North Africa
Egypt
Giza Governorate

Great Sphinx of Giza

The Great Sphinx of Giza is a limestone of a reclining sphinx, a mythical creature with the head of a human and the body of a lion. The monument was sculpted from the limestone bedrock of the Eocene-aged Mokattam Formation and faces east on the Giza Plateau, on the west bank of the Nile in , Egypt.
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  • Type: Work of art
  • Artwork type: statue
  • Description: ancient Egyptian monumental sculpture
  • Also known as: “Abū al Hawl”, “Great Sphinx”, “Sphinx”, and “The Great Sphinx”
  • Address: الجيزة
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Places of Interest Nearby

Highlights include Pyramid of Kheops and Sphinx Stele.

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The Great Pyramid of Giza is the largest Egyptian pyramid. It served as the tomb of pharaoh Khufu, who ruled during the Fourth Dynasty of the Old Kingdom. is situated 540 metres northwest of Great Sphinx of Giza.

Photo: Chanel Wheeler, CC BY-SA 2.0.
The Dream Stele, also called the , is an epigraphic stele erected between the front paws of the Great Sphinx of Giza by the ancient Egyptian pharaoh Thutmose IV in the first year of the king's reign, 1401 BC, during the 18th Dynasty.

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Places in the Area

Nearby places include Nazlet Al Siman and Al Sisi and Kerdasa.

Neighborhood
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is a neighborhood.

Village
is a markaz in Giza Governorate, . It is famed for its hand-made textile crafts, woven carpets, and wall hangings in native traditional patterns. is situated 7 km north of Great Sphinx of Giza.

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Picture yourself in Egypt and you picture this. Imagine Ancient Egypt and this is where your mind will land. Here is , the city just west of Cairo, where on a desert plateau stand the Pyramids, Sphinx and royal tombs of the pharaohs.

Great Sphinx of Giza

Latitude
29.97528° or 29° 58′ 31″ north
Longitude
31.1376° or 31° 8′ 15″ east
Elevation
23 metres (75 feet)
Open location code
7GXHX4GQ+42
Open­Street­Map ID
way 540058405
Open­Street­Map feature
building=­sphinx
Open­Street­Map feature
historic=­monument
Open­Street­Map feature
tourism=­artwork
Open­Street­Map attribute
artwork_type=­statue
Geo­Names ID
362903
Wiki­data ID
Q130958
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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Yue Chinese—“Great Sphinx of Giza” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “Groot Sfinks van Giza”
  • Amharic: “የጊዛ ታላቅ እስፊንክስ”
  • Arabic: “أبو الهول العظيم في الجيزه”
  • Arabic: “أبو الهول”
  • Arabic: “ابو الهول”
  • Armenian: “Մեծ սֆինքս”
  • Armenian: “Մեծ Սֆինքս”
  • Assamese: “স্ফিংছ”
  • Asturian: “Gran Esfinxe de Guiza”
  • Azerbaijani: “Böyük Sfinks”
  • Azerbaijani: “Sfinks”
  • Bashkir: “Ҙур сфинкс”
  • Basque: “Gizako Esfinge Handia”
  • Belarusian: “Вялікі Сфінкс”
  • Belarusian: “Вялікі Сьфінкс”
  • Bosnian: “Velika Sfinga u Gizi”
  • Breton: “Sfiñs Gizah”
  • Bulgarian: “Големият сфинкс в Гиза”
  • Bulgarian: “Големият сфинкс”
  • Bulgarian: “Голям сфинкс в Гиза”
  • Bulgarian: “Сфинкс”
  • Bulgarian: “Сфинксът в Гиза”
  • Catalan: “Esfinx de Giza”
  • Catalan: “Esfinx de Guiza”
  • Catalan: “Gran Esfinx de Gizeh”
  • Catalan: “Gran Esfinx”
  • Catalan: “L’esfinx de Giza”
  • Cebuano: “Sphinx”
  • Chechen: “Джизан Йоккха Сфинкс”
  • Chinese: “人面狮身像”
  • Chinese: “人面獅身像”
  • Chinese: “吉薩獅身人面像”
  • Chinese: “斯芬克斯像”
  • Chinese: “狮身人面像”
  • Chinese: “獅身人面像”
  • Church Slavic: “Большой сфинкс”
  • Chuvash: “Мăн Сфинкс”
  • Croatian: “Velika sfinga u Gizi”
  • Czech: “Velká Sfinga v Gize”
  • Czech: “Velká sfinga v Gíze”
  • Czech: “Velká Sfinga”
  • Danish: “Sfinksen i Giza”
  • Danish: “Sfinksen i Gizeh”
  • Danish: “Sphinxen i Gizeh”
  • Dutch: “Sfinx van Giza”
  • Dutch: “Sfinx van Gizeh”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “ابو الهول”
  • Esperanto: “Granda sfinkso en Gizo”
  • Esperanto: “Sfinkso de Gizo”
  • Esperanto: “Sfinkso”
  • Estonian: “Chephreni sfinks”
  • Estonian: “Suur sfinks”
  • Finnish: “Gizan sfinksi”
  • Finnish: “Gizan suuri sfinksi”
  • Finnish: “Her-Em-Akhet”
  • Finnish: “Suuri sfinksi”
  • French: “Grand Sphinx de Gizeh”
  • French: “Grand sphinx”
  • French: “Sphinx de Gizeh”
  • French: “Sphinx”
  • Galician: “Grande Esfinxe de Giza”
  • Galician: “Grande Esfinxe de Gizeh”
  • Georgian: “გიზის სფინქსი”
  • Georgian: “დიდი სფინქსი”
  • German: “Grosse Sphinx von Gizeh”
  • German: “Große Sphinx von Gizeh”
  • German: “Großer Sphinx von Gizeh”
  • Greek: “Μεγάλη Σφίγγα της Γκίζα”
  • Greek: “Μεγάλη Σφίγγα της Γκίζας”
  • Greek: “Μεγάλη Σφίγγα”
  • Greek: “Σφίγγα της Γκίζα”
  • Hebrew: “הספינקס בגיזה”
  • Hebrew: “הספינקס הגדול בגיזה”
  • Hebrew: “הספינקס הגדול של גיזה”
  • Hebrew: “הספינקס של גיזה”
  • Hebrew: “הספינקס”
  • Hindi: “गीज़ा का महान स्फिंक्स”
  • Hungarian: “Nagy szfinx”
  • Hungarian: “Nagy Szfinx”
  • Icelandic: “Sfinxinn í Gíza”
  • Icelandic: “Sfinxinn”
  • Igbo: “Nnukwu Sphinx”
  • Indonesian: “Sfinks Agung Giza”
  • Indonesian: “Sphinx Agung Giza”
  • Irish: “An Sfioncs Mór”
  • Italian: “Grande Sfinge di Giza”
  • Italian: “Sfinge di Giza”
  • Japanese: “ギザのスフィンクス”
  • Japanese: “ギザの大スフィンクス”
  • Japanese: “大スフィンクス”
  • Javanese: “Sfinks Agung Giza”
  • Komering: “Sphinx Giza”
  • Komi-Permyak: “Ыджыт Сфинкс”
  • Korean: “기자의 대스핑크스”
  • Korean: “스핑크스”
  • Latin: “Magna Sphinx Gizensis”
  • Latvian: “Lielā Sfinksa”
  • Lithuanian: “Didysis Gizos sfinksas”
  • Lithuanian: “Egipto sfinksai”
  • Lithuanian: “Egipto sfinksas”
  • Luxembourgish: “Grouss Sphinx vu Gizeh”
  • Malay: “Sfinks Agung Giza”
  • Malayalam: “ഗിസയിലെ ബൃഹത് സ്ഫിങ്ക്സ്”
  • Mongolian: “гиза ба сфинкс”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Den store sfinksen i Giza”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Sfinksen i Giza”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Sfinksen i Gizeh”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Sfinksen”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Sfinxen i Giza”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Sfinxen i Gizeh”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Sfinxen”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Sphinxen i Giza”
  • Norwegian: “Sfinksen i Giza”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Gran Esfinx de Giza”
  • Ossetian: “Гизæйы Егъау Сфинкс”
  • Persian: “ابوالهول بزرگ جیزه”
  • Polish: “Wielki Sfinks”
  • Portuguese: “Esfinge de Giza”
  • Portuguese: “Esfinge de Gizé”
  • Portuguese: “Esfinge de Guizé”
  • Portuguese: “Grande Esfinge de Gizé”
  • Portuguese: “Grande Esfínge de Gizé”
  • Portuguese: “Grande Esfinge”
  • Romanian: “Marele Sfinx de la Giza”
  • Romanian: “Sfinxul din Gizeh”
  • Romanian: “Sfinxul”
  • Russian: “Большой сфинкс”
  • Russian: “Большой Сфинкс”
  • Russian: “Великий Сфинкс”
  • Russian: “Сфинкс в Гизе”
  • Russian: “Сфинкс”
  • Saraiki: “ابو الہول”
  • Serbian: “Velika sfinga u Gizi”
  • Serbian: “Велика сфинга у Гизи”
  • Serbian: “Велика сфинга”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Velika sfinga u Gizi”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Velika Sfinga”
  • Slovak: “Veľká sfinga”
  • Slovenian: “Sfinga”
  • Slovenian: “velika sfinga v Gizi”
  • Slovenian: “Velika sfinga v Gizi”
  • Slovenian: “Velika sfinga”
  • Spanish: “Gran Esfinge de Giza”
  • Spanish: “Gran Esfinge de Guiza”
  • Spanish: “la Esfinge”
  • Swedish: “Sfinxen i Gisa”
  • Swedish: “Sfinxen i Giza”
  • Swedish: “Sfinxen”
  • Tamil: “கீசாவின் பெரிய ஸ்ஃபிங்ஸ்”
  • Tamil: “கீசாவின் பெரிய ஸ்பிங்ஸ்”
  • Thai: “เกรตสฟิงซ์”
  • Thai: “มหาสฟิงซ์”
  • Tibetan: “སི་ཧྥུན་ཁོ་སི།”
  • Turkish: “Büyük Gize Sfenksi”
  • Twi: “Sphinx”
  • Ukrainian: “Великий Сфінкс”
  • Vietnamese: “Tượng Nhân sư lớn ở Giza”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Dungganan nga Espinghe han Giza”
  • Welsh: “Y Sffincs Mawr”
  • Western Armenian: “Կիզէի Սփինքսը”
  • Western Frisian: “Sfiks fan Gizeh”
  • Western Frisian: “Sfinks fan Giza”
  • Western Frisian: “Sfinks fan Gizeh”
  • Wu Chinese: “狮身人面像”
  • Yue Chinese: “獅身人面像”

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