Faiyum Oasis

The Faiyum Oasis is a depression or basin in the desert immediately west of the Nile, 62 miles south of , Egypt. The extent of the basin area is estimated at between 1,270 km2 and 1,700 km2.
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Latitude
29.45361° or 29° 27′ 13″ north
Longitude
30.58083° or 30° 34′ 51″ east
Open location code
7GXGFH3J+C8
Geo­Names ID
8556336
Wiki­data ID
Q1399125

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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”
  • Bengali: “ফাইয়ুম মরুদ্যান”
  • Bulgarian: “Фаюм”
  • Catalan: “Oasi de 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”
  • German: “Fayyum-Becken”
  • Hausa: “Ruwa na Faiyum”
  • Hebrew: “נווה המדבר פיום”
  • Hindi: “फ़ैयूम मरूद्यान”
  • Hungarian: “Fajjúm-oázis”
  • 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-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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