Damietta (Egyptian Arabic: دمياط Dumyāṭ [domˈjɑːtˤ]; Coptic: ⲧⲁⲙⲓⲁϯ, romanized: Tamiati) is a port city and the capital of the Damietta Governorate in Egypt, a former bishopric and present multiple Catholic titular see.It is located at the Damietta branch, an eastern distributary of the Nile Delta, 15 kilometres (9.3 mi) from the Mediterranean Sea, about 200 kilometres ...

Rosetta or Rashid (/ r oʊ ˈ z ɛ t ə /; Arabic: رشيد Rašīd IPA: [ɾɑˈʃiːd]; French: Rosette ; Coptic: ϯⲣⲁϣⲓⲧ ti-Rashit, Ancient Greek: Βολβιτίνη Bolbitinē) is a port city of the Nile Delta, 65 km (40 mi) east of Alexandria, in Egypt's Beheira governorate.The Rosetta Stone was discovered there in 1799.. Founded around the 9th century on site of the ancient town ...

New Alamein (Arabic: العلمين الجديدة), is a new city in northwest Egypt inaugurated by Egyptian President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi on 1 March 2018. New Alamein lies on the Mediterranean Sea, approximately 85 km west of Borg El Arab International Airport.Still under construction, New Alamein was conceived by the Egyptian government as a center for tourism, education, and …

Tanta (Arabic: طنطا Ṭanṭa pronounced [ˈtˤɑntˤɑ], Coptic: ⲧⲁⲛⲧⲁⲑⲟ) is a city in Egypt with the country's fifth largest populated area and 658,798 inhabitants as of 2018. Tanta is located between Cairo and Alexandria: 94 km (58 mi) north of Cairo and 130 km (81 mi) southeast of Alexandria.The capital of Gharbia Governorate, it is a center for the cotton-ginning industry.

The Bodmer Papyri are a group of twenty-two papyri discovered in Egypt in 1952. They are named after Martin Bodmer, who purchased them.The papyri contain segments from the Old and New Testaments, early Christian literature, Homer, and Menander.The oldest, P 66 dates to c. 200 AD. Most of the papyri are kept at the Bodmer Library, in Cologny, Switzerland outside …

List of towns and villages in Egypt; Geography of Egypt; Climate of Egypt; List of historical capitals of Egypt; List of metropolitan areas in Africa; List of largest cities in the Arab world; List of cities in Asia; Further reading. Chaichian, Mohammad A. (2009). Town and Country in the Middle East: Iran and Egypt in the Transition to ...

El Alamein (Arabic: العلمين, romanized: al-ʿAlamayn, lit. 'the two flags', IPA: [elʕælæˈmeːn] ()) is a town in the northern Matrouh Governorate of Egypt. Located on the Arab's Gulf, Mediterranean Sea, it lies 106 kilometres (66 mi) west of Alexandria and 300 kilometres (186 mi) northwest of Cairo.As of 2007, it had a population of 7,397 inhabitants.

6th of October (Arabic: السادس من أكتوبر, romanized: Al Sādis Min Uktōber; Egyptian Arabic: ستة اكتوبر, romanized: Setta Oktōbar) is a city in Giza Governorate, a satellite town and part of the urban area of Cairo, Egypt, 32 km (20 miles) outside the city. It has a population ranging between some 185,000 in the city to an estimated 500,000 inhabitants in the wider area.

Giza (/ ˈ ɡ iː z ə /; sometimes spelled Gizah, Geeza; Egyptian Arabic: الجيزة el-Gīza, Egyptian Arabic pronunciation: [el ˈgiːze]) is the second-largest city in Egypt after Cairo and fourth-largest city in Africa after Kinshasa, Lagos and Cairo. It is the capital of Giza Governorate with a total population of 9.2 million as of 2021. It is located on the west bank of the Nile, 4.9 ...

Mersa Matruh (Arabic: مرسى مطروح, romanized: Marsā Maṭrūḥ, IPA: [ˈmæɾsæ mɑtˤˈɾuːħ]), also transliterated as Marsa Matruh, is a port in Egypt and the capital of Matrouh Governorate.It is located 240 km (150 mi) west of Alexandria and 222 km (138 mi) east of Sallum on the main highway from the Nile Delta to the Libyan border.