Faiyum

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Faiyum

Total population

306,393

Coordinates29.31°, 30.84°

Demographic figures from CAPMAS (Egypt). Overview below cites Wikipedia and may reference a different year.

Overview

Faiyum is a city located geographically in Lower Egypt but culturally and politically in Upper Egypt, 100 kilometres southwest of Cairo. In the Faiyum Oasis, it is the capital of the modern Faiyum Governorate. It is one of Egypt's oldest cities due to its strategic location.

Geography

Coordinates & boundaries from the US Census TIGER/Line shapefiles.

Notable people from here

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Saadia Gaon

rabbi, translator, Jewish philosopher and theologian (0882-0942) active during the Abbasid Caliphate in Egypt and Irak

Sayed Abdel Hafeez

Egyptian association football player

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Mohamed Abdelwahab

Egyptian association football player (1983–2006)

Sayed Moawad

Egyptian footballer

Ali Lutfi Mahmud

Egyptian Prime Minister (1935-2018)

Naguib Sawiris

Egyptian businessman

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Hamdi Abu Golayyel

Egyptian writer (1967–2023)

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Yousef Wali

Egyptian politician

Mariam Fakhr Eddine

Egyptian actress (1936-2014)

Tefta Tashko-Koço

Albanian artist (1910–1947)

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Salah Abdel Kérim

Egyptian sculptor

Zakariyya Ahmad

Egyptian musician and composer (1896–1961)

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Pope John XVIII of Alexandria

Coptic Pope

Youssef Wahbi

Egyptian film director and actor (1898–1982)

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Ahmad Sedik

Egyptian footballer

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Ahmed Saad

Egyptian weightlifter

People born within ~10 km, from Wikidata (CC0). Click any name for their Wikipedia article.

Geography & sun

Elevation, sunrise/sunset and daylight from Open-Meteo. Solar climatology from NASA POWER.

Public attention

Pageview totals from the Wikimedia Pageviews API.

Books about Faiyum

Egypt's mysterious Book of the Faiyum

Horst Beinlich · 2013

Paleolithic man and the Nile-Faiyum divide

Kenneth Stuart Sandford · 1929

Contributions to the anthropology of the Faiyum, Sinai, Sudan [and] Kenya

Henry Field · 1952

Paleolithic man and the Nile-Faiyum Divide

K. S. Sandford · 1929

Some lacustrine Mollusca from the Faiyum depression

E. W. Gardner · 1932

Contributions to the anthropology of the Faiyum, Sinai, Sudan, Kenya

Henry Field · 1952

GREATER THAN A TOURIST- FAIYUM GOVERNORATE EGYPT

FOUAD WAGIH · 2019

Studies on the Faiyūm together with Tārīḫ al-Faiyūm wa-Bilādihī by Abū ʻU ̲tmān an-Nābulusī (d. 1261)

Fuat Sezgin · 1992

Search results from Open Library.

Recently spotted species

Creeping Woodsorrel

Oxalis corniculata

Seen 2026-09-18

Eleven-spotted Ladybird Beetle

Coccinella undecimpunctata

Seen 2025-12-04

African Five-lined Skink

Trachylepis quinquetaeniata

Seen 2025-09-13

Common Bulbul

Pycnonotus barbatus

Seen 2025-06-20

Feral Pigeon

Columba livia domestica

Seen 2025-03-22

Moringa tree

Moringa oleifera

Seen 2025-02-05

Black-winged Kite

Elanus caeruleus

Seen 2024-03-09

Laughing Dove

Spilopelia senegalensis

Seen 2024-03-07

Domestic Cat

Felis catus

Seen 2024-02-18

Research-grade observations from iNaturalist (within ~15 mi).