Fayum

Faiyum is a city geographically in Lower Egypt but culturally and politically in Upper Egypt, 100 kilometres southwest of . In the , it is the capital of the modern .
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  • City with about 519,000 residents
  • …lies at an elevation of around 30 metres (100 feet)
  • Description: city in Egypt
  • Also known as
    “Al Fayyum”
    “al-Faiyūm”
    “Arsinoë”
    “Crocodilopolis”
    “el-Faiyum”
    “el-Fayoum”
    “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”
    “Shedit”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Al-Fayoum Stadium.
The was a multi-purpose stadium located in Fayoum, Egypt.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Abgig.
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is a village.

Fayum

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Latitude
29.3074° or 29° 18′ 27″ north
Longitude
30.84° or 30° 50′ 24″ east
UN/LOCODE
EG IYM
Open location code
7GXG8R4Q+XX
Open­Street­Map ID
node 768555545
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
361320
Wiki­data ID
Q203299

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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 Faiyûm”
  • Dutch: “El-Fajoem”
  • Dutch: “Medinet-el-Fajoem”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “الفيوم”
  • Esperanto: “Faijumo”
  • Esperanto: “Faiyum”
  • Esperanto: “Fajumo”
  • Esperanto: “Madinat al-Fajum”
  • Estonian: “Al-Fayyūm”
  • Estonian: “Faijum”
  • Finnish: “Al Fayum”
  • Finnish: “Al Fayyum”
  • Finnish: “El Fayum”
  • Finnish: “Faijum”
  • French: “Fayoum”
  • French: “Médinet el-Fayoum”
  • Georgian: “ელ-ფაიუმი”
  • Georgian: “ფაიუმი”
  • 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: “फ़ैयूम”
  • 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: “ෆායිඋම්”
  • Slovak: “Fajjúm”
  • Slovenian: “Fajum”
  • South Azerbaijani: “فیوم”
  • Spanish: “El-Fayum”
  • Spanish: “Fayún”
  • Spanish: “Medinet el-Fayum”
  • Swahili: “Faiyum”
  • Swedish: “Al-Fayyum”
  • Swedish: “Faijum”
  • Tajik: “Ал-Файюм”
  • Tamil: “எதையும்”
  • Tamil: “பாயும்”
  • Telugu: “ఫాయుమ్”
  • Thai: “ฟัยยูม”
  • Thai: “อัลฟัยยูม”
  • Turkish: “Fayyum”
  • Turkish: “Feyyum”
  • 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”

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