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Beni Suef

City in Egypt
City City Q394080

Facts

19 properties

Identity

Instance of
city, big city[5]

Location

Country
Egypt[3]
Coordinate location
🗺️ 29.067°, 31.083°[7]
Located in or next to body of water
Nile[4]
Located in the administrative territorial entity
Beni Suef Governorate[2]

Population and size

Elevation above sea level
33 m
Population
10k (10k–294k, n=11)[8][9][10][11][12][13][14][15][16][17]

Codes

Located in time zone
UTC+02:00[6]
⚖ sources disagree Wikidata UTC+02:00 GeoNames Africa/Cairo edition 2026-09-26 · CC BY 4.0 ↗
More facts +11
Located in
Beni Suef Governorate
Capital of
Beni Suef Governorate, Markaz Banī Suwayf
Coordinates
🗺️ 29.067°, 31.083°
Described by source
The Nuttall Encyclopædia, Otto's encyclopedia
Library of congress authority id
no95010844
National library of israel j9u id
987007533477905171
Quora topic
Beni-Suef-Egypt
Thesaurus linguae aegyptiae thesaurus id
TGFX43GARFDVRG3ZZJNJG7IU24
Timezone
UTC+02:00
Viaf id
124631871
‎yale lux id
place/e41b0dc9-d088-4706-bc34-a0736881ab0f
🏷️ Also known as
en Beni Suef en Beni-souef ar بني سويف ar مدينة بني سويف cs Baní Suwajf de Banī Suwaif de Beni Suef de Bani Suwaif el Μπένι Σουέφ es Beni Sweif fa بنی سویف fr Bani Suwayf fr Beni Souef fr Béni Souef fr Beni-Suef he בני סוויף hi बनी स्वेफ़ hu Bani Szuvajf ja ベニ・スエフ ja ベニスエフ
🔖 Identifiers · 25
VIAF cluster ID
124631871
Library of Congress Authorities ID
no95010844
GND ID
4445906-3
Image (Wikimedia Commons)
Flickr - shaimaa85 - beni suef.jpg ↗
Encyclopædia Britannica Online ID
place/Bani-Suwayf-Egypt
FactGrid item ID
Bolęcin
Freebase ID
/m/0dvpbt
GNS Unique Feature ID
-292155
GeoNames ID
359173
Great Russian Encyclopedia Online ID (2017)
1858740
Hrvatska enciklopedija ID
6930
IdRef ID
169827739
Show all 25 identifiers +13
J9U entity ID
987007533477905171
NE.se ID
bani-suwayf
National Historical Museums of Sweden ID
geo/58CC49B9-B96D-4928-B02C-9F026CA49260
Online PWN Encyclopedia ID
3874024
OpenStreetMap node ID
768586066
Quora topic ID
Beni-Suef-Egypt
RKD thesaurus ID
40717
SNARC ID
Yamoussoukro
Thesaurus Linguae Aegyptiae ID
TGFX43GARFDVRG3ZZJNJG7IU24
Topic's main category
Category:Beni Suef
UN/LOCODE
EGBEN
Who's on First ID
1126019909
Yale LUX ID
place/e41b0dc9-d088-4706-bc34-a0736881ab0f

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🔗 Connections
People born here 10
Boutros Ghali, Ali Gomaa, Mohamed Latif, Samia Gamal, Ali El-Kaf, Berlenti Abdul Hamid, Hussein Kamel Montasser, Ahmad Hamrush +2 more
People who died here 3
Murad Bey, Thimi Mitko, Athanasius, Metropolitan of Beni Suef
Contained subdivisions 2
Beni-Suef University, Nahda University
Instance of 2
city, big city
← Place of publication 2
al-Murṣad, al-Salām
Capital of 1
Beni Suef Governorate
Country 1
Egypt
Described by source 1
The Nuttall Encyclopædia
FactGrid item ID 1
Bolęcin
Located in or next to body of water 1
Nile
Located in the administrative territorial entity 1
Beni Suef Governorate
Located in time zone 1
UTC+02:00
Named after 1
New Beni Suef City
SNARC ID 1
Yamoussoukro
Topic's main category 1
Category:Beni Suef
← Capital 1
Beni Suef Governorate
← Category's main topic 1
Category:Beni Suef
← Headquarters location 1
Telephonat Bani Sweif
← Place of burial 1
Athanasius, Metropolitan of Beni Suef
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Summary

Beni Suef is a city[1].

Body

Physical Characteristics

Beni Suef's elevation above sea level is recorded as 33 m[18].

Cultural Significance

Things named for Beni Suef include New Beni Suef City[19], a city[20], in Egypt[21], founded in 1986[22].

Why It Matters

Entities named for it include New Beni Suef City[19], a city[20], in Egypt[21], founded in 1986[22].

Related Entities

Beni-Suef University city Egypt Nahda University Nile

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  2. [5] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  3. [2] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  4. [4] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  5. [6] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  6. [7] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  7. [8] ↑ . citypopulation.de. citypopulation.de. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  8. [9] ↑ . citypopulation.de. citypopulation.de. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  9. [10] ↑ . citypopulation.de. citypopulation.de. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  10. [11] ↑ . citypopulation.de. citypopulation.de. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  11. [12] ↑ . citypopulation.de. citypopulation.de. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  12. [13] ↑ . citypopulation.de. citypopulation.de. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  13. [14] ↑ . Africa: An Encyclopedic Reference. wikidata.org.
  14. [15] ↑ . Great Soviet Encyclopedia (1969–1978). wikidata.org.
  15. [16] ↑ . Great Soviet Encyclopedia (1950–1958). wikidata.org.
  16. [17] ↑ . Great Soviet Encyclopedia. Volume 5, 1927. wikidata.org.
  17. [18] ↑ . geonames.org. geonames.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.

Inverse relationships (entities pointing at this one)

  1. [19] ↑ . wikidata.org. → on this site

Inline context (facts about related entities)

  1. [20] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  2. [21] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  3. [22] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

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