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”, “Asut”, “Asyout”, “Asyut”, “Asyüt”, “Licopolis”, “Licópolis”, “Līkūpūlīs”, “Sauty”, “Siout”, “Siut”, “Siyut”, “أسيوط‎”, “أسيوط (مدينة)”, “الوكايل”, “سيوط”, “مدينة أسيوط”, “وكايل”, “アスユート”, “艾西尤特”, and “阿西尤特”
  • Address: أسيوط
Photo: Hypatia Foundation, CC BY 3.0.

Places of Interest

Highlights: 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 .

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
UN/LOCODE
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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In Other Languages

From Amharic to Zulu—“Assiut” goes by many names.
  • Amharic: “አስዩት”
  • Arabic: “أسيوط”
  • 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”
  • Czech: “Asijút”
  • 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: “Asyūṭ”
  • Greek: “Ασιούτ”
  • Gujarati: “અસ્યુત”
  • Hebrew: “אסיוט”
  • Hindi: “अस्युट”
  • Hindi: “अस्यूत”
  • Hungarian: “Aszjút”
  • Igbo: “Asyut”
  • Indonesian: “Asyut”
  • Indonesian: “Asyuth”
  • Irish: “Asyut”
  • Irish: “Asyút”
  • Italian: “Asyūṭ”
  • Japanese: “アシュート”
  • 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”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “Asyùt”
  • Serbian: “Асјут”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Asjut”
  • Silesian: “Asjut”
  • Sinhala: “අස්යුට්”
  • Slovak: “Asjút”
  • Slovenian: “Asjut”
  • South Azerbaijani: “اسیوط”
  • Spanish: “Asiut”
  • 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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