El-Bawiti, usually written Bawiti, is a town in the Western Desert of Egypt and the largest settlement in the Bahariya Oasis. Its Arabic name is al-Bawiti, taken from a Coptic word meaning assembly or monastery. The town had 15,978 inhabitants, the figure the English Wikipedia article gives, and the citypopulation.de table shows it growing from 6,551 at the census of 1996 to 10,188 in 2006 and 15,098 in the estimate for July 2018. It lies at about 28.35 degrees north and 28.87 degrees east, and the administrative tables list it under Giza Governorate.
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Elevation (m) Elevation Band Climate Zone Sources
1. City Population: Egypt: Cities and Towns, population statistics
City PopulationCities and Towns table, Bawiti row, estimate of 2023-07-01
6,551 10,188 15,098 15,978
On Continent: Africa, Page breadcrumb: Home, Africa, Egypt
Home Africa Egypt
View the Source 2. Opentopodata (SRTM, ASTER, EU-DEM elevation API): Opentopodata SRTM 90 m elevations for Egyptian city coordinates (t1)
Opentopodata (SRTM, ASTER, EU-DEM elevation API)SRTM 90 m result at the GeoNames coordinates of the city; band by the lane rule of 10 m or less sea-level, to 500 m lowlandQuote, SRTM 90 m result at the GeoNames coordinates of the city; band by the lane rule of 10 m or less sea-level, to 500 m lowland
"elevation": 131.0, "location": { "lat": 28.348274, "lng": 28.869362
3. CIA World Factbook (factbook.json archive): The World Factbook archive: Egypt
CIA World Factbook (factbook.json archive)Environment.Climate.textQuote, Environment.Climate.text
desert; hot, dry summers with moderate winters
4. IANA Time Zone Database: IANA Time Zone Database, africa zone file
IANA Time Zone DatabaseZone Africa/Cairo, the one zone of Egypt (standard offset UTC+2)Quote, Zone Africa/Cairo, the one zone of Egypt (standard offset UTC+2)
Zone Africa/Cairo 2:05:09 - LMT 1900 Oct 2:00 Egypt EE%sT
Bawiti (Wikipedia)
Part Of: Egypt, Lead sentence
is a town in the Western desert in Egypt
In Group: Cities of Northern Africa (World), Lead sentence
is a town in the Western desert in Egypt
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