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Airports In Egypt
This is a list of airports in Egypt, grouped by type and sorted by location. __TOC__ Airports See also * Transport in Egypt * List of airports by ICAO code: H#HE - Egypt * Wikipedia: WikiProject Aviation/Airline destination lists: Africa#Egypt Sources * * References {{Asia in topic, List of airports in * Airports Airports Egypt Egypt Egypt ( ar, مصر , ), officially the Arab Republic of Egypt, is a transcontinental country spanning the northeast corner of Africa and southwest corner of Asia via a land bridge formed by the Sinai Peninsula. It is bordered by the Mediter ...
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Airport
An airport is an aerodrome with extended facilities, mostly for commercial air transport. Airports usually consists of a landing area, which comprises an aerially accessible open space including at least one operationally active surface such as a runway for a plane to take off and to land or a helipad, and often includes adjacent utility buildings such as control towers, hangars and terminals, to maintain and monitor aircraft. Larger airports may have airport aprons, taxiway bridges, air traffic control centres, passenger facilities such as restaurants and lounges, and emergency services. In some countries, the US in particular, airports also typically have one or more fixed-base operators, serving general aviation. Operating airports is extremely complicated, with a complex system of aircraft support services, passenger services, and aircraft control services contained within the operation. Thus airports can be major employers, as well as important hubs for tourism ...
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Assiut
AsyutAlso spelled ''Assiout'' or ''Assiut'' ( ar, أسيوط ' , from ' ) is the capital of the modern Asyut Governorate in Egypt. It was built close to the ancient city of the same name, which is situated nearby. The modern city is located at , while the ancient city is located at . The city is home to one of the largest Coptic Catholic churches in the country. History Names and etymology The name of the city is derived from early Egyptian Zawty (''Z3JW.TJ'') (late Egyptian, Səyáwt) adopted into the Coptic as Syowt , which means "''Guardian''" of the northern approach of Upper Egypt. In Graeco-Roman Egypt, it was called Lycopolis or Lykopolis ( el, Λυκόπολις, ""), ('wolf city') Lycon, or Lyco. Ancient Asyut Ancient Asyut was the capital of the Thirteenth Nome of Upper Egypt (''Lycopolites Nome'') around 3100 BC. It was located on the western bank of the Nile. The two most prominent gods of ancient Egyptian Asyut were Anubis and Wepwawet, both funerary deit ...
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El Gouna Airport
El Gouna Airport is an airport serving the Red Sea resort town of El Gouna, Egypt. The Hurghada VOR-DME (Ident: HGD) is located 12.6 nautical miles off the threshold of runway 34. See also *Transport in Egypt *List of airports in Egypt This is a list of airports in Egypt, grouped by type and sorted by location. __TOC__ Airports See also * Transport in Egypt * List of airports by ICAO code: H#HE - Egypt * Wikipedia: WikiProject Aviation/Airline destination lists: Africa ... References * Google Earth External links OurAirports - EgyptOpenStreetMap - El Gouna Airports in Egypt {{Egypt-airport-stub ...
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El Gouna
El Gouna ( ar, الجونة ' , "the Lagoon") is an Egyptian tourist city, owned and developed by Samih Sawiris' Orascom Development, dating from 1989. It is located on the Red Sea in the Red Sea Governorate of Egypt, north of Hurghada. It is part of the Red Sea Riviera, and a host city of the El Gouna Film Festival. El Gouna has 10 kilometers of coastline and consists of 20 islands surrounded by lagoons. The town is 25 kilometers away from the Hurghada International Airport. El Gouna buildings were designed by European and American architects to resemble traditional rural Egyptian architecture such as that found in the Egyptian countryside and in Nubian villages. El Gouna specializes in water-sports. There are several beaches: including Zeytuna Beach ( ar, شاطئ زيتونة) located on its own island, Mangroovy Beach, Moods Beach and other hotel beaches. There are three main areas in El Gouna, Downtown, ''Tamr Henna Square'' ( ar, ميدان تمر حنة) and the ''Abu ...
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El Alamain International Airport
El Alamein International Airport (Arabic: ''Maṭār El ʿAlamein El Dawli'') is an international airport located in El Dabaa, Matrouh Governorate, Egypt. The airport is located at the Northern coast, west of Alexandria. Operations Overview El Alamein International Airport is owned and operated by International Airports Company which is KATO investment subsidiary. On 1999 a bid for build–operate–transfer (BOT), was won by International Airport Company of 50-year extendable concession. The airport occupies an area of with a single terminal which can handle 600 passengers per hour. Runways El Alamein International Airport has a single runway , suitable for A380-800 operations. Airlines and destinations As of August 2021, there are no scheduled flights to the airport. See also * List of airports in Egypt * Transport in Egypt Transport in Egypt is centered in Cairo and largely follows the pattern of settlement along the Nile. The Ministry of Transportation and other ...
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El Dabaa
El Dabaa ( ar, الضبعة  ) is a town in the Matrouh Governorate, Egypt. It lies from Cairo on the north coast and is served by the El Alamain International Airport. It is famous for the Russian technology nuclear power plant being constructed to the north east of the city boundaries. As of 2017, El Dabaa had an estimated population of 49,805. In 2012, a story published in the news section of Nature Journal website, stated that:"''... adioactive/nowiki> material was taken from a laboratory at the El Dabaa nuclear power plant on the country’s Mediterranean coast.''" But as of 2020, the El Dabaa nuclear power plant was only bare land. As of 2017, only the first stage of preliminary engineering survey was conducted and the hydrographic and hydrological survey work was carried on. The construction on the plant was expected to start in 2020, but at the beginning of 2021 it was still in the waiting. El Dabaa has been targeted by protesters who are claiming that their land ...
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El Arish International Airport
El Arish International Airport ( ar, مطار العريش الدولي) is an airport near El Arish, Egypt. In 2011 the airport served 5,991 passengers (-45.4% vs. 2010). Operations The airport was the home base of Palestinian Airlines which ceased operations in December 2020.ch-aviation.com - Palestinian Airlines goes into liquidation
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In May 2012, the company restarted two-weekly flights to Amman, with flights to to follow soon. It is one of the closest airports to the

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El Arish
ʻArish or el-ʻArīsh ( ar, العريش ' , ''Hrinokorura'') is the capital and largest city (with 164,830 inhabitants ) of the North Sinai Governorate of Egypt, as well as the largest city on the entire Sinai Peninsula, lying on the Mediterranean coast northeast of Cairo. It borders the Gaza Strip and Israel. ʻArīsh is distinguished by its clear blue water, widespread fruitful palmy wood on its coast, and its soft white sand. It has a marina, and many luxury hotels. The city also has some of the faculties of Suez Canal University. ʻArīsh is located by a big wadi, the Wādī al-ʻArīsh, which receives flash flood water from much of north and central Sinai. The Azzaraniq Protectorate is on the eastern side of ʻArīsh. History The earliest historical attestation for the city is found in the Septuagint, Isaiah 27:12. The city grew around a Bedouin settlement near the ancient Ptolemaic outpost of Rhinocorura (in Greek "''the place where noses (of criminals) are cu ...
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Dakhla Oasis Airport
Dakhla Oasis Airport is an airport serving the archaeological region of Dakhla Oasis, Egypt. Airlines and destinations There are currently no scheduled services to and from the airport. See also *Transport in Egypt *List of airports in Egypt This is a list of airports in Egypt, grouped by type and sorted by location. __TOC__ Airports See also * Transport in Egypt * List of airports by ICAO code: H#HE - Egypt * Wikipedia: WikiProject Aviation/Airline destination lists: Africa ... References External links OurAirports - Egypt Great Circle Mapper - Dakhla Oasis Airports in Egypt New Valley Governorate {{Egypt-airport-stub ...
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Dakhla Oasis
Dakhla Oasis (Egyptian Arabic: , , "''the inner oasis"''), is one of the seven oases of Egypt's Western Desert. Dakhla Oasis lies in the New Valley Governorate, 350 km (220 mi.) from the Nile and between the oases of Farafra and Kharga. It measures approximately 80 km (50 mi) from east to west and 25 km (16 mi) from north to south. Etymology The Arabic name of the oasis "''the inner oasis''" is a direct translation of its Coptic () and Greek () names. History Prehistory The first contacts between the pharaonic power and the oases started around 2550 BCE. The human history of this oasis started during the Pleistocene, when nomadic tribes settled sometimes there, in a time when the Sahara climate was wetter and where humans could have access to lakes and marshes. But about 6,000 years ago, the entire Sahara became drier, changing progressively into a hyper-arid desert (with less than 50 mm of rain per year). However, specialists think tha ...
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Cairo International Airport
Cairo International Airport (; ''Maṭār El Qāhira El Dawly'') is the principal international airport of Cairo and the largest and busiest airport in Egypt. It serves as the primary hub for Egyptair and Nile Air as well as several other airlines. The airport is located in Heliopolis, to the northeast of Cairo around from the business area of the city and has an area of approximately . It is one of the busiest airports in Africa, in terms of total passengers. History During World War II, the United States Army Air Forces (USAAF) built John Payne Field Air Force Base to serve the Allied Forces, rather than take over the existing Almaza Airport located away. Payne Field was a major Air Transport Command air cargo and passenger hub, connecting westwards through Benghazi Airport (during the war known as ''Soluch Airfield'') to Algiers airport on the North African route to Dakar Airport, in French West Africa. Other locations that transport routes were flown were R ...
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Cairo
Cairo ( ; ar, القاهرة, al-Qāhirah, ) is the capital of Egypt and its largest city, home to 10 million people. It is also part of the largest urban agglomeration in Africa, the Arab world and the Middle East: The Greater Cairo metropolitan area, with a population of 21.9 million, is the 12th-largest in the world by population. Cairo is associated with ancient Egypt, as the Giza pyramid complex and the ancient cities of Memphis and Heliopolis are located in its geographical area. Located near the Nile Delta, the city first developed as Fustat, a settlement founded after the Muslim conquest of Egypt in 640 next to an existing ancient Roman fortress, Babylon. Under the Fatimid dynasty a new city, ''al-Qāhirah'', was founded nearby in 969. It later superseded Fustat as the main urban centre during the Ayyubid and Mamluk periods (12th–16th centuries). Cairo has long been a centre of the region's political and cultural life, and is titled "the city of a thousand m ...
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