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Rosetta

Rosetta or Rashid is a port city of the , 65 km east of , in 's . The was discovered in nearby Fort Julien in 1799.
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  • Type: City with 68,900 residents
  • Description: city in Egypt
  • Also known as: “Bolbitine”, “Bolbythia”, “Er-Rashid”, “Rashid”, “Rashîd”, “Rosetta, Egypt”, and “Rosetta, Rosetta, Al Rashid, Rashid”

Rosetta

Latitude
31.4014° or 31° 24′ 5″ north
Longitude
30.4184° or 30° 25′ 6″ east
Population
68,900
Elevation
15 metres (49 feet)
United Nations Location Code
EG PRA
Open location code
8G3GCC29+H9
Open­Street­Map ID
node 768815269
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
350203
Wiki­data ID
Q243699
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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Zulu—“Rosetta” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “Rosetta, Egipte”
  • Afrikaans: “Rosetta”
  • Arabic: “تصنيف:رشيد”
  • Arabic: “رشيد”
  • Arabic: “مدينة رشيد”
  • Asturian: “Rosetta”
  • Basque: “Rasid”
  • Basque: “Raxid”
  • Basque: “Rosetta”
  • Bulgarian: “Розета”
  • Bulgarian: “Росета”
  • Catalan: “Rashid”
  • Catalan: “Rosetta”
  • Catalan: “Rossetta”
  • Cebuano: “Rosetta”
  • Chinese: “拉希德”
  • Chinese: “罗塞塔”
  • Chinese: “羅塞塔”
  • Croatian: “Rozeta”
  • Czech: “Ar-Rašíd”
  • Dutch: “Rosetta (Egypte)”
  • Dutch: “Rosetta”
  • Dutch: “Rosette”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “رشيد”
  • Esperanto: “Rachid”
  • Esperanto: “Raŝido”
  • Estonian: “Rashid”
  • Estonian: “Rashīd”
  • Estonian: “Rosetta”
  • Finnish: “Rosetta”
  • French: “Rachid”
  • French: “Rachïd”
  • French: “Rosetta”
  • French: “Rosette”
  • Galician: “Rosetta”
  • Georgian: “რაშიდი”
  • German: “Raschîd”
  • German: “Raschīd”
  • German: “Rosetta”
  • German: “Rosette”
  • Greek: “Ροζέτα”
  • Hausa: “Rosetta”
  • Hebrew: “קטגוריה:רשיד”
  • Hebrew: “רשיד”
  • Hungarian: “Rosetta”
  • Icelandic: “Rosetta”
  • Indonesian: “Rachid”
  • Indonesian: “Rashid”
  • Indonesian: “Rasyid, Mesir”
  • Indonesian: “Rasyid”
  • Indonesian: “Rosetta”
  • Irish: “Rosetta”
  • Italian: “Rosetta”
  • Japanese: “ロゼッタ”
  • Javanese: “Rosetta”
  • Korean: “로제타”
  • Latin: “Rosetta”
  • Malagasy: “Rosetta”
  • Malay: “Rasyid”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Rosetta”
  • Norwegian: “Rosetta”
  • Persian: “رشید”
  • Polish: “Rosetta”
  • Portuguese: “Roseta”
  • Russian: “Рашид”
  • Russian: “Розетта”
  • Serbian: “Rozeta”
  • Serbian: “Розета”
  • Serbian: “رشيد”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Rašid”
  • Slovak: “Ar-Rašíd”
  • Slovenian: “Rosetta”
  • Spanish: “Rashid”
  • Spanish: “Rosetta”
  • Swedish: “Rosetta, Egypten”
  • Swedish: “Rosetta”
  • Turkish: “Reşid”
  • Turkish: “Reşit”
  • Turkish: “Rosetta”
  • Ukrainian: “Рашид”
  • Urdu: “رشيد”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Rosetta”
  • Wu Chinese: “罗塞塔”
  • Yue Chinese: “羅塞塔”
  • Zulu: “Rosetta”

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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 Wikipedia page “Rosetta”. Photo: RolandUnger, CC BY-SA 3.0.