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Place details
- Locality
- نجع حمادي
- Region
- قنا
- Country
- مصر
- Population
- 59,601
- Timezone
- Africa/Cairo
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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 )
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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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- P8168
- Heinz Becker
via Wikidata · CC0
Article
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.