North Africa
Egypt
Alexandria Governorate

Bibliotheca Alexandrina

The Bibliotheca Alexandrina is a major library and on the shore of the Mediterranean Sea in , Egypt. It is a commemoration of the Library of Alexandria, once one of the largest libraries worldwide, which was lost in antiquity.
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  • Type: Library
  • Description: major library and cultural center in Alexandria, Egypt
  • Also known as: “Alexandrina”, “BA”, “Center for Documentation of Cultural and Natural Heritage”, “EGAXA”, “Library of Alexandria”, and “Maktabat al-Iskandarīyah”

Places of Interest Nearby

Highlights include Planetarium Science Center and Statue of Ptolemy II at Bibliotheca Alexandrina.

Museum
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The Planetarium Science Centre is a department in the Bibliotheca Alexandrina located in , . It promotes science centers as an educational tool.

Work of art
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is a work of art.

Work of art
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is a work of art, which is situated 140 metres north of Bibliotheca Alexandrina.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Shatby and Alexandria.

Hamlet
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is a neighborhood in , .

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is 's second largest city, its largest seaport, and the country's window onto the Mediterranean Sea. The city is a faded shadow of its former glorious cosmopolitan self, but still worth a visit for its many cultural attractions and still-palpable glimpses of its past.

Neighborhood
is a neighborhood in , . is situated 3 km west of Bibliotheca Alexandrina.

Bibliotheca Alexandrina

Latitude
31.20866° or 31° 12′ 31″ north
Longitude
29.90896° or 29° 54′ 32″ east
Elevation
13 metres (43 feet)
Open location code
8G3F6W55+FH
Open­Street­Map ID
way 28825451
Open­Street­Map feature
amenity=­library
Geo­Names ID
8555991
Wiki­data ID
Q501851
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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Yue Chinese—“Bibliotheca Alexandrina” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “مكتبة الأسكندرية الجديدة”
  • Arabic: “مكتبة الإسكندرية الجديدة”
  • Arabic: “مكتبة الإسكندرية”
  • Arabic: “مكتبة الاسكندرية الجديدة”
  • Arabic: “مكتبه الإسكندريه الجديده”
  • Armenian: “Ալեքսանդրինա գրադարան”
  • Asturian: “Bibliotheca Alexandrina”
  • Azerbaijani: “Yeni İsgəndəriyyə Kitabxanası”
  • Bashkir: “Искәндәриә китапханаһы”
  • Basque: “Alexandrina Liburutegia”
  • Basque: “Bibliotheca Alexandrina”
  • Belarusian: “Бібліятэка Александрына”
  • Bulgarian: “Библиотека Александрина”
  • Catalan: “Biblioteca Alexandrina”
  • Catalan: “Bibliotheca Alexandrina”
  • Chinese: “新亚历山大图书馆”
  • Chinese: “新亞歷山大圖書館”
  • Czech: “Bibliotheca Alexandrina”
  • Danish: “Bibliotheca Alexandrina”
  • Dutch: “Bibliotheca Alexandrina”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “مكتبة اسكندريه الجديده”
  • Esperanto: “Biblioteka Alexandrina”
  • Esperanto: “Biblioteko de Aleksandrio”
  • Esperanto: “Bibliotheca Alexandrina”
  • Finnish: “Bibliotheca Alexandrina”
  • French: “Bibliotheca Alexandrina”
  • Galician: “Bibliotheca Alexandrina”
  • Georgian: “ბიბლიოთეკა ალექსანდრინა”
  • German: “Bibliotheca Alexandrina”
  • German: “Maktabat al-Iskandarīya”
  • Greek: “Βιβλιοθήκη της Αλεξάνδρειας”
  • Greek: “Νέα Βιβλιοθήκη της Αλεξάνδρειας”
  • Hebrew: “ביבליותיקה אלכסנדרינה”
  • Indonesian: “Bibliotek Iskandariyah”
  • Indonesian: “Bibliotheca Alexandrina”
  • Italian: “Biblioteca di Alessandria”
  • Italian: “Bibliotheca Alexandrina”
  • Japanese: “新アレクサンドリア図書館”
  • Javanese: “Bibliotheca Alexandrina”
  • Kazakh: “Александрия кiтапханасы”
  • Korean: “신 알렉산드리아 도서관”
  • Latin: “Bibliotheca Alexandrina”
  • Macedonian: “Bibliotheca Alexandrina”
  • Macedonian: “Библиотека Александрина”
  • Malay: “Biblioteka Alexandrina”
  • Malay: “Perpustakaan Alexandria”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Bibliotheca Alexandrina”
  • Norwegian: “Bibliotheca Alexandrina”
  • Persian: “کتابخانه اسکندریه”
  • Persian: “کتابخانهٔ اسکندریه”
  • Persian: “کتابخانه جدید اسکندریه”
  • Polish: “Bibliotheca Alexandrina”
  • Portuguese: “Bibliotheca Alexandrina”
  • Russian: “Библиотека Александрина”
  • Russian: “Новая Александрийская библиотека”
  • Serbian: “Biblioteka Aleksandrina”
  • Serbian: “Библиотека Александрина (Египат)”
  • Serbian: “Библиотека Александрина у Египту”
  • Serbian: “Библиотека Александрина”
  • Serbian: “Египатска библиотека Александрина”
  • Slovenian: “Bibliotheca Alexandrina”
  • Spanish: “Bibliotheca Alexandrina”
  • Swedish: “Bibliotheca Alexandrina”
  • Tagalog: “Aklatan ng Alejandria”
  • Tagalog: “Aklatan ng Alejandría”
  • Tagalog: “Aklatan ng Alexandria”
  • Tagalog: “Aklatang Alehandrino”
  • Tagalog: “Bibliotheca Alexandrina”
  • Tagalog: “Library of Alexandria”
  • Tamil: “அலெக்சாந்திரியா நூலகம்”
  • Turkish: “Yeni İskenderiye Kütüphanesi”
  • Ukrainian: “Александріна”
  • Ukrainian: “Бібліотека Александріна”
  • Ukrainian: “Нова Александрійська бібліотека”
  • Urdu: “جدید کتب خانہ اسکندریہ”
  • Uzbek: “Iskandariya kutubxonasi”
  • Vietnamese: “Bibliotheca Alexandrina”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Bibliotheca Alexandrina”
  • Western Armenian: “Աղեքսանդրիոյ Գրադարան”
  • Yue Chinese: “新亞歷山大圖書館”

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