Nekhen

Nekhen, also known as Hierakonpolis was the religious and political capital of at the end of prehistoric Egypt and probably also during the Early Dynastic Period.
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  • Type: Locality
  • Description: religious and political capital of Upper Egypt in Ancient Egypt
  • Also known as: “Hieraconpolis”, “Hierakonpolis”, and “Nekhen, Nekhen”

Nekhen

Latitude
25.11667° or 25° 7′ north
Longitude
32.7° or 32° 42′ east
Open location code
7GQJ4M8X+MX
Open­Street­Map ID
node 768081377
Open­Street­Map feature
historic=­ruins
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­locality
Wiki­data ID
Q278988
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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Vietnamese—“Nekhen” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “Hierakonpolis”
  • Afrikaans: “Nechen”
  • Amharic: “ነቀን”
  • Arabic: “الكوم الأحمر”
  • Arabic: “نخن”
  • Arabic: “هيراكونوبليس”
  • Basque: “Hierakonpolis”
  • Bulgarian: “Нехен”
  • Catalan: “Nekhen”
  • Chinese: “希拉孔波利斯”
  • Czech: “Nechen”
  • Dutch: “Hierakonpolis”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “نخن”
  • Finnish: “Hierakonpolis”
  • Finnish: “Nekhen”
  • French: “Nekhen”
  • Galician: “Hieracómpolis”
  • German: “Hierakonpolis”
  • German: “Nekhen”
  • Greek: “Ιεράκων πόλις”
  • Greek: “Ἱεράκων πόλις”
  • Hebrew: “היירקונפוליס”
  • Hebrew: “נח’ן”
  • Hungarian: “Nehen”
  • Indonesian: “Nekhen”
  • Italian: “Ieracompoli”
  • Japanese: “ネクヘン”
  • Japanese: “ネケン”
  • Japanese: “ヒエラコンポリス（ネケヘン）”
  • Korean: “히에라콘폴리스”
  • Lithuanian: “Hierakonpolis”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Nekhen”
  • Norwegian: “Nekhen”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Nekhen”
  • Persian: “نخن”
  • Polish: “Nechen”
  • Portuguese: “Hieracômpolis”
  • Portuguese: “Nekhen”
  • Russian: “Нехен”
  • Serbian: “Хијераконполис”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Hierakonpolis”
  • Slovak: “Nechen”
  • Slovenian: “Nehen”
  • Spanish: “Hieracompolis”
  • Spanish: “Hieracómpolis”
  • Spanish: “Nején”
  • Swahili: “Nekhen”
  • Swedish: “Nekhen”
  • Tajik: “Нехен”
  • Tamil: “நெக்கென்”
  • Turkish: “Nekhen”
  • Ukrainian: “Нехен”
  • Urdu: “نخن”
  • Vietnamese: “Nekhen”

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