Alexandria is a major city in Egypt. Lying at the western edge of the Nile River Delta, it extends about 40 km along the country's northern coast. This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/
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Area (sq km) Founding Year Population Estimate Year Elevation (m) Elevation Band Climate Zone Connections
Associated With
alexandria is associated with alexandria-governorate.
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Capital Of
alexandria is the capital of alexandria-governorate.
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at its headquarters in Alexandria, Virginia
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Source Wikipedia: Isidore of PelusiumInfobox: birth_placetier 2Quote, Infobox: birth_place
Alexandria, Egypt
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Source Paulus Alexandrinus (Wikipedia)Article textQuote, Article text
He lived in Alexandria, one of the most scholarly cities of the Roman world, where astrology was also at its most sophisticated.
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Modern scholars tend to counterpoise the two men, since both were roughly contemporary and lived in Alexandria; yet Valens' work elaborated the more practical techniques that arose from ancient tradition, while Ptolemy, very much the scientist, tended to focus more on creating a theoretically consistent model based on his Aristotelian causal framework.
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Source Mixed Courts of Egypt (Wikipedia)Infobox: locationQuote, Infobox: location
Cairo, Alexandria, Mansoura (three main tribunals)
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1. Alexandria (Wikipedia)
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Alexandria is a major city in Egypt.
Infobox: population_urban
5,362,517
Article text
Alexandria extends beyond its administrative municipal city limits as well as its urban agglomeration, with a population of 6,100,000 in 2023 over an area of 1,661 square kilometres (641 sq mi).
Infobox: area_urban_km2
1,108
Infobox, Elevation
-1 m
Infobox, coordinates (latitude)
31.19750 N 29.89250 E
Infobox, coordinates (longitude)
31.19750 N 29.89250 E
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Lying at the western edge of the Nile River Delta, it extends about 40 km (25 mi) along the country's northern coast.
Associated With: Egypt, Infobox, Country
Egypt
- In Group: Cities of Northern Africa (World), Wikipedia; part-of country and UN M49 subregion
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3. GeoNames: Alexandria - GeoNames
GeoNamescities500 record 361058
31.20176 29.91582 P PPLA EG 06 5263542 9 Africa/Cairo
Place record, elevation
Elevation ca. 9 m
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Koeppen-Geiger map (Kottek et al., University of Veterinary Medicine Vienna)Koeppen-Geiger-ASCII.txt grid cell 31.25, 29.75Quote, Koeppen-Geiger-ASCII.txt grid cell 31.25, 29.75
31.25 29.75 BWh
Alexandria Governorate (Wikipedia)
Wikimedia FoundationInfobox: seatQuote, Infobox: seat
Alexandria (capital)
Wikidata: Alexandria
Wikidata Q87, class allow-list match verified against P17/real-world identity (w-geo-qidcite-0926).View the Source Reader Challenges (0)
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