Aswan
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Map showing governorate
Missing image Egypt.Aswan.RiverView.01.jpg The Nile at Aswan, seen from Elephantine Island |
Missing image Railway_Station_Street,_Aswan,_Egypt,_Oct_2004_A.jpg A view along the street connecting railway station and Nile |
Missing image Railway_Station_Street,_Aswan,_Egypt,_Oct_2004_B.jpg Another view along the street |
Missing image Aswan_Street,_Egypt,_Oct_2004.jpg A street parallel to Corniche in Aswan |
Aswan (أسوان Aswān) (24°05′ N 32°56′ E, population 200,000) is a city in the south of Egypt, the capital of the governorate of the same name. It stands on the east bank of the Nile at the first cataract and is a busy market and tourist center.
Aswan is one of the driest inhabited places in the world; as of early 2001, the last rain here was 6 years ago. In Nubian settlements they generally do not bother to roof all of the rooms in their houses.
This is identified with the ancient city of Syene, which is famous for providing a basis on which Eratosthenes disputed the Flat Earth theory and attempted to determine the circumference of the Earth.
See also: Aswan Dam, Elephantine, Kitchener's Island, Nag Hammadi
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