Upper Egypt
Upper Egypt is a region of the Nile Valley in Egypt, between Luxor and Aswan and the historical region of Lower Nubia, characterised by a number of ancient settlements and temple towns that draw thousands of travellers every year.
Essential Destinations
Top destinations: Luxor and Aswan.
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Places to explore: Edfu and Esna.
Upper Egypt
- Type: Region
- Description: strip of land that spans from the first cataract at Aswan to Mephis latitudinally, and longitudinally along the Ro Henu corridor, the terrestrial gateway of the Mu-qed conduit
- Also known as: “Aş Şa‘īd”, “Boven-Egypte”, “Egipt Uhel”, “El-Said”, “Es Sa‘id”, “Goi Egipto”, “Han.remmaris”, “Haute-Egypte”, “Llista de ciutats de l’Alt Egipte”, “Mesir Atas”, “Oberägyptisch”, “Sa’id Misr”, “Şa‘īd Mişr”, “Upper Egypt, Upper Egypt”, “Патрос”, “מצרים עילית”, “الصعيدي”, “الوجة القبلى”, “الوجه القبلي”, “صعيد”, “مصر العليا”, and “وجه القبلي”
- Categories: historical country and locality
- Location: Egypt, North Africa, Africa
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Latitude of center
22.4167° or 22° 25′ north
Longitude of center
31.75° or 31° 45′ east
Elevation
115 metres (377 feet)
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In Other Languages
From Afrikaans to Yue Chinese—“Upper Egypt” goes by many names.
- Afrikaans: “Bo-Egipte”
- Arabic: “الصعيد”
- Arabic: “صعيد مصر”
- Armenian: “Վերին Եգիպտոս”
- Azerbaijani: “Yuxarı Misir”
- Basque: “Egipto Garaia”
- Belarusian: “Верхні Егіпет”
- Bengali: “উচ্চ মিশর”
- Bosnian: “Gornji Egipat”
- Breton: “Gorre Egipt”
- Bulgarian: “Горен Египет”
- Catalan: “Alt Egipte”
- Chinese: “上埃及”
- Croatian: “Gornji Egipat”
- Czech: “Horní Egypt”
- Danish: “Øvre Egypten”
- Dimli (individual language): “Mısıro Corên”
- Dutch: “Opper-Egypte”
- Egyptian Arabic: “صعيد مصر”
- Esperanto: “Alta Egiptio”
- Estonian: “Ülem-Egiptus”
- Finnish: “Ylä-Egypti”
- French: “Haute-Égypte”
- French: “Upper Egypt”
- Fulah: “𞤁𞤮𞤱𞤪𞤭 𞤥𞤭𞤧𞤭𞤪𞤢”
- Galician: “Alto Exipto”
- Georgian: “ზემო ეგვიპტე”
- German: “Oberägypten”
- German: “Upper Egypt”
- Greek: “Άνω Αίγυπτος”
- Hebrew: “מצרים העליונה”
- Hindi: “उपरी मिस्र”
- Hungarian: “Felső-Egyiptom”
- Icelandic: “Efra Egyptaland”
- Indonesian: “Mesir Hulu”
- Irish: “An Éigipt Uachtarach”
- Italian: “Alto Egitto”
- Japanese: “上エジプト”
- Korean: “상이집트”
- Latin: “Aegyptus superior”
- Lithuanian: “Aukštutinis Egiptas”
- Macedonian: “Горен Египет”
- Malagasy: “Ejipta Ambony”
- Malay: “Mesir Hulu”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Siōng Ai-ki̍p”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Øvre Egypt”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Øvre Egypt”
- Norwegian: “Øvre Egypt”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Nauta Egipte”
- Persian: “مصر علیا”
- Polish: “Górny Egipt”
- Portuguese: “Alto Egito”
- Romanian: “Egiptul de Sus”
- Russian: “Верхний Египет”
- Serbian: “Gornji Egipat”
- Serbian: “Горњи Египат”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Gornji Egipat”
- Sindhi: “مٿانهين مصر”
- Slovenian: “Gornji Egipt”
- Slovenian: “Zgornji Egipt”
- Spanish: “Alto Egipto”
- Swahili: “Mkoa wa juu wa Misri”
- Swedish: “Övre Egypten”
- Tamil: “மேல் எகிப்து”
- Thai: “อียิปต์บน”
- Turkish: “Yukarı Mısır”
- Ukrainian: “Верхній Єгипет”
- Urdu: “بالائی مصر”
- Venetian: “Alto Ezito”
- Vietnamese: “Thượng Ai Cập”
- Waray (Philippines): “Taas nga Ehipto”
- Western Panjabi: “بالائی مصر”
- Yue Chinese: “上埃及”
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