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Nag Hammadi is a city in Egypt, situated within the Qena Governorate. It serves as the capital of the Markaz Naj‘ Ḩammādī administrative district. The city is located at coordinates 26.05, 32.25 and has an elevation above sea level of 78 meters. It operates in the UTC+02:00 time zone, which corresponds to the Africa/Cairo timezone.
The population of Nag Hammadi is recorded as 660,690 in one dataset, while another source lists the population as 59,601. The local name for the city is نجع حمادي. Current weather observations indicate a temperature of 27.36 degrees, humidity of 21 percent, pressure of 1016, and wind speed of 4.69.
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Place details
- Locality
- نجع حمادي
- Region
- قنا
- Country
- مصر
- Population
- 59,601
- Timezone
- Africa/Cairo
via OpenStreetMap · GeoNames
Key facts
- Country
- Egypt
- Governorate
- Qena
- Total
- 103.9 sq mi (269.2 km )
- Urban
- 61,737
- Rural
- 598,953
- Time zone
- UTC+2 ( EET )
- Summer dst
- UTC+3 ( EEST )
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- city
- Country
- Egypt
- Located in
- Qena Governorate
- Population
- 660690
- Elevation
- 78
- Time zone
- UTC+02:00
- Capital of
- Markaz Naj‘ Ḩammādī
- Image
- Aluminium Stadium.jpg
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- Nag Hammadi
- P8168
- Heinz Becker
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Encyclopedic overview
Plaque of a local sugar refinery that mentions French town Ardres, 1901
Nag Hammadi (/ˌnɑːɡ həˈmɑːdi/ NAHG hə-MAH-dee; Arabic: نجع حمادى Nagʿ Ḥammādī) is a city and markaz in Upper Egypt. It is located on the west bank of the Nile in the Qena Governorate, about 80 kilometres (50 mi) north-west of Luxor. The city had a population of close to 61,737 as of 2023. It was made famous in 1945 for the "Nag Hammadi library," an important collection of ancient texts found nearby.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Nag Hammadi” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.