Egypt
Lower Egypt
Gharbia Governorate

Tanta

Tanta is a city in . Tanta had a population of 658,798 in 2018, making it the fifth most populous city in Egypt. Tanta is located between Cairo and Alexandria: 94 km north of and 130 km southeast of .
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Places of Interest

Highlights include Maqam Sidi Ahmed Al-Badawy.

Mosque
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The Ahmad al-Badawi Mosque is a Sufi and shrine complex in Tanta, . The name of this mosque is derived from the Sufi mystic Ahmad al-Badawi, the founder of the Badawiyya Sufi order, who is buried in the shrine of the building.

Tanta

Latitude
30.7834° or 30° 47′ 0″ north
Longitude
30.9983° or 30° 59′ 54″ east
Population
430,000
Elevation
18 metres (59 feet)
United Nations Location Code
EG TAN
Open location code
8G2GQXMX+88
Open­Street­Map ID
node 2742102194
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
347497
Wiki­data ID
Q271771
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Satellite Map

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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: “Ptkheka”
  • Catalan: “Tanta”
  • Catalan: “Tantā”
  • Cebuano: “Tanda”
  • Chinese: “坦塔”
  • Czech: “Tanta”
  • Danish: “Tanta”
  • Dutch: “Tanta”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “طنطا Tanta”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “طنطا”
  • Esperanto: “Tanta”
  • Esperanto: “Tanto”
  • Estonian: “Tanta”
  • Estonian: “Ţanţā”
  • Finnish: “Tanta”
  • French: “Tanta”
  • French: “Tantah”
  • Georgian: “ტანტა”
  • German: “Tanta”
  • German: “Ṭanṭā”
  • Greek: “Τάντα”
  • Gujarati: “તંતા”
  • Hausa: “Tanta”
  • Hebrew: “טנטא”
  • Hebrew: “טנטה”
  • Hindi: “टांटा”
  • Hindi: “तांता”
  • Hungarian: “Tanta”
  • Inari Sami: “Tanta”
  • Indonesian: “Tanta”
  • Irish: “Tanta”
  • Italian: “Tanta”
  • Japanese: “タンタ”
  • Japanese: “タンター”
  • 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”
  • Serbian: “طنطا”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Tanta”
  • Sinhala: “ටන්ටා”
  • Skolt Sami: “Tanta”
  • South Azerbaijani: “طنطا”
  • Spanish: “Tanta”
  • Spanish: “Tantā”
  • Spanish: “Tanţa”
  • Spanish: “Tanţā”
  • Swahili: “Tanta”
  • Swedish: “Ta´nta”
  • Swedish: “Tanta”
  • Swedish: “Tantā”
  • Swedish: “Ţanţā”
  • Swedish: “Ṭanṭā”
  • Tajik: “Танто”
  • Tamil: “டன்டா”
  • Telugu: “తంతా”
  • Thai: “ฏ็อนฏอ”
  • Thai: “ตอนตอ”
  • Turkish: “Tanta”
  • Ukrainian: “Танта”
  • Urdu: “طنطا”
  • Uzbek: “Tanto”
  • Venetian: “Tanta”
  • Vietnamese: “Tanta”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Tanta”
  • Western Armenian: “Թանթա”
  • Zulu: “Tanta”

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