Egypt
Upper Egypt
Aswan Governorate

Edfu

Edfu is an Egyptian city, located on the west bank of the Nile River between and , with a population of approximately 60,000 people. Edfu is the site of the Ptolemaic Temple of Horus and an ancient settlement, Tell Edfu.
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  • Type: Town with 166,000 residents
  • Description: Egyptian city, located on the west bank of the Nile River
  • Also known as: “Behdet”, “Idfu”, “Idfū”, “Idfu Baḥari”, “Idfū Baḩri”, and “Idfu, Idfu”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Temple of Edfu.

Photo: AdMeskens, CC BY-SA 3.0.
The is an Egyptian temple located on the west bank of the Nile in Edfu, . The city was known in the Hellenistic period in Koine Greek as Ἀπόλλωνος πόλις and in Latin as Apollonopolis Magna, after the chief god Horus, who was identified as Apollo under the interpretatio graeca.

Edfu

Latitude
24.9803° or 24° 58′ 49″ north
Longitude
32.8747° or 32° 52′ 29″ east
Population
166,000
Elevation
90 metres (295 feet)
Open location code
7GPJXVJF+4V
Open­Street­Map ID
node 768078792
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­town
Geo­Names ID
355635
Wiki­data ID
Q239107
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Satellite Map

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In Other Languages

From Amharic to Zulu—“Edfu” goes by many names.
  • Amharic: “ኤድፉ”
  • Arabic: “Edfu”
  • Arabic: “إدفو”
  • Arabic: “ادفو”
  • Armenian: “Իդֆու”
  • Asturian: “Edfu”
  • Azerbaijani: “İdfu”
  • Basque: “Edfu”
  • Bulgarian: “Аполинополис Магна”
  • Bulgarian: “Бехдет”
  • Bulgarian: “Бехедет”
  • Bulgarian: “Джеб”
  • Bulgarian: “Едфу”
  • Catalan: “Apollinopolis Magna”
  • Catalan: “Apol·linòpolis Magna”
  • Catalan: “Apollonopolis Magna”
  • Catalan: “Apol·lonòpolis Magna”
  • Catalan: “Apollonos Superioris”
  • Catalan: “Behdet”
  • Catalan: “Behedet”
  • Catalan: “Djeba”
  • Catalan: “Edfu”
  • Catalan: “Edfú”
  • Catalan: “Idfu”
  • Catalan: “Idfú”
  • Cebuano: “Idfū”
  • Chinese: “伊德富”
  • Chinese: “埃德富”
  • Croatian: “Edfu”
  • Czech: “Edfu”
  • Dutch: “Edfoe”
  • Dutch: “Edfu”
  • Dutch: “Idfoe”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “إدفو”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “ادفو”
  • Esperanto: “Edfu”
  • Finnish: “Edfu”
  • Finnish: “Idfu”
  • French: “Edfou”
  • French: “Idfu”
  • Galician: “Edfu”
  • German: “Apollinopolis Magna”
  • German: “Apollonospolis”
  • German: “Edfu”
  • German: “Idfu”
  • Greek: “Εντφού”
  • Hebrew: “אדפו”
  • Hungarian: “Edfu”
  • Indonesian: “Edfu”
  • Irish: “Idfu”
  • Italian: “Apollinopolis Magna”
  • Italian: “Behdet”
  • Italian: “Behedet”
  • Italian: “Djebat”
  • Italian: “Edfu”
  • Italian: “Idfu”
  • Japanese: “エドフ”
  • Kazakh: “Édfw”
  • Kazakh: “Эдфу қаласы”
  • Kazakh: “Эдфу”
  • Kazakh: “ەدفۋ”
  • Korean: “에드푸”
  • Latin: “Apollinopolis Magna”
  • Latin: “Apollonopolis Magna”
  • Lithuanian: “Apolinopolis”
  • Lithuanian: “Behdet”
  • Lithuanian: “Džeba”
  • Lithuanian: “Edfu”
  • Lithuanian: “Idfu”
  • Luxembourgish: “Edfu”
  • Malagasy: “Idfū”
  • Malay: “Edfu”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Idfu”
  • Norwegian: “Idfu”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Edfó”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Edfu”
  • Persian: “ادفو”
  • Polish: “Apollonopolis Magna”
  • Polish: “Behdet”
  • Polish: “Behedet”
  • Polish: “Edfu”
  • Polish: “Idfu”
  • Portuguese: “Behdet”
  • Portuguese: “Behedet”
  • Portuguese: “Edfu”
  • Portuguese: “Tell Edfu”
  • Russian: “Аджба”
  • Russian: “Аполлинополь Великий”
  • Russian: “Атбо”
  • Russian: “Бехдет”
  • Russian: “Идфу”
  • Russian: “Эдфу”
  • Scots: “Edfu”
  • Serbian: “Едфу”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Edfu”
  • Slovak: “Edfu”
  • Slovenian: “Edfu”
  • South Azerbaijani: “ادفو”
  • Spanish: “Apolinopolis Magna”
  • Spanish: “Apolinópolis Magna”
  • Spanish: “Apolinopolis”
  • Spanish: “Apolinópolis”
  • Spanish: “Behdet”
  • Spanish: “Edfu”
  • Spanish: “Edfú”
  • Swahili: “Behdet”
  • Swahili: “Edfu”
  • Swahili: “Idfu”
  • Swahili: “Idfū”
  • Swedish: “Edfo”
  • Swedish: “Edfu”
  • Swedish: “Idfu”
  • Swedish: “Idfū”
  • Tajik: “Идфу”
  • Turkish: “Edfu”
  • Ukrainian: “Аполлінополь Великий”
  • Ukrainian: “Едфу”
  • Urdu: “ادفو”
  • Venetian: “Edfu”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Edfu”
  • Zulu: “Edfu”

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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 Wikipedia page “Edfu”. Photo: MatthiasKabel, CC BY-SA 3.0.