Bawiti
El-Bawiti is a town in the Western desert in Egypt. With 15,978 inhabitants, it is the largest settlement in the Bahariya Oasis.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Town with 15,700 residents
- Description: town in the Egyptian depression of el-Bahriya
- Also known as: “Al Bawiti”, “Bawīti”, and “El Bawîti”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Bahariyya and El Beshmo Lodge.
Bahariyya
Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Bahariyya is an oasis in the Western Desert of Egypt. It is 370 km from Cairo, the closest of the five western oases, and it serves as a staging post for reaching the others.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Mandisha.
Mandisha
Town
Photo: RolandUnger, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Mandisha is a town, which is situated 7 km east of Bawiti.
Bawiti
- Categories: city and locality
- Location: Giza Governorate, Egypt, North Africa, Africa
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
28.35182° or 28° 21′ 7″ northLongitude
28.86299° or 28° 51′ 47″ eastPopulation
15,700Elevation
131 metres (430 feet)Open location code
7GWC9V27+P5OpenStreetMap ID
node 336335743OpenStreetMap feature
place=townGeoNames ID
361394Wikidata ID
Q4116186
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Uzbek—“Bawiti” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “الباويطى”
- Arabic: “الباويطي”
- Arabic: “البويطي”
- Arabic: “مدينة الباويطي”
- Asturian: “Bawiti”
- Cebuano: “Al Bawīţī”
- Chinese: “拜維提”
- Dutch: “Al-Bawiti”
- Egyptian Arabic: “باويط”
- French: “Bawiti”
- German: “al-Bawiti”
- German: “Bauiti”
- German: “Bawiti”
- German: “Bāwīṭī”
- Greek: “Μπαουίτι”
- Japanese: “バウーティー”
- Persian: “الباویطی”
- Polish: “Al-Bawiti”
- Russian: “Бавити”
- South Azerbaijani: “الباویطی”
- Swedish: “Al Bawīţī”
- Uzbek: “Al-Baviti”
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Localities in the Area
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Notable Places Nearby
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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 “Bawiti”. Photo: Nomo, CC BY-SA 2.5.