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El Qurein

Northern Africa

El Qurein is a city in the Sharqia Governorate of Egypt, in the eastern Nile Delta. The English Wikipedia article gives an estimated population of 101,238 as of 2023, the same figure the citypopulation.de table shows for the estimate of July 2023, and that table also records 51,833 inhabitants at the census of 1996, 64,453 in 2006 and 87,250 in the estimate for July 2018, so the population has roughly doubled since 1996. GeoNames places the city at about 30.62 degrees north and 31.74 degrees east.

Facts
Population
101,238 1
Elevation (m)
13 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 Qurein row, estimate of 2023-07-01
    51,833 64,453 87,250 101,238
  • 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 (t2b)
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": 13.0, "location": { "lat": 30.616179, "lng": 31.735137
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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 Qurein (Wikipedia)
  • Part Of: Egypt, Lead sentence
    is a city in the Sharqia Governorate of Egypt
  • In Group: Cities of Northern Africa (World), Lead sentence
    is a city in the Sharqia Governorate of Egypt
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