Aswan
Aswan is the southernmost city of Egypt, some 870 km south of Cairo, just below the Aswan Dam and Lake Nasser, with a population of 275,000. Aswan is far more relaxed and smaller than Cairo and Luxor.
- City with about 402,000 residents
- …lies at an elevation of around 100 metres (320 feet)
- …has the IATA airport code ASW
- Description: Egyptian city
- Also known as“Assouan”“Es-Suan”“Syena”“Syene”“Syeue”“الأقصر”
Places of Interest
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Elephantine
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El Nabatat Island
El Nabatat Island or Kitchener's Island is a small, oval-shaped island in the Nile at Aswan, Egypt.
Aswan
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Latitude
24.0911° or 24° 5′ 28″ north
Longitude
32.8973° or 32° 53′ 50″ east
UN/LOCODE
EG ASW
Open location code
7GPJ3VRW+CW
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
place = city
Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Afrikaans to Zulu—“Aswan” goes by many names.
AswanAfrikaans
أسوانArabic
ԱսուանArmenian
ՍիենաArmenian
AswanAsturian
ƏsvanAzerbaijani
AssuanBasque
AswanBasque
АсуанBelarusian
আ্সওয়ানBengali
AsuanBosnian
AsouanBreton
АсуанBulgarian
AssuanCatalan
AswanCebuano
Markaz AswānCebuano
ئەسوانCentral Kurdish
亞斯文Chinese
阿斯旺Chinese
AsuanCroatian
AsuánCzech
AswanDanish
AswanDutch
أسوانEgyptian Arabic
AsuanoEsperanto
AssuanEstonian
AswānEstonian
AssuanFinnish
AswanFinnish
SwānFinnish
SwenetFinnish
SyeneFinnish
ΣυήνηFinnish
ⲥⲟⲩⲁⲛFinnish
ΑσουάνGreek
ΑσσουάνGreek
અસ્વાનGujarati
આસવાનGujarati
Aswan, EgyptHausa
אסואןHebrew
अस्वानHindi
आस्वानHindi
AsszuánHungarian
SzüénéHungarian
AswanIndonesian
AswanIrish
AssuanItalian
アスワンJapanese
AswanKabyle
ಆಸ್ವಾನ್Kannada
АсуанKazakh
АсуанKirghiz
아스완Korean
AswanKurdish
EswanKurdish
SyeneLatin
AsuānaLatvian
AsuanasLithuanian
АсуанMacedonian
AswanMalagasy
AswanMalay
അസ്വാൻMalayalam
HeweneMaori
आस्वानMarathi
AswanNorwegian
AswanNorwegian Bokmål
AswanNorwegian Nynorsk
AssoanOccitan (post 1500)
АсуанOssetian
اسوانPersian
AsuanPolish
AssuanRomanian
AswanRomanian
АсванRussian
АссуанRussian
АсуанRussian
СвенэRussian
СиенаRussian
СуанRussian
СунRussian
AswanScots
AswànScottish Gaelic
АсуанSerbian
AsuanSerbo-Croatian
AssuanSicilian
අස්වාන්Sinhala
AswánSlovak
AsuanSlovenian
اسوانSouth Azerbaijani
AsvanTurkish
ئەسۋانUighur
АсуанUkrainian
اسوانUrdu
AsvonUzbek
AssuanVenetian
AswanVietnamese
AswanWaray (Philippines)
اسوانWestern Panjabi
阿斯旺Wu Chinese
阿斯旺Yue Chinese
AswanZulu
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