Egypt
Lower Egypt
Kafr el-Sheikh Governorate

Desouk

Desouk is a city in with 150,000 people. Desouk is renowned for the presence of Ibrahim El Desouki Mosque, which attracts over a million visitors annually on average.
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  • Type: City with 135,000 residents
  • Description: city in Egypt
  • Also known as: “Dasūq” and “Disūq”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Rahmaniyah Island and Desouk Stadium.

Island
of Jazīrat ar Raḩmānīyah is an island in the Rosetta branch of the Nile River in , Markaz of Rahmaniya in . It is located just south of Desouk City and north of and rolled by OBaid and Saqer.

Stadium
is a multi-purpose stadium in Desouk, Egypt. It is used mostly for football matches. The stadium was opened on 1 January 1976. The stadium has a capacity of 3,000.

Mosque
Photo: Faris knight, CC0.
The Sidi Ibrahim El Desouki Mosque is a Sufi and shrine complex in Desouk, . The name of this mosque is derived from the Sufi mystic and Ash'ari scholar Ibrahim al-Dasuqi, who is buried in the shrine of the building alongside his brother, Sharaf al-Din Musa.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include El Rahmaniya.

Town
Photo: Faris knight, CC BY-SA 4.0.
is a city and markaz in , .

Desouk

Latitude
31.1289° or 31° 7′ 44″ north
Longitude
30.65° or 30° 39′ east
Population
135,000
Elevation
11 metres (36 feet)
Open location code
8G3G4MH2+G2
Open­Street­Map ID
way 610865131
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Open­Street­Map feature
tourism=­yes
Geo­Names ID
358108
Wiki­data ID
Q395863
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Satellite Map

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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Zulu—“Desouk” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “Desuk”
  • Albanian: “Desouk”
  • Albanian: “Desuk”
  • Arabic: “بندر دسوق”
  • Arabic: “دسوق، كفر الشيخ”
  • Arabic: “دسوق”
  • Arabic: “عروس النيل”
  • Arabic: “مدينة دسوق”
  • Armenian: “Դիսուք”
  • Asturian: “Desouk”
  • Azerbaijani: “Dəsuq”
  • Banjar: “Dosouk”
  • Bengali: “দেসুক”
  • Bulgarian: “Дисук”
  • Catalan: “Dosoq”
  • Cebuano: “Disūq”
  • Chinese: “迪斯沃克”
  • Croatian: “Disuk”
  • Czech: “Desouk”
  • Danish: “Disuq”
  • Dutch: “Desouk”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “دسوق”
  • Esperanto: “Dosouk”
  • Estonian: “Disūq”
  • Finnish: “Disuk”
  • French: “Dessouk”
  • Georgian: “დისუკი”
  • Georgian: “დისუქი”
  • German: “Disuk”
  • German: “Disuq”
  • German: “Disūq”
  • German: “Dusuq”
  • Greek: “Ντεσούκ”
  • Gujarati: “દેસૌક”
  • Hindi: “देसूक”
  • Icelandic: “Dúsok”
  • Indonesian: “Dosouk”
  • Irish: “Desouk”
  • Italian: “Dasuq”
  • Italian: “Disuq”
  • Japanese: “ディスーク”
  • Javanese: “Disuq”
  • Kalaallisut: “Dosouq”
  • Kannada: “ಡಾಸೌಕ್”
  • Kazakh: “Dïswk”
  • Kazakh: “Дисук қаласы”
  • Kazakh: “Дисук”
  • Kazakh: “دىيسۋك”
  • Korean: “데숙”
  • Korean: “디수크”
  • Latvian: “Disuka”
  • Lithuanian: “Disukas”
  • Malagasy: “Disūq”
  • Malay: “Desouk”
  • Marathi: “डेसोऊक”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Desouk”
  • Norwegian: “Desouk”
  • Persian: “دسوق”
  • Polish: “Disuk”
  • Portuguese: “Desouk”
  • Pushto: “دسوق”
  • Russian: “Дисук”
  • Scots: “Desouk”
  • Serbian: “Desuk”
  • Serbian: “Десук”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Disuk”
  • Sinhala: “, දෙසොඋක්”
  • South Azerbaijani: “دسوق”
  • Spanish: “Desouk”
  • Swahili: “Disuk”
  • Swedish: “Desouk”
  • Swedish: “Disuq”
  • Swedish: “Disūq”
  • Tamil: “டெசௌக்”
  • Telugu: “దేసుక్”
  • Thai: “ดิซูก”
  • Thai: “โดซุก”
  • Turkish: “Dısuk”
  • Ukrainian: “Дісук”
  • Urdu: “دسوق”
  • Uzbek: “Desouk”
  • Venetian: “Disuq”
  • Vietnamese: “Desouk”
  • Western Panjabi: “دسوق”
  • Zeeuws: “Desouk”
  • Zulu: “Desouk”
  • “دسوق”

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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikivoyage page “Desouk”. Photo: Pentaur, Public domain.