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Kom Ombo is a city in Egypt, situated in the Aswan region. It lies at an elevation of 108 meters above sea level and operates within the UTC+02:00 time zone. The city has a population of 409,311.
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Place details
- Locality
- مدينه كوم امبو
- Region
- أسوان
- Country
- مصر
- Population
- 409,311
- Timezone
- Africa/Cairo
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Key facts
- Country
- Egypt
- Governorate
- Aswan Governorate
- Total
- 415 sq mi (1,076 km )
- Density
- 985.2/sq mi (380.4/km )
- Time zone
- UTC+2 ( EET )
- Summer dst
- UTC+3 ( EEST )
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- Commons category
- Kom Ombo
- topic's main category
- Category:Kom Ombo
- P12749
- Benedict XVI
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Travel guide
Understand
Kom Ombo sits in an irrigated basin on the east bank of the Nile, producing sugar cane and corn. The reason to visit is its temple, built from circa 180 BC into Roman times; there is sure to be much older building beneath this area that has not yet been excavated.
The climate is hot desert, pleasantly warm in winter and blisteringly hot in summer. Imagine the slave labourers excavating and erecting the monumental stone in this heat.
Buy
There's a handful of stores midtown near the "23 July" bridge over the railway tracks.
Hawkers with overpriced tat will hunt down any visitors looking like tourists.
Sleep
There's a guesthouse in town, and a couple of others on the river island facing the temple, but no confirmation that they are still in business (as of April 2020). So unless a local agent can fix you up, plan on visiting Kom Ombo on a day trip or as a stopoff along the Luxor-Aswan road.
Go next
15 km north are the remarkable royal quarries of Silsila. The route south, upriver, leads to Aswan, which has an impressive collection of antiquities. North downriver are Edfu and Esna, small towns both with a temple; then unmissable Luxor with Karnak and the Valley of the Kings.
Travel guide from Wikivoyage (CC BY-SA 4.0)
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Encyclopedic overview
Tour boats at the Temple of Kom Ombo
Kom Ombo (Egyptian Arabic: كوم أمبو; Coptic: ⲙ̄ⲃⲱ əmbō or ⲛ̄ⲃⲱ ənbō; Ancient Greek: Ὄμβοι Omboi or Ὄμβος Ombos; or Latin: Ambo and Ombi) is an agricultural town in Egypt famous for the Temple of Kom Ombo. It was originally an Egyptian city called Nubt, meaning City of Gold (not to be confused with the city north of Naqada that was also called Nubt/Ombos). Nubt is also known as Nubet or Nubyt (Nbyt). It became a Greek settlement during the Greco-Roman Period. The town's location on the Nile, 50 kilometres (31 mi) north of Aswan (Syene), gave it some control over trade routes from Nubia to the Nile Valley, but its main rise to prominence came with the erection of the Temple of Kom Ombo in the 2nd century BC.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Kom Ombo” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.