Qus (, older name , from ) is a city in the modern Qena Governorate, Egypt, located on the east bank of the Nile.
Weather now
cached 1420h ago37°clear sky
13% 5.0 m/s OpenWeatherMap
7-day forecast
via Open-Meteo
Place details
- Locality
- مدينه قوص
- Region
- قنا
- Country
- مصر
- Population
- 84,386
- Timezone
- Africa/Cairo
via OpenStreetMap · GeoNames
Key facts
- Settlement.name
- Qusقوص
- Settlement.settlement_type
- City
- Settlement.imagesize
- 200
- Settlement.image_caption
- Fatimid tomb at the north-east of the 'Amri mosque at Qus
- Settlement.pushpin_map
- Egypt
- Settlement.pushpin_label_position
- bottom
- Settlement.pushpin_mapsize
- 300
- Settlement.pushpin_map_caption
- Location in Egypt
- Settlement.pushpin_relief
- 1
- Settlement.subdivision_type
- Country
- Settlement.subdivision_type1
- Governorate
- Settlement.subdivision_name1
- Qena Governorate
- Settlement.unit_pref
- Imperial
- Settlement.area_total_km2
- 215.1
- Settlement.population_as_of
- 2021
- Settlement.population_total
- 512,827
- Settlement.population_density_km2
- auto
- Settlement.population_density_sq_mi
- auto
via Wikipedia infobox
~2 min read
Encyclopedic overview
10 sectionsContents
- History
- Naming
- Overview
- Main sights
- Temple of Haroeris and Heqet
- Economy
- See also
- Notes
- References
- External links
Qus (, older name , from ) is a city in the modern Qena Governorate, Egypt, located on the east bank of the Nile.
==History== ===Naming===
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Qus” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
On the map
4 mapped locations