Assiut

Assiut is in . Like a piece of Heaven between Al-Minia to the north and Souhag to the south, Assiut twinkles in the heart of Egypt thanks to its middle location among the Egyptian governorates.
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  • Type: City with 563,000 residents
  • Description: City in Egypt
  • Also known as: Asioot”, “Assuit”, “Asyout”, “Asyut”, “Licopolis”, “Līkūpūlīs”, “Siout”, and “Siut
  • Address: أسيوط

Places of Interest

Highlights include New Asyut Barrage.

Power station
Photo: MontyofEgypt, Public domain.
The Assiut Barrage is a dam on the Nile River in the city of Assiut in . It was completed in 1903.

Assiut

Latitude
27.1833° or 27° 10′ 60″ north
Longitude
31.1854° or 31° 11′ 7″ east
Population
563,000
Elevation
56 metres (184 feet)
IATA airport code
ATZ
United Nations Location Codes
EG AST and EG ATZ
Open location code
7GVH55MP+85
Open­Street­Map ID
node 6379231716
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
359783
Wiki­data ID
Q29962
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Satellite Map

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In Other Languages

From Amharic to Zulu—“Assiut” goes by many names.
  • Amharic: አስዩት
  • Arabic: أسيوط (مدينة)
  • Arabic: أسيوط
  • Arabic: أسيوط‎
  • Arabic: الوكايل
  • Arabic: سيوط
  • Arabic: مدينة أسيوط
  • Arabic: وكايل
  • Armenian: Ասյութ
  • Armenian: Ասյուտ
  • Asturian: Asyut
  • Azerbaijani: Əsyut
  • Basque: Asiut
  • Belarusian: Асьют
  • Bengali: আসিউত
  • Bulgarian: Асют
  • Catalan: Assiut
  • Cebuano: Asyūţ (kapital sa lalawigan sa Ehipto)
  • Cebuano: Asyūţ
  • Chinese: 艾斯尤特
  • Chinese: 艾西尤特
  • Chinese: 阿西尤特
  • Czech: Asijút
  • Czech: Asjút
  • Danish: Asyut
  • Dutch: Assioet
  • Egyptian Arabic: اسيوط
  • Esperanto: Asjuto
  • Estonian: Assiut
  • Estonian: Asyūţ
  • Finnish: Assiut
  • Finnish: Asyut
  • French: Assiout
  • Georgian: ასიუტი
  • German: Assiut
  • German: Asyut
  • German: Asyüt
  • German: Asyūṭ
  • German: Siyut
  • Greek: Ασιούτ
  • Gujarati: અસ્યુત
  • Hebrew: אסיוט
  • Hindi: असयूत
  • Hindi: अस्युट
  • Hungarian: Aszjút
  • Igbo: Asyut
  • Igbo: Siout
  • Indonesian: Asyut
  • Indonesian: Asyuth
  • Irish: Asyut
  • Italian: Assiut
  • Italian: Asyut
  • Italian: Asyūṭ
  • Japanese: アシュート
  • Japanese: アスユート
  • Kabyle: Asyuṭ
  • Kannada: ಅಸ್ಯುತ್
  • Korean: 아시우트
  • Latin: Lycopolis
  • Latvian: Asjūta
  • Lithuanian: Asjutas
  • Malay: Asyut
  • Marathi: अशुट
  • Norwegian Bokmål: Asyut
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: Asyut
  • Norwegian: Asyut
  • Occitan (post 1500): Asyut
  • Persian: اسیوط
  • Polish: Asjut
  • Portuguese: Assiut
  • Portuguese: Assiute
  • Romanian: Assiut
  • Russian: Асьют
  • Scots: Asyut
  • Serbian: Асјут
  • Serbo-Croatian: Asjut
  • Silesian: Asjut
  • Sinhala: අස්යුට්
  • Slovak: Asjút
  • Slovenian: Asjut
  • South Azerbaijani: اسیوط
  • Spanish: Asiut
  • Spanish: Asut
  • Spanish: Licópolis
  • Spanish: Sauty
  • Swahili: Asyut
  • Swedish: Asyut
  • Tajik: Асют
  • Tamil: அஸ்யூட்
  • Tamil: அஸ்யூத்
  • Telugu: అస్యూట్
  • Thai: อัสยูฏ
  • Turkish: Asyut
  • Ukrainian: Асьют
  • Urdu: اسیوط
  • Uzbek: Asyut
  • Venetian: Asyūṭ
  • Vietnamese: Asyut
  • Waray (Philippines): Asyut
  • Welsh: Assiout
  • Western Panjabi: اسیوت
  • Wu Chinese: 艾斯尤特
  • Yue Chinese: 艾斯尤特
  • Zulu: Asyut

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