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El Idwa

Northern Africa

El Idwa is a town in the Minya Governorate of Egypt, on the west bank of the Nile in Upper Egypt. GeoNames lists it as a populated place at about 28.70 degrees north and 30.77 degrees east and also records a Markaz al Idwah, the surrounding district. The citypopulation.de tables give its population as 13,553 at the census of 1996, 15,875 at the census of 2006, 23,416 in the estimate for July 2018 and 27,418 in the estimate for July 2023, so the town has roughly doubled in size since 1996.

Facts
Population
27,418 1
Elevation (m)
33 2
Elevation Band
Lowland 2
Climate Zone
Dry 3
Time Zone
UTC+02:00 4
Sources
1. City Population: Egypt: Cities and Towns, population statistics
City Population
  • Cities and Towns table, El Idwa row, estimate of 2023-07-01
    13,553 15,875 23,416 27,418
  • On Continent: Africa, Page breadcrumb: Home, Africa, Egypt
    Home Africa Egypt
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2. Opentopodata (SRTM, ASTER, EU-DEM elevation API): Opentopodata SRTM 90 m elevations for Egyptian city coordinates (t2a)
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 lowland
Quote, 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": 33.0, "location": { "lat": 28.699186, "lng": 30.767303
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3. CIA World Factbook (factbook.json archive): The World Factbook archive: Egypt
CIA World Factbook (factbook.json archive)Environment.Climate.text
Quote, Environment.Climate.text
desert; hot, dry summers with moderate winters
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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
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El Idwa (Wikipedia)
  • Part Of: Egypt, Lead sentence
    is a town in the Minya Governorate of Egypt
  • In Group: Cities of Northern Africa (World), Lead sentence
    is a town in the Minya Governorate of Egypt
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