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Quesna

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Quesna, pronounced roughly Ewesna in Egyptian Arabic, is a city in Monufia Governorate, Egypt, in the central Nile Delta. The English Wikipedia article gives the area of the city as 49,009 feddans, about 210 square kilometers, and names Ewesna as its older name. The citypopulation.de tables record 36,492 inhabitants at the census of 1996, 44,667 in 2006, 61,193 in the estimate for July 2018 and 68,152 in the estimate for July 2023. GeoNames lists the town as Quweisna at about 30.56 degrees north and 31.16 degrees east.

Facts
Population
68,152 1
Elevation (m)
15 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, Quesna row, estimate of 2023-07-01
    36,492 44,667 61,193 68,152
  • 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 (t3)
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": 15.0, "location": { "lat": 30.564824, "lng": 31.157774
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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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Quesna (Wikipedia)
  • Part Of: Egypt, Lead sentence
    is a city in Monufia Governorate, Egypt
  • In Group: Cities of Northern Africa (World), Lead sentence
    is a city in Monufia Governorate, Egypt
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