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Giza

Egypt

Watercolour of Giza, Egypt. On the west bank of the Nile, home to the Giza Plateau, the Great Pyramids, the Great Sphinx, and the Grand Egyptian Museum, with Pyramids of Giza and Great Sphinx.
AI-generated artistic rendering. Painted from written research on the city's setting, architecture and materials — not from a photograph.
What guided this image
Landmarks
Pyramids of Giza; Great Sphinx; Grand Egyptian Museum; Nile River; Nile River; Giza; lush Egyptian floodplain and desert oasis flora; Old Kingdom
Viewpoint
Favor the classic viewpoint looking from the green palm-fringed irrigation canals at the base of the plateau up toward the Pyramids and Sphinx, showing date palm fronds and canal waters in the foreground, the Great Sphinx and lower temples in the middle-ground, and the colossal geometric triangular silhouettes of the Pyramids rising against the soft sky in the background.
Palette
Green should be the predominant color, especially in the thick date palm groves along the Nile floodplain, eucalyptus canopies, and agricultural fields at the foot of the plateau.
Guarded against
Not Cairo proper, Luxor, or Aswan
Population4,367,343Wikidata: 3,021,542
Coordinates30.01°N, 31.21°E
Elevation30 m
Area187 km²
Time zoneAfrica/CairoUTC+2
Solar noon11:55clock runs 0.1 h behind the sun

Through the Earth

Dig straight through the Earth from Giza and you surface in open ocean, nearest to Mataura, French Polynesia — 744 km from the exact antipodal point.

Nearest cities in the atlas

CairoEG7 km
Shubrā al KhaymahEG14 km
AlexandriaEG181 km
JerusalemIL430 km
East JerusalemPS431 km
RamallahPS435 km
AmmanJO501 km
BeirutLB591 km

Twinned cities

2 of 2 twinned cities are in this atlas. See the full network →

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