Beheira

Beheira is a coastal governorate in northern . Located in the northern part of the country in the , its capital is .
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  • Governorate of Egypt with 6,990,000 residents
  • …lies at an elevation of 40 metres (131 feet)
  • Description: Egyptian governorate
  • Also known as
    “Al Buḩayrah”
    “Behaira”
    “Beheira Governorate”
    “Béhéra”
    “Buheira”
    “El Beheira Governorate”
    “Mohafazat El Beheira”
    “Muḥâfaẕet el-Beḥeira”

Beheira

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Latitude
30.6° or 30° 36′ north
Longitude
30.2° or 30° 12′ east
Open location code
8G2GH5XX+XX
Geo­Names ID
361370
Wiki­data ID
Q30630

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In Other Languages

From Amharic to Zulu—“Beheira” goes by many names.
  • Amharic: “Muḩāfaz̧at al Buḩayrah”
  • Arabic: “البحيرة”
  • Arabic: “بحيرة”
  • Arabic: “محافظة البحيرة”
  • Arabic: “مديرية البحيرة”
  • Armenian: “Բուհեյրա”
  • Azerbaijani: “Əl-Büheyrə mühafəzəsi”
  • Belarusian: “Бугэйра”
  • Belarusian: “Бухейра”
  • Belarusian: “Мухафаза Бухейра”
  • Bengali: “বেহিরা গভর্নোরেট”
  • Bosnian: “Beheira”
  • Bulgarian: “Бухайра”
  • Catalan: “Al Buhayra”
  • Catalan: “Beheira”
  • Catalan: “governació de Buhayra”
  • Catalan: “Governació de Buhayra”
  • Cebuano: “Beheira Governorate”
  • Chinese: “布海拉省”
  • Croatian: “Beheira”
  • Czech: “Buhajra”
  • Danish: “Al Buhayrah”
  • Dutch: “Al Buhayrah”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “البحيرة”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “البحيره”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “محافظة البحيرة”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “محافظة البحيره”
  • Esperanto: “al-Buhajra”
  • Esperanto: “gubernio Buhajra”
  • Esperanto: “provinco Buhajra”
  • Esperanto: “Provinco Buhajra”
  • Estonian: “Al-Buhayrati kubernerkond”
  • Estonian: “Al-Buḩayrāti kubernerkond”
  • Finnish: “Al-Buhaira”
  • French: “Beheira”
  • French: “Gouvernorat de Beheira”
  • Georgian: “ბეჰეირა”
  • Georgian: “ბეჰეირის მუჰაფაზა”
  • German: “al-Buhaira”
  • German: “Buḥeira”
  • German: “EG-BH”
  • German: “el-Beheira”
  • German: “el-Buheira”
  • German: “Gouvernement al-Buhaira”
  • Greek: “Κυβερνείο Μπεχέιρα”
  • Gujarati: “બીહેઇરા ગવર્નોરેટ”
  • Hausa: “Behira”
  • Hebrew: “אל-בחירה”
  • Hebrew: “מחוז אל-בחירה”
  • Hindi: “बेहेइरा मुहाफ़ज़ाह”
  • Hindi: “बेहेरा प्रांत”
  • Indonesian: “Kegubernuran Beheira, Mesir”
  • Indonesian: “Kegubernuran Beheira”
  • Irish: “Gobharnóireacht Beheira”
  • Italian: “Al Buhayrah”
  • Italian: “Beheira”
  • Italian: “Governatorato di Beheira”
  • Italian: “Governatorato di Buhayra”
  • Japanese: “ブハイラ県”
  • Japanese: “ベヘイラ県”
  • Javanese: “Behirah”
  • Kannada: “ಬೆಹಿರಾ ಗವರ್ನೇಟ್”
  • Kazakh: “Бухайра”
  • Kirghiz: “Бухайра”
  • Korean: “베헤이라 주”
  • Korean: “베헤이라주”
  • Korean: “부하이라주”
  • Latin: “Al-Buhaira”
  • Latin: “Buhaira”
  • Latvian: “Buheirātas muhāfaza”
  • Lithuanian: “Beheiros muchafaza”
  • Macedonian: “Гувернерат Бухеира”
  • Malay: “Beheira Governorate”
  • Malay: “Kegabenoran Beheira”
  • Marathi: “बेहेरा गव्हरनेट”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Beheira Séng”
  • Northern Frisian: “Buhaira (Guwernement)”
  • Northern Frisian: “Buhaira”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Guvernementet Al Buhayrah”
  • Norwegian: “Guvernementet Beheira”
  • Oromo: “Behira”
  • Panjabi: “ਬਹੀਰਾ”
  • Persian: “استان بحیره”
  • Polish: “Al-Buhajra”
  • Portuguese: “Al-Buhaira”
  • Portuguese: “Buaira”
  • Pushto: “البحيرة”
  • Romanian: “Al Buhayrah”
  • Romanian: “guvernoratul Beheira”
  • Romanian: “Guvernoratul Beheira”
  • Russian: “Бухейра”
  • Scots: “Beheira Govrenorate”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “Guibhearnaireachd Beheira”
  • Serbian: “Beheira Governorate”
  • Serbian: “Бухејра”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Beheira (muhafaza)”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Beheira”
  • Sinhala: “බෙහෙරියා පළාත”
  • Slovak: “Al-Buhajra”
  • Slovenian: “Guvernat Beheira”
  • Somali: “Behira”
  • South Azerbaijani: “بحیره اوستانی”
  • Spanish: “Behera”
  • Spanish: “Gobernación de Behera”
  • Swahili: “Mkoa wa Beheira”
  • Swedish: “al-Buhayra”
  • Swedish: “Al-Buhayra”
  • Swedish: “Al-Buhayrah”
  • Swedish: “Guvernementet Beheira”
  • Tajik: “Вилояти Буҳайра”
  • Tamil: “பெஹெயிரா கோவெர்னோரே”
  • Tatar: “Бухайра”
  • Telugu: “బెహీరా గవర్నరేట్”
  • Thai: “เขตผู้ว่าการอัลบุฮัยเราะฮ์”
  • Turkish: “Buheyre”
  • Ukrainian: “Бухейра”
  • Urdu: “محافظہ بحیرہ”
  • Uzbek: “Behira”
  • Uzbek: “Buhayra muhofazasi”
  • Vietnamese: “Tỉnh Beheira”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Beheira”
  • Western Panjabi: “صوبہ بحیرہ”
  • Wu Chinese: “布海拉省”
  • Zulu: “Beheira Governorate”

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