North Africa
Egypt
Alexandria Governorate

Bakos

Bakos, also known as Bacus, is a neighborhood in , . The former Egyptian president Gamal Abdel Nasser was born in 1918 in Bakos.
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  • Type: Neighborhood
  • Description: place in Alexandria, Egypt
  • Also known as: “Bakos, Alexandria”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Royal Jewellery Museum and sidi bishr mosque.

Museum
Photo: RolandUnger, CC BY-SA 3.0.
The Royal Jewelry Museum is an art and history museum in the neighborhood of , . It is located in the former palace of Princess Fatma Al-Zahra'.

Mosque
Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.
The is a located in the neighborhood of , on the north coast of . The mosque is named in honour of Sheikh Bishr Ibn Al-Hussein Ibn Muhammad Ibn Ubayd Allah Ibn Al-Hussein Ibn Bishr Al-Jawhari, a sheikh from the late 5th-century to early 6th-century AH who lived in Alexandria after coming from the . is situated 3½ km northeast of Bakos.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include San Stefano and Fleming.

Neighborhood
Photo: TheEgyptian, CC BY-SA 3.0.
is a neighborhood in , . The area was known for a landmark hotel-casino that was demolished in the late 1990s. That hotel was replaced by the Grand Plaza, a hotel-apartment-shopping mall complex that includes a luxury hotel, opened in 2007 and apartments, housed in the tallest building in Alexandria.

Neighborhood
is a neighborhood in , .

Neighborhood
Photo: Wing045, Public domain.
Kafr Abdu is an affluent neighborhood in , . The neighborhood mainly houses wealthy Egyptians, as well as foreigners living in Alexandria.

Bakos

Latitude
31.23379° or 31° 14′ 2″ north
Longitude
29.9702° or 29° 58′ 13″ east
Open location code
8G3F6XMC+G3
Open­Street­Map ID
way 749734834
Open­Street­Map feature
landuse=­residential
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­neighbourhood
Wiki­data ID
Q4519066
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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Uzbek—“Bakos” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “باكوس”
  • Arabic: “حي باكوس”
  • Danish: “Bakos”
  • Dutch: “Bakos”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “باكوس”
  • German: “Bakus”
  • Japanese: “バコス”
  • Persian: “محله باکوس”
  • South Azerbaijani: “محله باکوس”
  • Thai: “บากูส”
  • Urdu: “باکوس”
  • Uzbek: “Bacchus (jonli)”
  • Uzbek: “Bacchus”

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Localities in the Area

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Notable Places Nearby

Highlights include الهلال الأحمر المصري - فرع الإسكندرية - باكوس and مسجد الشوربجي.

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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 “Bakos”. Photo: Wikimedia, CC0.