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.
- Type: City with 241,000 residents
- Description: Egyptian city
- Also known as: “Assuã”, “Assuân”, “Aswân”, “Aswān”, “Es-Suan”, “Siena”, “Siene”, “Sunu”, “Swān”, “Swenet”, “Syena”, “Syène”, “Syeue”, “Szüéné”, “ʾAswān”, “Συήνη”, “ⲥⲟⲩⲁⲛ”, “Асван”, “Ассуан”, “Свенэ”, “Сиена”, “Суан”, “Сун”, “Սիենա”, “الأقصر”, “আ্সওয়ান”, “આસવાન”, “அசுவான்”, and “亞斯文”
Places of Interest
Highlights: Elephantine and El Nabatat Island.
Elephantine
Island
El Nabatat Island
Islet
Aswan
- Categories: big city and locality
- Location: Aswan Governorate, Upper Egypt, Egypt, North Africa, Africa
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Latitude
24.0911° or 24° 5′ 28″ north
Longitude
32.8973° or 32° 53′ 50″ east
Population
241,000
Elevation
99 metres (325 feet)
IATA airport code
ASW
UN/LOCODE
EG ASW
Open location code
7GPJ3VRW+CW
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
place=city
GeoNames ID
Wikidata ID
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In Other Languages
From Afrikaans to Zulu—“Aswan” goes by many names.
- Afrikaans: “Aswan”
- Arabic: “أسوان”
- Armenian: “Ասուան”
- Asturian: “Aswan”
- Azerbaijani: “Əsvan”
- Basque: “Aswan”
- Belarusian: “Асуан”
- Bengali: “আসওয়ান”
- Bosnian: “Asuan”
- Breton: “Asouan”
- Bulgarian: “Асуан”
- Catalan: “Assuan”
- Cebuano: “Aswan”
- Cebuano: “Markaz Aswān”
- Central Kurdish: “ئەسوان”
- Chinese: “阿斯旺”
- Croatian: “Asuan”
- Czech: “Asuán”
- Danish: “Aswan”
- Dutch: “Aswan”
- Egyptian Arabic: “أسوان”
- Egyptian Arabic: “اسوان”
- Esperanto: “Asuano”
- Estonian: “Assuan”
- Estonian: “Aswān”
- Finnish: “Assuan”
- French: “Assouan”
- Galician: “Asuán”
- Georgian: “ასუანი”
- German: “Assuan”
- Greek: “Ασουάν”
- Greek: “Ασσουάν”
- Gujarati: “અસ્વાન”
- Hausa: “Aswan, Egypt”
- Hebrew: “אסואן”
- Hindi: “अस्वान”
- Hindi: “आस्वान”
- Hungarian: “Asszuán”
- Indonesian: “Aswan”
- Irish: “Aswan”
- Italian: “Assuan”
- Japanese: “アスワン”
- Kabyle: “Aswan”
- Kannada: “ಆಸ್ವಾನ್”
- Kazakh: “Асуан”
- Kirghiz: “Асуан”
- Korean: “아스완”
- Kurdish: “Aswan”
- Kurdish: “Eswan”
- Latin: “Syene”
- Latvian: “Asuāna”
- Lithuanian: “Asuanas”
- Macedonian: “Асуан”
- Malagasy: “Aswan”
- Malay: “Aswan”
- Malayalam: “അസ്വാൻ”
- Maori: “Hewene”
- Marathi: “आस्वान”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Aswan”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Aswan”
- Norwegian: “Aswan”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Assoan”
- Ossetian: “Асуан”
- Persian: “اسوان”
- Polish: “Asuan”
- Portuguese: “Assuão”
- Romanian: “Assuan”
- Romanian: “Aswan”
- Russian: “Асуан”
- Scots: “Aswan”
- Scottish Gaelic: “Aswàn”
- Serbian: “Асуан”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Asuan”
- Sicilian: “Assuan”
- Sinhala: “අස්වාන්”
- Slovak: “Aswán”
- Slovenian: “Asuan”
- South Azerbaijani: “اسوان”
- Spanish: “Asuán”
- Swahili: “Aswan”
- Swedish: “Assuan”
- Tajik: “Асвон”
- Tamil: “அஸ்வான்”
- Telugu: “అస్వాన్”
- Thai: “อัสวาน”
- Turkish: “Asvan”
- Uighur: “ئەسۋان”
- Ukrainian: “Асуан”
- Urdu: “اسوان”
- Uzbek: “Asvon”
- Venetian: “Assuan”
- Vietnamese: “Aswan”
- Waray (Philippines): “Aswan”
- Western Panjabi: “اسوان”
- Wu Chinese: “阿斯旺”
- Yue Chinese: “阿斯旺”
- Zulu: “Aswan”
- “أسوان”
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