”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “الفشن”
  • Esperanto: “El-Faŝn”
  • Estonian: “Al-Fashn”
  • French: “Al Fashn”
  • German: “al-Faschn”
  • German: “al-Fashn”
  • German: “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”
  • Uzbek: “Al-Fashan”
  • Zulu: “El Fashn”

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