El Kharga Airport
El Kharga Airport is an airport serving the city of El Kharga, Egypt.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Aerodrome
- Description: airport serving the city of El Kharga, Egypt
- Also known as: “HEKG”, “Kharga”, and “UVL”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Temple of Hibis and Bagawat Necropolis.
Temple of Hibis
Photo: ASartan, CC BY-SA 3.0.
The Temple of Hibis is the largest and best preserved ancient Egyptian temple in the Kharga Oasis, as well as the only structure in Egypt dating to the Saite-Persian period which has come down to modern times in relatively good condition.
Bagawat Necropolis
Archaeological site
Photo: RolandUnger, CC BY-SA 3.0.
El Bagawat, is an ancient Christian cemetery, and one of the oldest in the world, which functioned at the Kharga Oasis in southern-central Egypt from the 3rd to the 7th century AD.
Ain el-Kharab
Archaeological site
Photo: RolandUnger, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Ain el-Kharab is an archaeological site.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Kharga Oasis.
Kharga Oasis
The Kharga Oasis lit. 'the outer'; Coptic: ⲟⲩⲁϩ ⲛ̀ϩⲏⲃ wah enhib, "Oasis of Hib", ⲟⲩⲁϩ ⲙ̀ⲯⲟⲓ wah empsoi "Oasis of Psoi") is the southernmost of Egypt's five western oases.
El Kharga Airport
- Categories: airport, commercial traffic aerodrome, and transportation
- Location: New Valley Governorate, Egypt, North Africa, Africa
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Latitude
25.46935° or 25° 28′ 10″ northLongitude
30.58562° or 30° 35′ 8″ eastElevation
58 metres (190 feet)IATA airport code
UVLICAO airport code
HEKGOpen location code
7GQGFH9P+P6OpenStreetMap ID
way 626040988OpenStreetMap feature
aeroway=aerodrome
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Uzbek—“El Kharga Airport” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “مطار الخارجة”
- Arabic: “ميناء الخارجة الجوى”
- Cebuano: “El Kharga Airport”
- Egyptian Arabic: “مطار الخارجه”
- French: “aérodrome de Kharga”
- French: “Aérodrome de Kharga”
- French: “Aéroport d’Al-Kharga”
- French: “Al-Kharga”
- French: “HEKG”
- French: “UVL”
- German: “Flughafen El Kharga”
- Indonesian: “HEKG”
- Indonesian: “UVL”
- Italian: “Aeroporto di El Kharga”
- Japanese: “ハルガ空港”
- Romanian: “Aeroportul El Kharga”
- Russian: “Эль-Харга (аэропорт)”
- Russian: “Эль-Харга”
- Swedish: “El Kharga Airport”
- Uzbek: “Al-Xarga aeroporti”
Localities in the Area
Explore places such as Al Zohor Housing and The Museum District.
Notable Places Nearby
Highlights include Temple of Hibis and Ain Soliman Kashif.
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