Tanta
Tanta is a city in Egypt. It had a population of 530,000 in 2024, making it the seventh most populous city in Egypt. The city is located between Cairo and Alexandria: 94 km north of Cairo and 130 km southeast of Alexandria.
- Type: City with 430,000 residents
- Description: city in Egypt
- Also known as: “Ptkheka”, “Ta´nta”, “Tanţa”, “Tanţā”, “Tantah”, “طنطا Tanta”, “ตอนตอ”, and “タンター”
Photo: Faris knight, Public domain.Places of Interest
Highlights: Maqam Sidi Ahmed Al-Badawy.
Tanta
- Categories: big city and locality
- Location: Gharbia Governorate, Lower Egypt, Egypt, North Africa, Africa
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Latitude
30.7834° or 30° 47′ 0″ north
Longitude
30.9983° or 30° 59′ 54″ east
Population
430,000
Elevation
18 metres (59 feet)
UN/LOCODE
EG TAN
Open location code
8G2GQXMX+88
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
place=city
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Zulu—“Tanta” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “طنطا”
- Armenian: “Տանտա”
- Asturian: “Tanta”
- Azerbaijani: “Tənta”
- Basque: “Tanta”
- Belarusian: “Танта”
- Bengali: “টান্টা”
- Bengali: “তান্তা”
- Bulgarian: “Танта”
- Catalan: “Tantā”
- Cebuano: “Tanda”
- Chinese: “坦塔”
- Czech: “Tanta”
- Danish: “Tanta”
- Dutch: “Tanta”
- Egyptian Arabic: “طنطا”
- Esperanto: “Tanta”
- Esperanto: “Tanto”
- Estonian: “Ţanţā”
- Finnish: “Tanta”
- French: “Tanta”
- Georgian: “ტანტა”
- German: “Tanta”
- German: “Ṭanṭā”
- Greek: “Τάντα”
- Gujarati: “તંતા”
- Hausa: “Tanta”
- Hebrew: “טנטא”
- Hebrew: “טנטה”
- Hindi: “टांटा”
- Hindi: “तंता”
- Hungarian: “Tanta”
- Inari Sami: “Tanta”
- Indonesian: “Tanta”
- Irish: “Tanta”
- Italian: “Tanta”
- Japanese: “タンタ”
- Kabyle: “Ṭanṭa”
- Kannada: “ತಂತಾ”
- Korean: “탄타”
- Latvian: “Tanta”
- Lithuanian: “Tanta”
- Malagasy: “Tanda”
- Malay: “Tanta”
- Marathi: “तंता”
- Mingrelian: “ტანტა”
- Northern Sami: “Tanta”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Tanta”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Tanta”
- Norwegian: “Tanta”
- Persian: “طنطا”
- Polish: “Tanta”
- Portuguese: “Tanta”
- Russian: “Танта”
- Scots: “Tanta”
- Serbian: “Tanta”
- Serbian: “Танта”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Tanta”
- Silesian: “Tanta”
- Sinhala: “ටන්ටා”
- Skolt Sami: “Tanta”
- South Azerbaijani: “طنطا”
- Spanish: “Tanta”
- Swahili: “Tanta”
- Swedish: “Tanta”
- Tajik: “Танто”
- Tamil: “டன்டா”
- Telugu: “తంతా”
- Thai: “ฏ็อนฏอ”
- Turkish: “Tanta”
- Ukrainian: “Танта”
- Urdu: “طنطا”
- Uzbek: “Tanto”
- Venetian: “Tanta”
- Vietnamese: “Tanta”
- Waray (Philippines): “Tanta”
- Western Armenian: “Թանթա”
- Zulu: “Tanta”
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Localities in the Area
Places to explore: Al Sayed Al Badawy and Ahmed Al Bablly.
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