Tanta
Tanta is a city in Egypt.
Tanta is a city in Egypt. It had a population of 530,000 in 2024, making it the seventh most populous city in Egypt. The city is located between Cairo and Alexandria: 94 km (58 mi) north of Cairo and 130 km (81 mi) southeast of Alexandria. The capital of Gharbia Governorate, Tanta is a center for the cotton-ginning industry.
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Worth seeing in and around Tanta
2 places within 25 km that the world writes about, in the order of how widely: the ones a visitor has heard of first, then the ones only a local would name.
- 01Tanta University
Tanta University is an Egyptian university in the city of Tanta, Gharbia, Egypt. The university is under the direct scientific supervision of the Ministry of Higher Education.
1 km · public university in Egypt · Wikipedia - 02Ahmad Al-Badawi Mosque
The Ahmad al-Badawi Mosque is a Sufi mosque and shrine complex in Tanta, in the Gharbia Governorate of Egypt. The mosque's name is derived from the Sufi mystic Ahmad al-Badawi, the founder of the Badawiyya Sufi order, who is buried in the shrine of the building.
100 m · mosque in Egypt · Wikipedia
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What Wikivoyage says to see
The Ahmad Al-Badawi mosque and Al Azher schools were founded hundreds of years back. The sayed al-Badawi mosque is spectacular and can get very very crowded during the festival seasons. Gold and crystal chandeliers, impressive tile work, painted wood, and stained glass decorate this holy place in Tanta's downtown. You can certainly walk there from the train station, it's probably less than 1 km.
- 01Ahmad Al-Badawi Mosque
- 02Tanta Museum
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Where to eat
Near the Mosque of Sayed al-Badawi, on one of the streets to the right side if you're facing the mosque, is a fuul and ta'amiya restaurant called Abu Sina. It's packed with locals eating the delicious fuul. For LE
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Getting to Tanta
- Airports
- Sphinx (SPX), 76 km · Cairo (CAI), 84 km · Alexandria (HBE), 126 km
- Al Jiza → Tanta540 km · quickest by road, 12h 57m · $60–85
- Cairo → Tanta84 km · quickest by road, 1h 47m · E£135–180
- Alexandria → Tanta113 km · quickest by road, 2h 35m · E£165–225
- Plan a tripFrom anywhereThe planner compares every way there from wherever you are.
Road and air are today’s quick answer; timetabled trains, buses and ferries load on the results page from the operators’ feeds.
No local-transport research exists yet for Tanta
Our researched notes are written from a sourced entry: every shared taxi, boat and village bus with its operator, its rule, its fare and the year we saw it, and what could not be confirmed. Nobody has done that work for Tanta. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.
- Get inMinibuses and Peugeot shared taxis abound in other cities.
- Get aroundAnother option is to take one of the public minibuses.
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Next door to Tanta
Tanta is 26 km from Al Maḩallah al Kubrá, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.
- Palm Sunday church bombingsBomb Coptic Churchs in the Nile Delta City of Tanta and Alexandria1.2 km