Faiyum Oasis
The Faiyum Oasis is a depression or basin in the desert immediately west of the Nile river, 62 miles south of Cairo, Egypt. The extent of the basin area is estimated at between 1,270 km2 and 1,700 km2.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Pool
- Description: oasis in Egypt
- Also known as: “Fayyum”
Faiyum Oasis
- Categories: oasis and body of water
- Location: Faiyum Governorate, Egypt, North Africa, Africa
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Uzbek—“Faiyum Oasis” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “منخفض الفيوم”
- Armenian: “Ֆայյում (օազիս)”
- Armenian: “Ֆայյում”
- Belarusian: “Фаюмскі аазіс”
- Bulgarian: “Фаюм”
- Catalan: “Oasi de Faium”
- Catalan: “oasi del Faium”
- Catalan: “Oasi del Faium”
- Chinese: “法尤姆盆地”
- Chinese: “法尤姆綠洲”
- Czech: “Fajjúm”
- Czech: “Fajjúmská oáza”
- Czech: “Oáza Fajjúm”
- Dutch: “Faiyum Oasis”
- Dutch: “Fajoem-depressie”
- Egyptian Arabic: “منخفض الفيوم”
- Finnish: “Faijumin keidas”
- French: “oasis du Fayoum”
- French: “Oasis du Fayoum”
- German: “Fayyum-Becken”
- Hebrew: “נווה המדבר פיום”
- Hungarian: “Fajjúm-oázis”
- Indonesian: “Oasis faiyum”
- Indonesian: “Oasis Faiyum”
- Italian: “Oasi del Fayyum”
- Japanese: “ファイユーム・オアシス”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Oasís de Faium”
- Persian: “واحه فیوم”
- Polish: “Al Fayyum”
- Polish: “Al-Fajjum”
- Polish: “Al-Fajum”
- Polish: “Fajjum”
- Polish: “Fajum”
- Polish: “Oaza Fajum”
- Portuguese: “Oásis de Faium”
- Portuguese: “Oásis de Fayum”
- Russian: “Файюмский оазис”
- Russian: “Фаюмский оазис”
- Russian: “Эль-Файюм”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Oaza Fajum”
- Spanish: “Oasis de Fayún”
- Swedish: “Al Fayyum”
- Swedish: “Al Fayyūm”
- Swedish: “Al-Fayyum”
- Swedish: “Al-Fayyūm”
- Swedish: “Crocodilopolis”
- Swedish: “El Faiyum”
- Swedish: “El Fayoum”
- Swedish: “Faijum”
- Swedish: “Fajum”
- Swedish: “Fayoum”
- Swedish: “Fayoumoasen”
- Swedish: “Fayum”
- Swedish: “Fayyum”
- Turkish: “Fayyum”
- Turkish: “Feyyum Vahası”
- Turkish: “Feyyum”
- Ukrainian: “Западина Файюм”
- Ukrainian: “Оаза Ель-Файюм”
- Ukrainian: “Файюмська западина”
- Ukrainian: “Файюмська оаза”
- Ukrainian: “Фаюмська оаза”
- Uzbek: “Fayyum”
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