Sohag
Sohag, also spelled as Suhag or Suhaj, is a city on the west bank of the Nile in Egypt. It has been the capital of Sohag Governorate since 1960, before which the capital was Girga and the name of the governorate was Girga Governorate.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: City with 190,000 residents
- Description: city in Egypt
- Also known as: “Sawhaj”, “Suhag”, “Suhaj”, and “Suwhaj”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Sohag Stadium.
Sohag Stadium
Stadium
Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Sohag Stadium is located in the city centre of Sohag, its capacity is 20,000.
Sohag
- Categories: big city and locality
- Location: Sohag Governorate, Middle Egypt, Egypt, North Africa, Africa
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Latitude
26.5477° or 26° 32′ 52″ northLongitude
31.6993° or 31° 41′ 57″ eastPopulation
190,000Elevation
67 metres (220 feet)IATA airport code
HMBOpen location code
7GRHGMXX+3POpenStreetMap ID
node 1636218447OpenStreetMap feature
place=city
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Zulu—“Sohag” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “سوهاج”
- Arabic: “مركز سوهاج”
- Asturian: “Sohag”
- Azerbaijani: “Sövhac”
- Basque: “Sohag”
- Belarusian: “Сагаг”
- Bengali: “সোহাগ”
- Catalan: “Sohag”
- Cebuano: “Sohag”
- Chinese: “索哈傑”
- Chinese: “索哈杰”
- Czech: “Súhág”
- Danish: “Sohag”
- Dutch: “Suhaj”
- Egyptian Arabic: “سوهاج”
- Esperanto: “Saŭhaĝo”
- Finnish: “Sohag”
- French: “Sohag”
- Galician: “Sohag”
- Georgian: “სუჰაგი”
- German: “Sauhadsch”
- German: “Sawhaj”
- German: “Sohag”
- German: “Sōhāg”
- German: “Suhag”
- Greek: “Σοχάγκ”
- Gujarati: “સોહાગ”
- Hebrew: “סוהאג”
- Hindi: “सोहाग”
- Hungarian: “Szohág”
- Indonesian: “Suhaj”
- Irish: “Sohag”
- Italian: “Sohag”
- Japanese: “ソハーグ”
- Kabyle: “Suhaǧ”
- Kannada: “ಸೊಹಾಗ್”
- Korean: “소하그”
- Latvian: “Sohaga”
- Lithuanian: “Sohagas”
- Lithuanian: “Suhagas”
- Malagasy: “Sohag”
- Malay: “Suhaj”
- Marathi: “सोहाग”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Sohag”
- Norwegian: “Sohag”
- Persian: “سوهاج”
- Polish: “Sauhadż”
- Polish: “Sohag”
- Polish: “Suhadż”
- Portuguese: “Soague”
- Portuguese: “Sohag”
- Romanian: “Suhaj”
- Russian: “Сохаг”
- Scots: “Sohag”
- Serbian: “Sohag”
- Serbian: “Сохаг”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Sohag”
- Sinhala: “සොහාග්”
- South Azerbaijani: “سوهاج”
- Spanish: “Suhag”
- Swahili: “Sohag”
- Swedish: “Sawhāj”
- Swedish: “Sohag”
- Swedish: “Souhag”
- Swedish: “Suhaj”
- Swedish: “سوهاج”
- Tajik: “Савҳоҷ”
- Tamil: “சோகக்”
- Telugu: “సోహాగ్”
- Thai: “ซูฮาจญ์”
- Turkish: “Sevhac”
- Ukrainian: “Согаг”
- Ukrainian: “Согаґ”
- Ukrainian: “Сохаг”
- Urdu: “سوہاج”
- Uzbek: “Savhoj”
- Venetian: “Sohag”
- Vietnamese: “Sohag”
- Waray (Philippines): “Sohag”
- Waray (Philippines): “Suhaj”
- Zulu: “Sohag, Gibhithe”
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