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El Fashn

Northern Africa

El Fashn is a city in Egypt near the southern borders of Beni Suef Governorate. Its Arabic name comes from a Coptic word meaning the castle, and in Ptolemaic and Byzantine Egypt the city was known by the Greek name Phebichis. The citypopulation.de tables record 52,589 inhabitants at the census of 1996, 65,621 in 2006, 101,928 in the estimate for July 2018 and 121,675 in the estimate for July 2023, which more than doubles the 1996 figure. GeoNames places the city at about 28.82 degrees north and 30.90 degrees east.

Facts
Population
121,675 1
Elevation (m)
37 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 Fashn row, estimate of 2023-07-01
    52,589 65,621 101,928 121,675
  • 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": 37.0, "location": { "lat": 28.823055, "lng": 30.899026
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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 Fashn (Wikipedia)
  • Part Of: Egypt, Lead sentence
    is a city in Egypt
  • In Group: Cities of Northern Africa (World), Lead sentence
    is a city in Egypt
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