EG · Curated travel guide
Suez Canal, Great Pyramid of Giza, Aswan High Dam and 7 more — what each one is, and why it is worth the detour.
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Chosen from everything Wikidata knows about Egypt and ranked by how many Wikipedia language editions describe them, which is about as close to "famous" as open data gets.
Artificial sea-level waterway in Egypt
An artificial waterway at sea level in Egypt, running through the Isthmus of Suez to link the Mediterranean with the Red Sea, and dividing Asia from Africa. Its 193.3-kilometre-long (120.1-mile) channel is a key trade route between Asia and Europe.
Photo: Pierre Markuse from Hamm, Germany, CC BY 2.0
Largest pyramid in the Giza Necropolis, Egypt
The largest Egyptian pyramid and the best-known landmark of Giza's pyramid complex. Of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World it is the oldest, and the only one that survives largely intact.
Photo: Nina, CC BY 2.5
Dam in Aswan, Egypt
Often just called Aswan Dam, a dam across the Nile at Aswan, Egypt, built from 1960 to 1970 and one of the largest embankment dams in the world. The Egyptian government built it with Soviet Union help, to control floods, store more water for irrigation and produce hydroelectric power.
Photo: شرف الدين, CC BY-SA 3.0
Ancient lighthouse in Egypt
Also called the Pharos of Alexandria, a lighthouse built under Ptolemy II Philadelphus by Ancient Egypt's Ptolemaic Kingdom, estimated to have stood at least 100 metres (330 ft) tall.
Photo: Prof. Hermann Thiersch (1874–1939), Public domain
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UNESCO World Heritage Site in southern Egypt
A historic site of two huge temples cut into the rock, at the village of Abu Simbel in Aswan Governorate, Upper Egypt, close to Sudan. It lies on Lake Nasser's western bank, about 230 km (140 mi) southwest of Aswan.
Photo: Olaf Tausch, Public domain
Archaeological site near Cairo, Egypt
The site in Egypt of the Great Pyramid and the pyramids of Khafre and Menkaure, with their pyramid complexes and the Great Sphinx. All were built in the Fourth Dynasty of ancient Egypt's Old Kingdom, between c. 2600 – c. 2500 BC.
Photo: KennyOMG, CC BY-SA 4.0
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Necropolis in ancient Egypt
Also called the Valley of the Gates of the Kings, an area of Egypt where, for nearly 500 years from the Eighteenth to the Twentieth Dynasty, tombs were cut into the rock for pharaohs and powerful nobles of ancient Egypt's New Kingdom.
Photo: Fotograf/Photographer: Peter J. Bubenik (1995), CC BY-SA 2.0
Mountain in the Sinai Peninsula
Also called Jabal Musa, a mountain on Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, one of several places said to be the biblical Mount Sinai, where, in the scriptures of the three major Abrahamic religions, God gave the Ten Commandments to the Hebrew prophet Moses.
Photo: Gerd Eichmann, CC BY-SA 4.0
Limestone statue of a resting sphinx
A limestone statue of a sphinx at rest, the mythical creature with a human head and a lion's body. It was carved out of the bedrock of the Mokattam Formation, from the Eocene, and faces east on the Giza Plateau, on the Nile's west bank at Giza, Egypt.
Photo: MusikAnimal, CC BY-SA 3.0
African river delta bordering the Mediterranean
The delta in Lower Egypt where the Nile fans out and empties into the Mediterranean, one of the largest on Earth.
Photo: Jacques Descloitres, MODIS Rapid Response Team, NASA/sh, Public domain
Officially the Arab Republic of Egypt, a country across Africa's northeast corner and, through the Sinai Peninsula, Asia's southwest corner. The Mediterranean lies to its north, Israel and Palestine to its northeast, the Red Sea to its east, Sudan to its south and Libya to its west; in the northeast, the Gulf of Aqaba separates it from Saudi Arabia and Jordan.
Officially The Arab Republic of Egypt. Known locally as مصرMisr.
Based on the Wikipedia article, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0: the facts are Wikipedia's, the wording is this site's.
This guide lists 10: Suez Canal, Great Pyramid of Giza, Aswan High Dam and Lighthouse of Alexandria and others.
By machine, from open data, with no human ranking them and nobody able to pay for a place on the list. Everything Wikidata records in Egypt that is a building, a landform, a protected area or a tourist attraction, has coordinates, a photograph and an English Wikipedia article, is ranked by how many Wikipedia language editions wrote about it. Provinces, cities, airports, stations and stretches of sea shared with the neighbours are filtered out.
Arabic. The currency is EGP.
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