Obour
Obour is a city in the Qalyubia Governorate, about 35 kilometers north-east of Cairo. The city has 142,955 residents. It is named to honor the crossing of the Bar Lev Line by the Egyptian Army during Operation Badr in 1973, part of the October War.
Wikimedia, Public domain.- City with about 1,440 residents
- …lies at an elevation of around 30 metres (100 feet)
- Description: human settlement in Egypt
- Also known as“Al Ubour”“Al-‘Ubur”“Al-Obour”“El Ubour”“Obour City”
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Latitude
30.1914° or 30° 11′ 29″ north
Longitude
31.4505° or 31° 27′ 2″ east
Open location code
8G2H5FR2+H6
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OpenStreetMap feature
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Zulu—“Obour” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “العبور”
- Arabic: “مدينة العبور”
- Asturian: “Obour City”
- Chinese: “阿布尔”
- Dutch: “Obour City”
- Dutch: “Obour”
- Egyptian Arabic: “العبور”
- Esperanto: “Ubur”
- French: “El Obour”
- French: “Obour”
- German: “Al-Ubur”
- German: “Obour City”
- Greek: “Ομπούρ”
- Hausa: “Obour (birni)”
- Hausa: “Obour”
- Hebrew: “אל-עובור”
- Irish: “Al-Ubur”
- Irish: “Obour City”
- Japanese: “オーブル”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Obour”
- Norwegian: “Obour”
- Persian: “شهر عبور”
- Polish: “Al-Ubur”
- Russian: “Ал-Убур”
- Russian: “Эль-Убур”
- Spanish: “Al-‘Ubūr”
- Spanish: “El Obour”
- Swedish: “Obour City”
- Swedish: “Obour”
- Thai: “อัลอุบูร”
- Ukrainian: “Ель-Убур”
- Urdu: “عبور (شہر)”
- Urdu: “عبور”
- Zulu: “Obour (idolobha)”
- Zulu: “Obour”
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