Zagazig

Zagazig is a town of about 430,000 people in , on the Muweis Canal. There is a museum of antiquities, the Sharkeya National Museum that contains many important archaeological exhibits…
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  • 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.

Photo: Einsamer Schütze, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Bubastis, also known in Arabic as or in Egyptian as Per-Bast, was an ancient Egyptian city. Bubastis is often identified with the biblical Pi-Beseth.

Stadium
Photo: Miklog, Public domain.
, 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

Latitude
30.5853° or 30° 35′ 7″ north
Longitude
31.5035° or 31° 30′ 13″ east
Population
285,000
Elevation
16 metres (52 feet)
IATA airport code
QZZ
United Nations Location Code
EG QZZ
Open location code
8G2HHGP3+4C
Open­Street­Map ID
node 299498464
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
359493
Wiki­data 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”
  • Hindi: “ज़गाज़ीग”
  • 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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