Luxor

Luxor is a city in . Luxor had a population of 284,952 in 2023, with an area of 43.0 km2 and is the capital of the . Nicknamed the City of a Hundred Gates or the City of the Sun, formerly known as .
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Essential Destinations

Top destinations include Valley of the Kings and West Bank.

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The is an archaeological locality in the hills immediately behind the of Luxor. As such, it is one of the most remarkable archaeological destinations in the world - the burial place of most of the pharaohs of Egypt of the New Kingdom.

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The of Luxor in is also the gateway to the amazing , and a string of pharaonic mortuary temples vies with the richly-decorated Tombs of the Nobles and the workmen's village, Deir el-Medineh, for the visitors’ attention.

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The of Luxor is the central part of Luxor township, centred on the twin foci of the Temple of Luxor and the Temple of Karnak.

Places of Interest

Highlights include Luxor Temple and Avenue of Sphinxes.

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The is a large Ancient Egyptian temple complex located on the east bank of the Nile River in the city of Luxor and was constructed around 1400 BC.

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or The King's Festivities Road, also known as Rams Road, is a 2.7 km long avenue which connects Karnak Temple with having been uncovered in the ancient city of Thebes, with sphinxes and ram-headed statues lined up on both flanks.

Mosque
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The Abu Haggag Mosque is a in Luxor, in the of . The mosque contains the tomb of Sheikh Yusuf Abu al-Haggag, after whom the mosque is named.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include El-Assasif and New Al Qarnh City.

Village
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is a necropolis near Luxor on the West Bank at , . It is located in the dry bay that leads up to and south of the necropolis of Dra' Abu el-Naga'.

Village
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is a village.

Luxor

Latitude
25.7021° or 25° 42′ 8″ north
Longitude
32.6472° or 32° 38′ 50″ east
Population
451,000
Elevation
89 metres (292 feet)
IATA airport code
LXR
United Nations Location Code
EG LXR
Open location code
7GQJPJ2W+RV
Open­Street­Map ID
node 1667671370
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
360502
Wiki­data ID
Q130514
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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Zulu—“Luxor” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “Luxor”
  • Arabic: “أقصر”
  • Arabic: “اثار الاقصر”
  • Arabic: “الأقصر”
  • Arabic: “الاقصر”
  • Arabic: “مدينة الأقصر”
  • Armenian: “Լուքսոր”
  • Asturian: “Luxor”
  • Azerbaijani: “əl-Üqsür”
  • Azerbaijani: “Əl-Üqsür”
  • Basque: “Luxor”
  • Belarusian: “Луксор”
  • Belarusian: “Люксор”
  • Belarusian: “Эль-Юксор”
  • Bengali: “লাক্সর”
  • Bengali: “লুক্সোর”
  • Bengali: “লোক্সো”
  • Breton: “Louksor”
  • Bulgarian: “Луксор”
  • Burmese: “လူ့က်ဆော်မြို့”
  • Catalan: “Al-Uksur”
  • Catalan: “Diòspolis Magna”
  • Catalan: “Luxor”
  • Catalan: “Thebai”
  • Cebuano: “Luxor”
  • Central Kurdish: “ئوکسوور”
  • Chinese: “卢克索”
  • Chinese: “樂蜀”
  • Chinese: “盧克索”
  • Chinese: “路克索”
  • Croatian: “Luksor”
  • Croatian: “Luxor”
  • Czech: “Luxor”
  • Danish: “Luxor”
  • Dutch: “Luxor”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “الأقصر”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “الاقصر”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “لؤصر”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “لقصر”
  • Esperanto: “Luksoro”
  • Estonian: “Luxor”
  • Finnish: “Luksor”
  • Finnish: “Luxor”
  • French: “Louksor”
  • French: “Louqsor”
  • French: “Louxor”
  • French: “Luxor”
  • Galician: “Luxor- الأقصر”
  • Galician: “Luxor”
  • Georgian: “ლუქსორი”
  • German: “Luxor”
  • Greek: “Λούξορ”
  • Gujarati: “લક્સર”
  • Hausa: “Luxor”
  • Hebrew: “לוקסור”
  • Hindi: “लक्सर”
  • Hungarian: “Luxor”
  • Icelandic: “Lúxor”
  • Igbo: “Luxor”
  • Indonesian: “Luxor”
  • Irish: “Lucsar”
  • Italian: “Luxor”
  • Japanese: “ルクソール”
  • Japanese: “ルクソル”
  • Javanese: “Luxor”
  • Kabyle: “Luqṣur”
  • Kalaallisut: “Luxor”
  • Kannada: “ಲಕ್ಸಾರ್”
  • Kirghiz: “Луксор шаары”
  • Kirghiz: “Луксор”
  • Korean: “룩소르”
  • Kurdish: “Lûksor”
  • Latvian: “Luksora”
  • Lithuanian: “Luksoras”
  • Macedonian: “Луксор”
  • Malagasy: “Luxor”
  • Malay: “Luxor”
  • Maltese: “Luxor”
  • Marathi: “लुक्सोर”
  • Mingrelian: “ლუქსორი”
  • Nepali: “लुक्सर”
  • Northern Luri: “اقصر”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Luxor”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Luxor”
  • Norwegian: “Luxor”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Loxòr”
  • Ossetian: “Луксор”
  • Panjabi: “ਲਕਸਰ”
  • Persian: “اقصر”
  • Persian: “الاقصر”
  • Polish: “Al-Uksur”
  • Polish: “Luksor”
  • Polish: “Luxor”
  • Portuguese: “Luxor”
  • Portuguese: “Lúxor”
  • Quechua: “Al Uqsur”
  • Quechua: “Luxor”
  • Romanian: “Luxor”
  • Russian: “Луксор”
  • Scots: “Luxor”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “An Ucsur”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “Luxor”
  • Serbian: “Luksor”
  • Serbian: “Луксор”
  • Serbian: “الأقصر”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Luksor”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Luxor”
  • Silesian: “Luksor”
  • Sinhala: “ලක්සර්”
  • Sinhala: “ලක්සොර්”
  • Slovak: “Luxor”
  • Slovenian: “Luksor”
  • South Azerbaijani: “اقصر”
  • Spanish: “Al Uqsur”
  • Spanish: “Luxor”
  • Spanish: “Lúxor”
  • Swahili: “Luxor”
  • Swedish: “Al Uqsur”
  • Swedish: “Luxor”
  • Tagalog: “Al-Uqṣur”
  • Tagalog: “Luxar”
  • Tagalog: “Luxer”
  • Tagalog: “Luxor”
  • Tajik: “ал-Уқсур”
  • Tajik: “Уқсур”
  • Tamil: “அல்-உக்சுர்”
  • Tamil: “லக்சோர்”
  • Tamil: “லுஸோர்”
  • Tatar: “Әлөкъсер”
  • Telugu: “లగ్సర్”
  • Thai: “ลักซอร์”
  • Turkish: “El-Uksur”
  • Turkish: “Luksor”
  • Turkish: “Uksur”
  • Twi: “Luxor”
  • Ukrainian: “Луксор”
  • Urdu: “اقصر”
  • Urdu: “الاقصر”
  • Uzbek: “al-Uqsur”
  • Uzbek: “Al-Uqsur”
  • Venetian: “Luxor”
  • Vietnamese: “Louxor”
  • Vietnamese: “Luxor”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Luxor”
  • Welsh: “Luxor”
  • Western Panjabi: “لکسر”
  • Wu Chinese: “卢克索”
  • Yue Chinese: “樂蜀”
  • Zeeuws: “Luxor”
  • Zulu: “Luxor”
  • “Al-Uqsur”
  • “Q130514”

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