Fayum
Faiyum is a city in Middle Egypt. Located 100 kilometres southwest of Cairo, in the Faiyum Oasis, it is the capital of the modern Faiyum Governorate. It is one of Egypt's oldest cities due to its strategic location.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: City with 306,000 residents
- Description: city in Egypt
- Also known as: “Al Fayyum”, “al-Faiyūm”, “Arsinoë”, “Crocodilopolis”, “el-Faiyum”, “el-Fayoum”, “Faiyum”, “Faiyūm”, “Fajjum”, “Fajum”, “Fayoom”, “Fayoum”, “Fayyoum”, “Fayyum”, “Krokodilopolis”, “Krokodiloupolis”, “Madīnat al-Faiyūm”, “Madinat al-Fayyum”, “Madīnet el Faiyūm”, “Médinat el-Fayoum”, “Medinat Fayum”, “Medinet-el-Fayoum”, and “Shedit”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Al-Fayoum Stadium.
Al-Fayoum Stadium
Stadium
The Al-Fayoum Stadium was a multi-purpose stadium located in Fayoum, Egypt. It was used mostly for football and serves as the home stadium of Misr El Makasa. The stadium had a capacity of 20,000 people. This stadium is permanently closed.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Abgig.
Fayum
- Categories: big city and locality
- Location: Faiyum Governorate, Lower Egypt, Egypt, North Africa, Africa
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
29.3074° or 29° 18′ 27″ northLongitude
30.84° or 30° 50′ 24″ eastPopulation
306,000Elevation
29 metres (95 feet)United Nations Location Code
EG IYMOpen location code
7GXG8R4Q+XXOpenStreetMap ID
node 768555545OpenStreetMap feature
place=city
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Ancient Greek to Zulu—“Fayum” goes by many names.
- Ancient Greek (to 1453): “Κροκοδειλόπολις”
- Ancient Greek (to 1453): “Κροκοδείλων Πόλις”
- Arabic: “الفيوم”
- Arabic: “كيمان فارس”
- Arabic: “محافظة الفيوم”
- Arabic: “مدينة الفيوم”
- Armenian: “Էլ Ֆայում”
- Armenian: “Ֆայյում”
- Armenian: “Ֆայում”
- Asturian: “Faiyum”
- Azerbaijani: “Əl-Fəyyum”
- Basque: “Faiyum”
- Belarusian: “Фаюм”
- Belarusian: “Эль-Фаюм”
- Bengali: “ফাইইয়োম”
- Bengali: “ফাইয়ুম”
- Bhojpuri: “फय्यूम”
- Bulgarian: “Фаюм”
- Catalan: “Arsinoe”
- Catalan: “Cocodrilòpolis”
- Catalan: “Crocodilòpolis”
- Catalan: “El Faium”
- Catalan: “Faium”
- Catalan: “Fayium”
- Catalan: “Krokodilopolis”
- Catalan: “Madinat al-Fayyum”
- Catalan: “Shedet”
- Cebuano: “Al Fayyūm”
- Chinese: “法尤姆”
- Croatian: “Al Faiyum”
- Croatian: “Al Fayyum”
- Czech: “Fajjúm”
- Czech: “Fajúm”
- Danish: “Al Fayyum”
- Danish: “Fayyum”
- Dutch: “El Faiyum”
- Dutch: “El Faiyûm”
- Dutch: “El-Fajoem”
- Dutch: “Medinet-el-Fajoem”
- Egyptian Arabic: “الفيوم”
- Esperanto: “Faijumo”
- Esperanto: “Faiyum”
- Esperanto: “Fajumo”
- Esperanto: “Madinat al-Fajum”
- Estonian: “Al-Fayyum”
- Estonian: “Al-Fayyūm”
- Estonian: “Faijum”
- Finnish: “Al Fayum”
- Finnish: “Al Fayyum”
- Finnish: “Al-Fayyum”
- Finnish: “El Fayum”
- Finnish: “Faijum”
- French: “Fayoum”
- French: “Médinet el-Fayoum”
- French: “Medinet-el-Fayoum”
- French: “Médinet-el-Fayoum”
- Georgian: “ელ-ფაიუმი”
- Georgian: “ფაიუმი”
- German: “Al-Fayyum”
- German: “al-Fayyūm”
- German: “Al-Fayyūm”
- German: “Faiyūm”
- German: “Fajjum”
- German: “Fajum”
- German: “Fayyum”
- German: “Krokodilopolis”
- German: “Madīnat al-Faiyūm”
- German: “Madinat al-Fayyum”
- Greek: “Φαγιούμ”
- Gujarati: “ફેઇયમ”
- Hausa: “Faiyum”
- Hebrew: “פאיום”
- Hebrew: “פיום”
- Hindi: “फयूम”
- Hindi: “फेयुम”
- Hindi: “फैयूम”
- Hungarian: “Fajjúm”
- Indonesian: “Al Fayyum”
- Indonesian: “Faiyum”
- Irish: “Fayyum”
- Italian: “Al-Fayyum”
- Italian: “El Fayum”
- Italian: “Faiyum”
- Italian: “Fayoum”
- Italian: “Fayum”
- Italian: “Fayyum”
- Japanese: “ファイユーム”
- Kabyle: “Fayyum”
- Kannada: “ಫಯ್ಯಮ್”
- Korean: “파이윰”
- Latin: “Crocodilopolis”
- Latvian: “Fajuma”
- Lithuanian: “Fajumas”
- Lithuanian: “Krokodilopolis”
- Lithuanian: “Šedet”
- Malay: “Faiyum”
- Marathi: “फेय्यूम”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Faiyum”
- Norwegian: “Faiyum”
- Persian: “استان فیوم”
- Persian: “فیوم”
- Polish: “Fajum”
- Polish: “Madinat al-Fajum”
- Polish: “Medinet el-Fajum”
- Portuguese: “El Faiyûm”
- Portuguese: “Faium”
- Portuguese: “Faiyum”
- Portuguese: “Fayum”
- Portuguese: “Fayyum”
- Portuguese: “Retrato de Fayum”
- Romanian: “Al Fayyum”
- Russian: “Аль-Фаюм”
- Russian: “Файюм”
- Russian: “Фаюм”
- Russian: “Эль-Файюм”
- Scots: “Al Fayyum”
- Scots: “Faiyum”
- Serbian: “Fajum”
- Serbian: “Фајум”
- Serbian: “الفيوم”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Al Fayyum”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Faiyum”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Fajum”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Fayum”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Fayyum”
- Sinhala: “ෆයිඋම්”
- Sinhala: “ෆායිඋම්”
- Slovak: “Fajjúm”
- Slovenian: “Fajum”
- South Azerbaijani: “فیوم”
- Spanish: “El-Fayum”
- Spanish: “Fayun”
- Spanish: “Fayún”
- Spanish: “Medinet el-Fayum”
- Swahili: “Faiyum”
- Swedish: “Faijum”
- Swedish: “Fayoum”
- Tajik: “Ал-Файюм”
- Tamil: “எதையும்”
- Tamil: “பாயும்”
- Tamil: “பையூம்”
- Telugu: “ఫాయుమ్”
- Thai: “ฟัยยูม”
- Thai: “อัลฟัยยูม”
- Turkish: “Fayyum”
- Turkish: “Feyyum”
- Ukrainian: “Ель-Файюм”
- Ukrainian: “Фаюм”
- Urdu: “فیوم”
- Uzbek: “Fayyum”
- Venetian: “Fayyum”
- Vietnamese: “Faiyum”
- Waray (Philippines): “Al Fayyum”
- Waray (Philippines): “Faiyum”
- Welsh: “Faiyum”
- Wu Chinese: “法尤姆”
- Zulu: “Faiyum”
- “फय्यूम”
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