Esna
Esna is an Egyptian town in the region of Upper Egypt. Esna is one of the oldest cities in Egypt. It is really an amazing experience and a fascinating imagination when you walk in the streets of the city nowadays in 2020 and you feel like you're walking through history.
- Type: Town with 463,000 residents
- Description: city in Egypt
- Also known as: “Asnā”, “Esné”, “Esneh”, “Ioenit”, “Isna”, “Ĭsne”, “Iunyt”, “Junet”, “Latonpolis”, “Latónpolis”, “Latopoli”, “Latopolia”, “Latopolis Magna”, “Letopolis”, “Senet”, “Sne”, “Ta-senet”, “Tasenet”, “ესნა”, “לאטופוליס”, “לטופוליס”, and “مركز إسنا”
Places of Interest
Highlights: Temple of Khnum.
Esna
- Categories: city, archaeological site, and locality
- Location: Qena Governorate, Upper Egypt, Egypt, North Africa, Africa
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
25.2937° or 25° 17′ 37″ north
Longitude
32.5532° or 32° 33′ 12″ east
Population
463,000
Elevation
86 metres (282 feet)
Open location code
7GQJ7HV3+F7
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
place=town
GeoNames ID
Wikidata ID
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Zulu—“Esna” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “إسنا”
- Armenian: “Իսնա”
- Asturian: “Esna”
- Azerbaijani: “Esna”
- Azerbaijani: “İsna”
- Basque: “Esna”
- Belarusian: “Існа (Егіпет)”
- Belarusian: “Існа”
- Bulgarian: “Есна”
- Catalan: “Esna”
- Cebuano: “Esna”
- Cebuano: “Isnā”
- Chinese: “伊斯納”
- Chinese: “伊斯纳”
- Czech: “Esna”
- Dutch: “Esna”
- Egyptian Arabic: “إسنا”
- Egyptian Arabic: “اسنا”
- Esperanto: “Esna”
- French: “Esna”
- Georgian: “ისნა”
- German: “Esna”
- Greek: “Έσνα”
- Hebrew: “איסנא”
- Hebrew: “אסנא”
- Hungarian: “Eszna”
- Indonesian: “Esna”
- Italian: “Esna”
- Japanese: “エスナ”
- Kazakh: “Ésna qalası”
- Kazakh: “Эсна қаласы”
- Kazakh: “ەسنا قالاسى”
- Korean: “에스나”
- Latin: “Latopolis”
- Lithuanian: “Esna”
- Macedonian: “Есна”
- Malagasy: “Isnā”
- Persian: “اسنا”
- Polish: “Esna”
- Portuguese: “Esna”
- Portuguese: “Latópolis”
- Russian: “Исна”
- Russian: “Эсна”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Esna”
- Slovak: “Esna”
- Slovenian: “Esna”
- South Azerbaijani: “اسنا”
- Spanish: “Esna”
- Swahili: “Esna”
- Swedish: “Esna”
- Tajik: “Исно”
- Turkish: “Esna”
- Ukrainian: “Есна”
- Urdu: “اسنا”
- Zulu: “Esna, Gibhithe”
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Localities in the Area
Places to explore: Naj Buwayl and Al Hosha al Gedida.
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Worth a closer look: Luxor and Aswan.
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