Belqas
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Place details
- Locality
- مدينه بلقاس
- Region
- الدقهلية
- Country
- مصر
- Population
- 137,080
- Timezone
- Africa/Cairo
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Key facts
- Settlement.name
- Belqas
- Settlement.settlement_type
- Town
- Settlement.pushpin_map
- Egypt
- Settlement.pushpin_label_position
- bottom
- Settlement.pushpin_mapsize
- 300
- Settlement.pushpin_map_caption
- Location in Egypt
- Settlement.subdivision_type
- Country
- Settlement.subdivision_type1
- Governorate
- Settlement.subdivision_name1
- Dakahlia
- Settlement.unit_pref
- Metric
- Settlement.area_total_km2
- 725.7
- Settlement.population_as_of
- 2023
- Settlement.population_total
- 571,698
- Settlement.population_density_km2
- auto
- Settlement.population_blank1_title
- Ethnicities
- Settlement.timezone
- EET
- Settlement.utc_offset
- +2
- Settlement.timezone_DST
- EEST
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human settlement
- Country
- Egypt
- Located in
- Dakahlia Governorate
- Elevation
- 13
- Time zone
- UTC+02:00
- Capital of
- Markaz Bilqās
- Image
- Fc belkas whole team.JPG
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Encyclopedic overview
6 sectionsContents
- Etymology
- Economy
- Location
- Sites of interest
- See also
- References
Belqas (, ) is a town located in the north-western corner of the Dakahlia Governorate in Egypt.
== Etymology == The towns older name is al-Mima wa-l-Maaskar () points out that the modern name probably comes from Bilqis, Bilkis, Balqis, Makeda, Queen of Sheba . It is also a site of the old Coptic monastery called Deir al-Mema or Deir al-Askar.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Belqas” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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