Minya
Minya is a city in Middle Egypt. Usually overlooked by tourists, this city has a long history and some interesting heritage to explore. It is home to over 250,000 people and lies about 245 km south of Cairo.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: City with 247,000 residents
- Description: city in Middle Egypt
- Also known as: “Al Minya”, “El-Minya”, “Menat Khufu”, and “Minya, Egypt”
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Sawada.
Sawada
Village
Photo: RolandUnger, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Sawada is a village in the Minya Governorate, Egypt, on the eastern side of the Nile. It borders the city New Minya. The village had a population of 10,571 in 2006.
Minya
- Categories: big city and locality
- Location: Minya Governorate, Middle Egypt, Egypt, North Africa, Africa
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
28.0893° or 28° 5′ 22″ northLongitude
30.7571° or 30° 45′ 25″ eastPopulation
247,000Elevation
52 metres (171 feet)IATA airport code
EMYOpen location code
7GWG3QQ4+PROpenStreetMap ID
node 768032316OpenStreetMap feature
place=city
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Zulu—“Minya” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “إلمنيا”
- Arabic: “المنيا”
- Arabic: “مدينة المنيا”
- Arabic: “منيا”
- Armenian: “Էլ Մինիա”
- Asturian: “Minya”
- Azerbaijani: “Əl-Minya”
- Belarusian: “Мінья”
- Belarusian: “Эль-Мінья”
- Bengali: “মিনইয়া”
- Bulgarian: “Миня”
- Catalan: “Al-Minya”
- Catalan: “Al-Minyā”
- Catalan: “Menat-Kufu”
- Catalan: “Nueirat”
- Cebuano: “Al Minyā (kapital sa lalawigan sa Ehipto)”
- Cebuano: “Al Minyā”
- Chinese: “敏亞”
- Chinese: “明亚”
- Chinese: “明亞”
- Chinese: “米尼亚”
- Czech: “Minjá”
- Danish: “Al Minya”
- Danish: “Minya”
- Dutch: “Minya”
- Egyptian Arabic: “المنيا”
- Esperanto: “Minja”
- Esperanto: “Minjo”
- Finnish: “Al-Minya”
- Finnish: “Minya”
- French: “Al Minya”
- French: “Al-Minya”
- Galician: “Minya”
- Georgian: “ელ-მინია”
- German: “Al Minya”
- German: “Al-Minya”
- German: “Minia”
- German: “Minieh”
- German: “Minyā”
- Greek: “Μίνια”
- Gujarati: “મીના”
- Hebrew: “אל-מניא”
- Hebrew: “מיניה”
- Hindi: “मिनिया”
- Hindi: “मीन्या”
- Hungarian: “Minja”
- Indonesian: “Minya”
- Irish: “Al-Minya”
- Italian: “Al-Minya”
- Italian: “El Minia”
- Italian: “El Minya”
- Italian: “Minya”
- Italian: “Minyā”
- Japanese: “ミニヤー”
- Kabyle: “Minya”
- Kannada: “ಮಿನಿಯಾ”
- Korean: “미니아”
- Latvian: “Minja”
- Lithuanian: “El-Minia”
- Lithuanian: “Minja”
- Malay: “Minya”
- Marathi: “मिनिया”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Minya”
- Norwegian: “Al-Minya”
- Persian: “منیا”
- Polish: “Al-Minja”
- Polish: “Minja”
- Portuguese: “Menia”
- Portuguese: “Minia”
- Portuguese: “Minya”
- Russian: “Эль Минья”
- Russian: “Эль-Минья”
- Scots: “Minya, Egyp”
- Scots: “Minya”
- Serbian: “Минја”
- Serbian: “Миња”
- Sinhala: “මින්යා”
- Slovenian: “Minya”
- South Azerbaijani: “منیا”
- Spanish: “Al Minya”
- Spanish: “Al Minyā”
- Spanish: “Al-Minya”
- Spanish: “Al-Minyā”
- Spanish: “El Minya”
- Spanish: “Menia”
- Spanish: “Menya”
- Spanish: “Minya”
- Swedish: “Al-Minya”
- Swedish: “Al-Minyā”
- Swedish: “El Minya”
- Swedish: “Menia”
- Swedish: “Minya”
- Tajik: “Ал-Минё”
- Tamil: “மியா”
- Telugu: “మిన్య”
- Thai: “อัลมินยา”
- Turkish: “El Minye”
- Turkish: “El-Minye”
- Turkish: “Minye”
- Ukrainian: “Ель-Мінья”
- Urdu: “منیا، مصر”
- Uzbek: “Minyo”
- Venetian: “Minya”
- Vietnamese: “Minya, Ai Cập”
- Waray (Philippines): “Al Minya”
- Waray (Philippines): “Minya, Egypt”
- Waray (Philippines): “Minya”
- Western Panjabi: “منیا”
- Zulu: “Minya, Gibhithe”
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