Middle Egypt
Middle Egypt is an extensive region of Egypt, extending through the Nile River valley, roughly between the cities of Beni Suef and Qus.
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Middle Egypt
- Type: region
- Description: section of land between Lower Egypt and Upper Egypt
- Also known as: “Moyenne-Egypte” and “中部エジプト”
- Location: Egypt, North Africa, Africa
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Latitude of center
28.07° or 28° 4′ 12″ north
Longitude of center
31.05° or 31° 3′ east
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Vietnamese—“Middle Egypt” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “مصر الوسطى”
- Bosnian: “Srednji Egipat”
- Breton: “Kreiz Egipt”
- Chinese: “中埃及”
- Dutch: “Midden-Egypte”
- Egyptian Arabic: “مصر الوسطى”
- Esperanto: “Meza Egiptio”
- Finnish: “Keski-Egypti”
- French: “Moyenne-Égypte”
- German: “Mittelägypten”
- Hebrew: “מצרים התיכונה”
- Indonesian: “Mesir Tengah”
- Italian: “Medio Egitto”
- Japanese: “エジプト中部”
- Japanese: “中エジプト”
- Malagasy: “Ejipta Antenatenany”
- Malay: “Mesir Tengah”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Midtre Egypt”
- Norwegian: “Midtre Egypt”
- Persian: “مصر میانی”
- Portuguese: “Médio Egito”
- Russian: “Средний Египет”
- Slovenian: “Srednji Egipt”
- Spanish: “Egipto Medio”
- Swedish: “Mellersta Egypten”
- Tamil: “நடு எகிப்து”
- Urdu: “وسطی مصر”
- Uzbek: “Oʻrta Misr”
- Venetian: “Mèdio Ezito”
- Vietnamese: “Trung Ai Cập”
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