Egypt
Lower Egypt
Alexandria Governorate

Alexandria

Alexandria 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 – particularly the new Library of Alexandria – and still-palpable glimpses of its past.
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  • Type: City with 4,550,000 residents
  • Description: city in Egypt
  • Also known as: “Al Iskandariya”, “Al Iskandarīyah”, “Alexandria, Egypt”, “El Iskandarīya”, “Iskandariyya”, “Iskindirîya”, “Mediterranean’s Bride”, and “Pearl of the Mediterranean”
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Places of Interest

Highlights include Lighthouse of Alexandria and Bibliotheca Alexandrina.

Lighthouse
The , sometimes called the Pharos of Alexandria, was a lighthouse built by the Ptolemaic Kingdom of Ancient Egypt, during the reign of Ptolemy II Philadelphus.

Library
Photo: CarstenW, CC BY 3.0.
The is a major library and on the shore of the Mediterranean Sea in Alexandria, Egypt. It is a commemoration of the Library of Alexandria, once one of the largest libraries worldwide, which was lost in antiquity.

Mosque
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The Abu al-Abbas al-Mursi Mosque is a , mausoleum, and Sufi shrine, located in the Anfoushi neighbourhood of Alexandria, on the north coast of .

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Shatby and Safar.

Hamlet
Photo: Delengar, CC BY-SA 3.0.
is a neighborhood in Alexandria, .

Neighborhood
is a neighborhood in Alexandria, .

Suburb
Al Wardian is a in Alexandria, Egypt. Al Wardian neighborhood is located in Alexandria, specifically in the western part of Alexandria, near .

Alexandria

Latitude
31.1992° or 31° 11′ 57″ north
Longitude
29.8952° or 29° 53′ 43″ east
Population
4,550,000
Elevation
9 metres (30 feet)
IATA airport code
ALY
United Nations Location Code
EG ALY
Open location code
8G3F5VXW+M3
Open­Street­Map ID
node 27565020
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
361058
Wiki­data ID
Q87
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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Zulu—“Alexandria” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “Alexandrië”
  • Albanian: “Aleksandria”
  • Amharic: “እስክንድርያ”
  • Ancient Greek (to 1453): “Ἀλεξάνδρεια ἡ πρός Αἴγυπτον”
  • Ancient Greek (to 1453): “Ἀλεξάνδρεια”
  • Arabic: “إسكندرية”
  • Arabic: “الأسكندرية”
  • Arabic: “الإسكندرية”
  • Arabic: “الاسكندرية”
  • Arabic: “عروس البحر الأبيض المتوسط”
  • Aragonese: “Aleixandría”
  • Armenian: “Ալեքսանդրիա”
  • Asturian: “Alexandría (Exiptu)”
  • Asturian: “Alexandría”
  • Awadhi: “अलेक्जेंड्रिया”
  • Azerbaijani: “İsgəndəriyyə”
  • Balinese: “Aléksandria”
  • Bashkir: “Әлискәндәриә”
  • Bashkir: “Искәндәриә”
  • Basque: “Alexandria”
  • Belarusian: “Александрыя”
  • Bengali: “আলেকজান্দ্রিয়া”
  • Bhojpuri: “अलेक्जैंड्रिया”
  • Bhojpuri: “सिकंदरिया”
  • Bhojpuri: “सिकन्दरिया”
  • Bishnupriya: “আলেক্সান্ড্রিয়া”
  • Bosnian: “Aleksandrija”
  • Breton: “Aleksandria”
  • Bulgarian: “Александрия”
  • Burmese: “အလက်ဇန္ဒရီးယားမြို့”
  • Catalan: “Alexandria”
  • Cebuano: “Alexandria”
  • Central Kurdish: “ئەسکەندەریە”
  • Chechen: “Искандри”
  • Chechen: “Искандрия”
  • Chinese: “Alexandria”
  • Chinese: “亚历山卓”
  • Chinese: “亚历山大”
  • Chinese: “亚历山大港”
  • Chinese: “亚历山大港市”
  • Chinese: “亚历山大里亚”
  • Chinese: “亞歷山卓”
  • Chinese: “‎亞歷山卓”
  • Chinese: “亞歷山卓里亞”
  • Chinese: “亞歷山大”
  • Chinese: “亞歷山大城”
  • Chinese: “亞歷山大港”
  • Chinese: “亞歷山大里亞”
  • Chinese: “亞歷山太”
  • Chinese: “烏遲散”
  • Corsican: “Alessandria d’Egittu”
  • Corsican: “Alessandria”
  • Corsican: “Alissandria d’Egittu”
  • Corsican: “Alissandria”
  • Croatian: “Aleksandrija”
  • Czech: “Alexandrie”
  • Danish: “Alexandria”
  • Dimli (individual language): “İskenderiya”
  • Dutch: “Alexandrië”
  • Eastern Mari: “Александрий”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “اسكندريه”
  • Esperanto: “Aleksandrio”
  • Estonian: “Aleksandria”
  • Extremaduran: “Alejandria”
  • Extremaduran: “Alejandría”
  • Faroese: “Alexandria”
  • Finnish: “Aleksandria”
  • French: “Alexandrie”
  • Fulah: “Alexandria”
  • Galician: “Alexandría”
  • Georgian: “ალექსანდრია”
  • German: “Alexandria”
  • Greek: “Αλεξάνδρεια”
  • Gujarati: “એલેક્ઝાન્ડ્રિયા”
  • Hakka Chinese: “Alexandria”
  • Hausa: “Alexandria”
  • Hebrew: “אלכסנדריה”
  • Hindi: “सिकन्दरिया”
  • Hungarian: “Alexandria”
  • Icelandic: “Alexandría”
  • Ido: “Alexandria”
  • Inari Sami: “Aleksandria”
  • Indonesian: “Aleksandria”
  • Indonesian: “Iskandariyah”
  • Interlingua: “Alexandria ad Egypto”
  • Interlingue: “Alexandria”
  • Irish: “Cathair Alastair”
  • Italian: “Alessandria d’Egitto”
  • Italian: “Alessandria”
  • Japanese: “アル＝イスカンダリーヤ”
  • Japanese: “アレクサンドリア”
  • Japanese: “アレクサンドレイア”
  • Japanese: “アレクサンドロスの町”
  • Japanese: “エスケンデレイヤ”
  • Japanese: “地中海の真珠”
  • Javanese: “Alexandria”
  • Kabiyè: “Alɛkɩsandrii”
  • Kabyle: “Taskendrit”
  • Kalaallisut: “Alexandria”
  • Kannada: “ಅಲೆಕ್ಸಾಂಡ್ರಿಯ”
  • Kannada: “ಸಿಕಂದರಿಯಾ”
  • Kashmiri: “اسکندریہٕ”
  • Kazakh: “Александрия”
  • Kazakh: “Ескендір қаласы”
  • Kirghiz: “Александрия”
  • Komi-Permyak: “Ӧльӧксандрия”
  • Komi: “Ӧльӧксандрия”
  • Korean: “알렉산드리아”
  • Korean: “엘이쓰잔다리야”
  • Kurdish: “Îskenderiye”
  • Kurdish: “Pirlentaya Deryaya Navîn”
  • Ladino: “Alejandria”
  • Latin: “Alexandria Magna”
  • Latin: “Alexandria”
  • Latvian: “Aleksandrija”
  • Ligurian: “Lusciandria d’Egitto”
  • Limburgan: “Alexandrië”
  • Lingua Franca Nova: “Iskandariya”
  • Lithuanian: “Aleksandrija”
  • Low German: “Aleksandrie”
  • Low German: “Alexandria”
  • Luxembourgish: “Alexandria”
  • Macedonian: “Александрија”
  • Malagasy: “Aleksandria”
  • Malagasy: “Alexandria”
  • Malay: “Iskandariah”
  • Malay: “إسکندرية”
  • Malayalam: “അലക്സാണ്ട്രിയ”
  • Maltese: “Lixandra”
  • Maori: “Arekahārania”
  • Maori: “Arekehānaria”
  • Marathi: “अलेक्झांड्रिया, इजिप्त”
  • Marathi: “अलेक्झांड्रिया”
  • Mazanderani: “اسکندریه”
  • Min Dong Chinese: “Alexandria”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Alexandria”
  • Minangkabau: “Alexandria”
  • Mingrelian: “ალექსანდრია”
  • Mongolian: “Александриа”
  • Mongolian: “Александрия”
  • Moroccan Arabic: “لإسكندرية”
  • Nauru: “Alexandria”
  • Neapolitan: “Alessandria ’e Naggitto”
  • Neapolitan: “Alessandria d’Egitto”
  • Neapolitan: “Alessandria e Naggitto”
  • Nepali: “अलेक्जेन्ड्रिया”
  • Northern Frisian: “Alexandria”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Alexandria”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Alexandria”
  • Norwegian: “Alexandria”
  • Obolo: “Alikisendira”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Alexàndria”
  • Official Aramaic (700-300 BCE): “ܐܠܟܣܢܕܪܝܐ”
  • Old English (ca. 450-1100): “Alaxceaster”
  • Old English (ca. 450-1100): “Alexandria”
  • Ossetian: “Александрия”
  • Panjabi: “ਸਿਕੰਦਰੀਆ”
  • Persian: “اسکندریه”
  • Piemontese: “Lissandria d’Egit”
  • Polish: “Aleksandria”
  • Portuguese: “Alexandria”
  • Pushto: “اسکندریه”
  • Pushto: “الېکزاندريا”
  • Quechua: “Aliksanriya”
  • Quechua: “Iskandariya”
  • Romanian: “Alexandria, Egipt”
  • Romanian: “Alexandria”
  • Russian: “Александрия (Египет)”
  • Russian: “Александрия”
  • Russian: “Аль-Искандария”
  • Russian: “Искандария”
  • Russian: “Искандерия”
  • Russian: “Эль-Искандерия”
  • Rusyn: “Александрия”
  • Sardinian: “Alessandria d’Egitto”
  • Sardinian: “Lisàndria dEgittu”
  • Sardinian: “Lisàndria”
  • Scots: “Alexandria”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “Alecsandria”
  • Serbian: “Александрија”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Aleksandrija”
  • Shona: “Alexandria”
  • Sicilian: “Alessandria d’Eggittu”
  • Sicilian: “Alessandria dEggittu”
  • Sicilian: “Lisciàndra d’Eggittu”
  • Sicilian: “Lisciànnira d’Eggittu”
  • Silesian: “Aleksandryjo”
  • Sindhi: “اسڪاندريا”
  • Sindhi: “اسڪندريا”
  • Sindhi: “اسڪندريه”
  • Sindhi: “اسڪندريہ”
  • Sindhi: “ال اسڪندريا”
  • Sindhi: “اليڪسندريا”
  • Sindhi: “اليگزيندريا”
  • Sindhi: “اليگزينڊريا، مصر”
  • Sindhi: “اليگزينڊريا”
  • Sindhi: “ميڊيٽرينين جي ڪنوار”
  • Sindhi: “ميڊيٽرينين سمنڊ جو موتي”
  • Sinhala: “ඇලෙක්සැන්ඩ්‍රියාව”
  • Slovak: “Alexandria”
  • Slovenian: “Aleksandrija”
  • Somali: “Askandariya”
  • South Azerbaijani: “اسکندریه”
  • South Azerbaijani: “الکزاندریا ،”
  • South Azerbaijani: “ایسکندریه”
  • Spanish: “Alejandria”
  • Spanish: “Alejandría”
  • Swahili: “Aleksandria”
  • Swedish: “Alexandria”
  • Swiss German: “Alexandria”
  • Tagalog: “Alehandriya”
  • Tajik: “Александрия”
  • Tajik: “Искандария”
  • Tamil: “அலெக்சாந்திரியா”
  • Tatar: “Искәндәрия”
  • Telugu: “అలెగ్జాండ్రియా”
  • Thai: “อะเล็กซานเดรีย”
  • Tibetan: “ཡ་ལི་ཧྲན་ད”
  • Tosk Albanian: “Alexandria”
  • Turkish: “İskenderiye”
  • Twi: “Aleksandria”
  • Twi: “Alesandria”
  • Twi: “Alexandria”
  • Uighur: “ئىسكەندەرىيە”
  • Ukrainian: “Александрія”
  • Urdu: “اسکندریہ”
  • Uzbek: “Aleksandriya”
  • Uzbek: “Iskandariya”
  • Venetian: “Ałesandria d’Egito”
  • Venetian: “Ałesandria d’Ezito”
  • Venetian: “Ałesandria dEgito”
  • Veps: “Aleksandrii”
  • Vietnamese: “Á Lịch Sơn Đại Cảng”
  • Vietnamese: “Á Lịch Sơn Trác”
  • Vietnamese: “Alexandria”
  • Vietnamese: “Ô Trì Tan”
  • Volapük: “Iskandariyya”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Alexandria”
  • Welsh: “Alecsandria”
  • Welsh: “Alexandria”
  • Western Armenian: “Ալ–Իսքանդարիա”
  • Western Armenian: “Աղեքսանդրիա”
  • Western Armenian: “Աղեքսանտրիա”
  • Western Frisian: “Aleksanderje”
  • Western Frisian: “Aleksandrje”
  • Western Panjabi: “اسکندریہ”
  • Wolof: “Alegsàndiri”
  • Wu Chinese: “亚历山大”
  • Wu Chinese: “亚历山大港”
  • Yiddish: “אלעקסאנדריע”
  • Yue Chinese: “亞歷山大”
  • Yue Chinese: “亞歷山大港”
  • Zulu: “Alexandria, Gibhithe”
  • “Alexandria”

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