Assiut
Assiut is in Egypt. 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.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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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
Photo: Hypatia Foundation, CC BY 3.0.
Places of Interest
Highlights include New Asyut Barrage.
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 Upper Egypt. It was completed in 1903.
Assiut
- Categories: big city, archaeological site, and locality
- Location: Asyut Governorate, Middle Egypt, Egypt, North Africa, Africa
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
27.1833° or 27° 10′ 60″ northLongitude
31.1854° or 31° 11′ 7″ eastPopulation
563,000Elevation
56 metres (184 feet)Open location code
7GVH55MP+85OpenStreetMap ID
node 6379231716OpenStreetMap feature
place=cityGeoNames ID
359783Wikidata 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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