Ashmoun
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Place details
- Locality
- أشمون
- Region
- المنوفية
- Country
- مصر
- Population
- 124,483
- Timezone
- Africa/Cairo
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Key facts
- Settlement.name
- Ashmun
- Settlement.native_name
- أشمون
- Settlement.native_name_lang
- ar
- Settlement.settlement_type
- City
- Settlement.image_map
- مركز أشمون.png
- Settlement.map_caption
- Location in Monufia Governorate
- Settlement.pushpin_map
- Egypt
- Settlement.pushpin_label_position
- bottom
- Settlement.pushpin_map_caption
- Location in Egypt
- Settlement.subdivision_type
- Country
- Settlement.subdivision_type1
- Governorate
- Settlement.subdivision_name1
- Monufia
- Settlement.unit_pref
- Metric
- Settlement.area_total_km2
- 315.6
- Settlement.elevation_m
- 12
- Settlement.population_total
- 926,301
- Settlement.population_as_of
- 2023
- Settlement.population_density_km2
- auto
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human settlement
- Official name
- أشمون
- Country
- Egypt
- Located in
- Monufia Governorate
- Population
- 84871
- Elevation
- 17
- Time zone
- UTC+02:00
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- native label
- أشمون
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Encyclopedic overview
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Ashmoun () is a city in the south of Monufia Governorate, Egypt.
The city's Arabic name comes from Coptic Chmoumi (), of unclear etymology, that could be possibly related to a Coptic word for "spring, source" (). It was also known as Ashmoun Gerisat (), a calque of , where Ptihot is a name of a nearby town, modern Gerays ().
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Ashmoun” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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