Egypt
Upper Egypt
Aswan Governorate

Aswan

Aswan is the southernmost city of , some 870 km south of , just below the Aswan Dam and Lake Nasser, with a population of 275,000. Aswan is far more relaxed and smaller than and .
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  • Type: City with 241,000 residents
  • Description: Egyptian city
  • Also known as: “Assouan”, “Aswân”, “Aswān”, “Es-Suan”, “Syena”, “Syene”, “Syeue”, and “الأقصر”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Elephantine and El Nabatat Island.

Island
Photo: RolandUnger, CC BY-SA 3.0.
is an on the Nile, forming part of the city of Aswan in . The archaeological digs on the island became a World Heritage Site in 1979, along with other examples of Upper Egyptian architecture, as part of the "Nubian Monuments from Abu Simbel to Philae".

Islet
Photo: Ovedc, CC BY-SA 4.0.
or Kitchener's Island is a small, oval-shaped island in the Nile at Aswan, . It is less than a kilometer long and its width is less than ½ a kilometer. The Aswan Botanical Garden is located on the island.

Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.
The is the largest known ancient obelisk and is located in the northern region of the stone quarries of ancient Egypt in Aswan, .

Aswan

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
United Nations Location Code
EG ASW
Open location code
7GPJ3VRW+CW
Open­Street­Map ID
node 1667671341
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
359792
Wiki­data ID
Q29888
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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Zulu—“Aswan” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “Aswan”
  • Arabic: “أسوان”
  • Armenian: “Ասուան”
  • Armenian: “Սիենա”
  • Asturian: “Aswan”
  • Azerbaijani: “Əsvan”
  • Basque: “Assuan”
  • Basque: “Aswan”
  • Belarusian: “Асуан”
  • Bengali: “আসওয়ান”
  • Bengali: “আ্সওয়ান”
  • Bosnian: “Asuan”
  • Bulgarian: “Асуан”
  • Catalan: “Assuan”
  • Cebuano: “Aswan”
  • Cebuano: “Markaz Aswān”
  • Central Kurdish: “ئەسوان”
  • Chinese: “亞斯文”
  • 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”
  • Finnish: “Aswan”
  • Finnish: “Swān”
  • Finnish: “Swenet”
  • Finnish: “Syene”
  • Finnish: “Συήνη”
  • Finnish: “ⲥⲟⲩⲁⲛ”
  • French: “Assouan”
  • Galician: “Asuán - أسوان”
  • Galician: “Asuán”
  • Georgian: “ასუანი”
  • German: “Assuan”
  • German: “Assuân”
  • German: “Eswan”
  • German: “Siene”
  • German: “Sunu”
  • German: “Syene”
  • German: “Syène”
  • Greek: “Ασουάν”
  • Greek: “Ασσουάν”
  • Gujarati: “અસ્વાન”
  • Gujarati: “આસવાન”
  • Hausa: “Aswan, Egypt”
  • Hebrew: “אסואן”
  • Hindi: “असवान”
  • 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: “Assuã”
  • Portuguese: “Assuão”
  • Portuguese: “Siena”
  • Portuguese: “Syene”
  • Romanian: “Assuan”
  • Romanian: “Aswan”
  • Russian: “Асван”
  • Russian: “Ассуан”
  • Russian: “Асуан”
  • Russian: “Свенэ”
  • Russian: “Сиена”
  • Russian: “Суан”
  • Russian: “Сун”
  • Scots: “Aswan”
  • Serbian: “Асуан”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Asuan”
  • Sicilian: “Assuan”
  • Sinhala: “අස්වාන්”
  • Slovak: “Aswán”
  • Slovenian: “Asuan”
  • South Azerbaijani: “اسوان”
  • Spanish: “Asuan”
  • Spanish: “Asuán”
  • Swahili: “Aswan”
  • Swedish: “Assuan”
  • Tajik: “Асвон”
  • Tamil: “அசுவான்”
  • 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”

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