El Maragha is a city in the Sohag Governorate in Upper Egypt, on the west bank of the Nile. It also has a Coptic name, recorded in the English Wikipedia article. The citypopulation.de tables give 31,559 inhabitants at the census of 1996, 38,393 in 2006, 49,872 in the estimate for July 2018 and 55,952 in the estimate for July 2023. GeoNames places the city at about 26.70 degrees north and 31.60 degrees east and also lists Markaz al Maraghah, the district of which the city is the seat.
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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, El Maragha row, estimate of 2023-07-01
31,559 38,393 49,872 55,952
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 (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 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": 64.0, "location": { "lat": 26.699814, "lng": 31.604644
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
El Maragha (Wikipedia)
Part Of: Egypt, Lead sentence
is a city in the Sohag Governorate in Upper Egypt
In Group: Cities of Northern Africa (World), Lead sentence
is a city in the Sohag Governorate in Upper Egypt
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