North Africa
Egypt
Giza Governorate

Giza

Picture yourself in Egypt and you picture this. Imagine Ancient Egypt and this is where your mind will land. Here is Giza, the city just west of Cairo, where on a desert plateau stand the Pyramids, Sphinx and royal tombs of the pharaohs.
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  • Type: City with 2,680,000 residents
  • Description: city in Egypt
  • Also known as: “El Gizeh”, “El-Gîza”, “Geeza”, “Ghizeh”, “Gizah”, “Gizeh”, “Jiza”, and “Jīzah”
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Places of Interest

Highlights include Dahab Island.

Island
Photo: RolandUnger, CC BY-SA 3.0.
is a Nile island located in the metropolitan region of near the eastern Nile shore south of and near of Qorsaya Island. The island belongs to Giza and has a strong agricultural character.

Giza

Latitude
29.98708° or 29° 59′ 14″ north
Longitude
31.21181° or 31° 12′ 43″ east
Population
2,680,000
Elevation
19 metres (62 feet)
IATA airport code
SPX
United Nations Location Code
EG AGZ
Open location code
7GXHX6P6+RP
Open­Street­Map ID
node 27565120
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
360995
Wiki­data ID
Q81788
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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Zulu—“Giza” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “Giza”
  • Afrikaans: “Gizeh”
  • Albanian: “Giza”
  • Arabic: “الجيزة”
  • Arabic: “مدينة الجيزة”
  • Arabic: “مدينه الجيزه”
  • Armenian: “Գիզա”
  • Asturian: “Giza”
  • Asturian: “Gizeh”
  • Asturian: “Guiza”
  • Azerbaijani: “Cizə”
  • Basque: “Giza”
  • Belarusian: “Гіза”
  • Belarusian: “Эль-Гіза”
  • Belarusian: “Эль-Джыза”
  • Bengali: “গিজা”
  • Bosnian: “Giza”
  • Breton: “Gizah”
  • Breton: “Gizeh”
  • Bulgarian: “Гиза”
  • Catalan: “Giza”
  • Catalan: “Gizeh”
  • Catalan: “Guiza”
  • Catalan: “Hernecher”
  • Catalan: “Imentet”
  • Cebuano: “Al Jīzah”
  • Central Kurdish: “گیزە”
  • Chechen: “ЖизахӀ”
  • Chinese: “Giza”
  • Chinese: “吉札”
  • Chinese: “吉萨”
  • Chinese: “吉薩”
  • Chinese: “基沙”
  • Chinese: “基泽”
  • Chinese: “基萨”
  • Chuvash: “Гиза”
  • Croatian: “Giza”
  • Czech: “Gíza”
  • Danish: “Giza”
  • Danish: “Gizeh”
  • Dutch: “Giza”
  • Dutch: “Gizeh (stad)”
  • Dutch: “Gizeh”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “الجيزة”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “مدينه الجيزه”
  • Esperanto: “Giza”
  • Esperanto: “Gizeh”
  • Esperanto: “Gizo”
  • Estonian: “Al-Jizah”
  • Estonian: “Al-Jīzah”
  • Estonian: “Giza”
  • Finnish: “Giza”
  • French: “Giza”
  • French: “Gîza”
  • French: “Gizeh”
  • French: “Gizèh”
  • French: “Gizhe”
  • French: “Guizé”
  • French: “Guizèh”
  • Fulah: “Giza”
  • Galician: “Giza”
  • Galician: “Gizeh”
  • Georgian: “გიზა”
  • German: “Al-Dschiza”
  • German: “al-Gīza”
  • German: “Gisa”
  • German: “Giseh”
  • German: “Gîza”
  • German: “Gīza”
  • German: “Gize”
  • German: “Gizeh”
  • Greek: “Γκίζα”
  • Gujarati: “ગિઝા”
  • Hausa: “Giza”
  • Hebrew: “גיזה”
  • Hindi: “गीज़ा”
  • Hungarian: “Gíza”
  • Ido: “Giza”
  • Indonesian: “Giza”
  • Interlingua: “Giza”
  • Interlingue: “Giza”
  • Irish: “Giza”
  • Italian: “Giza”
  • Italian: “Gizeh”
  • Italian: “Piana di Giza”
  • Japanese: “ギーザ”
  • Japanese: “ギザ”
  • Japanese: “ギゼ”
  • Kabyle: “Tizumag”
  • Kalaallisut: “Giza”
  • Kannada: “ಗೀಜ”
  • Kannada: “ಗೀಜ಼”
  • Kannada: “ಗೀಝ”
  • Kirghiz: “Гиза”
  • Korean: “기자”
  • Korean: “기제”
  • Latin: “Giza”
  • Latin: “Gizeh”
  • Latvian: “Giza”
  • Latvian: “Gīza”
  • Lithuanian: “Giza”
  • Low German: “Piramides van Giza”
  • Low German: “Pyramides van Giza”
  • Luxembourgish: “Gizeh”
  • Macedonian: “Гиза”
  • Malagasy: “Giza”
  • Malay: “Giza”
  • Malay: “جيزة”
  • Maltese: “Giza”
  • Manipuri: “ꯒꯤꯓꯥ”
  • Marathi: “गिझा”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Giza”
  • Mingrelian: “გიზა”
  • Mongolian: “Гиза хот”
  • Mongolian: “Гиза”
  • Nauru: “Giza”
  • Neapolitan: “Giza”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Giza”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Gisa”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Giza”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Gizah”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Gizeh”
  • Norwegian: “Giza”
  • Obolo: “Giza”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Giza”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Gizeh”
  • Ossetian: “Эль-Гизæ”
  • Panjabi: “ਜੀਜ਼ਾ”
  • Persian: “جیزا”
  • Persian: “جیزه”
  • Polish: “Al-Dżiza”
  • Polish: “Giza”
  • Portuguese: “Giza”
  • Portuguese: “Gizé”
  • Romanian: “Giza”
  • Romanian: “Gizeh”
  • Russian: “Гиза”
  • Russian: “Эль-Гиза”
  • Scots: “Giza”
  • Serbian: “Al-ǧīzah”
  • Serbian: “Eg-Gīza”
  • Serbian: “Geezeh”
  • Serbian: “Ghizeh”
  • Serbian: “Giza”
  • Serbian: “Gizeh”
  • Serbian: “Гиза”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Giza”
  • Silesian: “Giza”
  • Sinhala: “ගීසා”
  • Slovak: “Al-Džíza”
  • Slovak: “Gíza”
  • Slovenian: “Giza”
  • Slovenian: “Gizeh”
  • South Azerbaijani: “جیزه”
  • Spanish: “Ghizeh”
  • Spanish: “Giza”
  • Spanish: “Gizeh”
  • Spanish: “Guiza”
  • Swahili: “Giza”
  • Swedish: “Al Jizah”
  • Swedish: “Al Jīzah”
  • Swedish: “Al-Jizah”
  • Swedish: “El-Giza”
  • Swedish: “Gisa”
  • Swedish: “Gise”
  • Swedish: “Giza”
  • Swedish: “Gizah”
  • Swedish: “Gizeh”
  • Tajik: “Ҷиза”
  • Tamil: “கிசா”
  • Tamil: “கீசா”
  • Telugu: “గిజ”
  • Thai: “Giza”
  • Thai: “กีซา”
  • Thai: “กีซ่า”
  • Thai: “อัลจีซะห์”
  • Thai: “เอลกีซา”
  • Turkish: “Giza”
  • Turkish: “Gize”
  • Twi: “Giza”
  • Uighur: “جىزە”
  • Ukrainian: “Гіза”
  • Ukrainian: “Ґіза”
  • Ukrainian: “Ель-Гіза”
  • Urdu: “جیزہ”
  • Uzbek: “Gʻizo”
  • Uzbek: “Giza”
  • Veps: “Giz”
  • Vietnamese: “Giza”
  • Vietnamese: “Gizeh”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Giza”
  • Welsh: “Giza”
  • Western Armenian: “Կիզա”
  • Western Frisian: “Gizeh”
  • Western Panjabi: “جیزہ”
  • Western Panjabi: “غیزہ”
  • Wu Chinese: “吉萨”
  • Yue Chinese: “吉薩”
  • Zulu: “Giza”

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