Egypt
Lower Egypt
Giza Governorate

Memphis

Memphis is the English name for the present-day site of one of the great ancient capital cities of . Although very little remains to be seen on the surface, Memphis features a great sculpture museum, in the Mit Rahina village some 24 km south of the modern Egyptian capital of .
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  • Type: Protected area
  • Description: ancient capital of Inebu-hedj, Egypt
  • Also known as: “Hekaptah”, “Hut-ka-Ptah”, “Man”, “Memphis, Egypt”, “Mit Rahina”, and “Mit-Rahineh”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Statue of Rameses II.

Work of art
Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY 3.0.
is a work of art.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Saqqara and Badrashin.

Photo: Oltau, CC BY 3.0.
is the name given both to a village 32 km to the south of the capital of and to the extensive ancient necropolis on the plateau above the Nile Valley, the location of tombs and pyramids dating to the Predynastic, Old Kingdom, New Kingdom and Late Periods of ancient Egyptian history.

Village
is a city, and capital of the eponymous markaz, in , . County is the site of Ancient Egypt's royal capital, Men-nefer.

Town
El Hawamdeya is a city in the Giza Governorate of Egypt. Successive census results indicate a considerable steady rise in its population: 73,298 in 1986, 91,770 in 1996, 109,314 in 2006, 149,567 in 2018 and 158,278 in 2023. is situated 4½ km north of Memphis.

Memphis

Latitude
29.8545° or 29° 51′ 16″ north
Longitude
31.2574° or 31° 15′ 27″ east
Elevation
20 metres (66 feet)
Open location code
7GXHV734+QW
Open­Street­Map ID
way 653703867
Open­Street­Map feature
historic=­archaeological_site
Geo­Names ID
352547
Wiki­data ID
Q5715
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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Zulu—“Memphis” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “Memphis”
  • Ancient Greek (to 1453): “Μέμφις”
  • Arabic: “ممفس”
  • Arabic: “ممفيس المصرية”
  • Arabic: “منف”
  • Armenian: “Մեմփիս”
  • Asturian: “Memphis”
  • Asturian: “Menfis”
  • Azerbaijani: “Memfis”
  • Basque: “Menfis”
  • Belarusian: “Горад Мемфіс”
  • Belarusian: “Мемфіс”
  • Belarusian: “Мэмфіс (Эгіпет)”
  • Belarusian: “Мэмфіс”
  • Bengali: “মেমফিস, মিশর”
  • Bengali: “মেমফিস”
  • Breton: “Menfis”
  • Bulgarian: “Мемфис”
  • Catalan: “Memfis”
  • Catalan: “Memfîs”
  • Cebuano: “Memphis”
  • Chinese: “卜塔灵魂的所在”
  • Chinese: “孟斐斯”
  • Chinese: “孟菲斯”
  • Chinese: “孟非斯”
  • Chinese: “普塔神灵之家”
  • Church Slavic: “Мємфь”
  • Croatian: “Memfis”
  • Czech: “Memfis”
  • Czech: “Mennofer”
  • Danish: “Memphis”
  • Dutch: “Memphis”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “ممفيس”
  • Esperanto: “Memfiso”
  • Finnish: “Memfis”
  • French: “Memphis”
  • Galician: “Menfis”
  • Georgian: “მემფისი”
  • German: “Manf”
  • German: “Memphis”
  • German: “Moph”
  • Greek: “Ανκ Ταουΐ”
  • Greek: “Μέμφις”
  • Hausa: “Memphis, Egypt”
  • Hebrew: “ממפיס”
  • Hindi: “मेम्फ़ीस”
  • Hungarian: “Memphisz”
  • Icelandic: “Memfis”
  • Igbo: “Memphis”
  • Indonesian: “Memfis”
  • Irish: “Meimfís”
  • Italian: “Menfi”
  • Japanese: “メンフィス”
  • Javanese: “Memphis, Mesir”
  • Kannada: “ಮೆಂಫಿಸ್”
  • Korean: “멤피스”
  • Kurdish: “Memfîs”
  • Latin: “Memphis”
  • Latvian: “Memfisa”
  • Lithuanian: “Memfis”
  • Macedonian: “Мемфис (Египет)”
  • Macedonian: “Мемфис”
  • Malagasy: “Memfisy”
  • Malay: “Memphis, Mesir”
  • Malay: “Memphis”
  • Malayalam: “മെംഫിസ്”
  • Maltese: “Memphis”
  • Marathi: “मेंफिस, इजिप्त”
  • Marathi: “मेंफिस”
  • Marathi: “मेम्फिस”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Memfis”
  • Norwegian: “Memfis”
  • Obolo: “Memfis”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Menfis”
  • Panjabi: “ਮਨਫ਼”
  • Persian: “ممفیس”
  • Persian: “منف”
  • Polish: “Ineb-hedż”
  • Polish: “Memfis”
  • Portuguese: “Mênfis”
  • Romanian: “Memfis”
  • Romanian: “Memphis, Egipt”
  • Romanian: “Memphis”
  • Russian: “Мемфис”
  • Scots: “Memphis, Egyp”
  • Scots: “Memphis”
  • Serbian: “Инеб Хеџ”
  • Serbian: “Мемфис (Египат)”
  • Serbian: “Мемфис”
  • Serbian: “Менефер”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Memfis”
  • Slovak: “Memfis”
  • Slovak: “Mennofer”
  • Slovenian: “Memfis, Egipt”
  • Slovenian: “Memfis”
  • Spanish: “Menfis”
  • Swahili: “Memphis, Misri”
  • Swedish: “Memfis”
  • Tagalog: “Memphis, Ehipto”
  • Tamil: “மெம்பிசு, எகிப்து”
  • Tamil: “மெம்பிசு”
  • Tatar: “Борынгы Мемфис каласы”
  • Thai: “เมมฟิส”
  • Turkish: “Memfis”
  • Turkish: “Memphis, Mısır”
  • Uighur: “مېمفىس”
  • Ukrainian: “Мемфіс”
  • Urdu: “ممفس، مصر”
  • Urdu: “منف”
  • Uzbek: “Memfis”
  • Vietnamese: “Mạnh Phỉ Ti”
  • Vietnamese: “Mạnh Phỉ Tư”
  • Vietnamese: “Memphis”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Memphis, Ehipto”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Memphis”
  • Welsh: “Memphis”
  • Western Armenian: “Մեմփիս”
  • Wu Chinese: “孟菲斯 (埃及)”
  • Wu Chinese: “孟菲斯（埃及）”
  • Yue Chinese: “孟非斯 (埃及)”
  • Zulu: “Memphis, Gibhithe”

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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 Wikivoyage page “Memphis”. Photo: Wikimedia, CC0.