Zagazig
Zagazig is a town of about 430,000 people in Lower Egypt, on the Muweis Canal. There is a museum of antiquities, the Sharkeya National Museum that contains many important archaeological exhibits…Photo: Dr.walid reda ashour, CC BY-SA 3.0.
- Type: City with 285,000 residents
- Description: city in Egypt
- Also known as: “As Zaqāzīq”, “Az Zagāzīg”, “Az Zaqāzīq”, “Banha”, “Es Zaqiziq”, “Ez Zaqāzīq”, and “Zaqazîq”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Tell Basta and Zagazig Stadium.
Tell Basta
Photo: Einsamer Schütze, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Bubastis, also known in Arabic as Tell-Basta or in Egyptian as Per-Bast, was an ancient Egyptian city. Bubastis is often identified with the biblical Pi-Beseth.
Zagazig Stadium
Stadium
Photo: Miklog, Public domain.
Zagazig Stadium, officially Zagazig University Stadium, is a multi-purpose stadium in Zagazig, Egypt. It is currently used mostly for football matches and hosts the home games of El Sharkia SC. It holds 20,000 people.
Zagazig
- Categories: big city and locality
- Location: Sharqia Province, Lower Egypt, Egypt, North Africa, Africa
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
30.5853° or 30° 35′ 7″ northLongitude
31.5035° or 31° 30′ 13″ eastPopulation
285,000Elevation
16 metres (52 feet)IATA airport code
QZZUnited Nations Location Code
EG QZZOpen location code
8G2HHGP3+4COpenStreetMap ID
node 299498464OpenStreetMap feature
place=cityGeoNames ID
359493Wikidata ID
Q140304
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Zulu—“Zagazig” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “الزقازيق”
- Arabic: “بنها”
- Arabic: “مدينة بنها”
- Armenian: “Զակազիկ”
- Asturian: “Zagazig”
- Azerbaijani: “Əz-Zəqaziq”
- Basque: “Zagazig”
- Belarusian: “Заказык”
- Belarusian: “Эз-Заказык”
- Bulgarian: “Заказик”
- Catalan: “Zagazig”
- Cebuano: “Zagazig”
- Chinese: “宰加济格”
- Croatian: “Zagazig”
- Czech: “Zagazig”
- Czech: “Zakázík”
- Danish: “Zagazig”
- Dutch: “Zagazig”
- Egyptian Arabic: “الزقازيق”
- Egyptian Arabic: “بنها”
- Esperanto: “Zagazigo”
- Estonian: “Az-Zaqāzīq”
- Finnish: “Zagazig”
- French: “Zagazig”
- French: “Zaqaziq”
- Georgian: “ელ-ზაკაზიკი”
- German: “az-Zaqaziq”
- German: “Zagazig”
- German: “Zaqāzīq”
- Greek: “Ζαγαζίγ”
- Greek: “Ζαγκαζίγκ”
- Hausa: “Zagazig”
- Hebrew: “זקאזיק”
- Hungarian: “Zagázíg”
- Indonesian: “Zagazig”
- Irish: “Zagazig”
- Italian: “Zagazig”
- Japanese: “ザガジグ”
- Kabyle: “Zagazig”
- Korean: “자가지그”
- Lithuanian: “Zakazikas”
- Malagasy: “Zagazig”
- Malay: “Zagazig”
- Marathi: “झगाझिग”
- Mingrelian: “ელ-ზაკაზიკი”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Zaqaziq”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Zaqaziq”
- Norwegian: “Zaqaziq”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Zagazig”
- Persian: “زقازیق”
- Polish: “Az Zakazik”
- Polish: “Az-Zakazik”
- Polish: “Zagazig”
- Portuguese: “Zagazig”
- Portuguese: “Zagazigue”
- Russian: “Эз-Заказик”
- Scots: “Zagazig”
- Serbian: “Загазиг”
- Serbian: “Заказик”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Zakazik”
- Slovenian: “Zagazig”
- South Azerbaijani: “زقازیق”
- Spanish: “Zaqaziq”
- Swahili: “Zagazig”
- Swedish: “Zagazig”
- Tajik: “Аз-Зақозиқ”
- Thai: “อัซซะกอซีก”
- Turkish: “Zagazig”
- Ukrainian: “Заказік”
- Urdu: “زقازیق”
- Urdu: “زگزیگ”
- Uzbek: “Az-zaqoziq”
- Uzbek: “Az-Zaqoziq”
- Venetian: “Zagazig”
- Waray (Philippines): “Zagazig”
- Western Armenian: “Զակազիկ”
- Zulu: “Zagazig”
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