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Iţsā

Itsa is a city and a Markaz in the Faiyum Governorate, Egypt.

Iţsā
Iţsā · Daniel Schwen
The place

Itsa is a city and a Markaz in the Faiyum Governorate, Egypt. The city is located south of Faiyum. Its population was estimated at 773,167 people in 2021.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Iţsā

One place 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.

  1. 01
    The monastery of the Archangel Gabriel at Naqlun

    The monastery of the Archangel Gabriel at Naqlun – a Coptic monastery of the Archangel Gabriel located in northern Egypt, in the Faiyum Oasis, 16 km south-east of the city of Faiyum in the Libyan Desert.

    9.8 km · building in Naqlun, Fayum, Egypt · Wikipedia

Ranked by the number of language editions of Wikipedia with an article on each, from Wikidata; the sentences are the openings of those articles, CC BY-SA 4.0.

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Getting to Iţsā

Airports
Sphinx (SPX), 97 km · Cairo (CAI), 114 km · Alexandria (HBE), 216 km
  • Al Jiza → Iţsā
    644 km · quickest by road, 14h 15m · $70–95
  • Cairo → Iţsā
    102 km · quickest by road, 2h 6m · E£155–205
  • Alexandria → Iţsā
    234 km · quickest by road, 4h 17m · E£410–550
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Iţsā

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 Iţsā. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.

The nearest places where the work is done
  1. 01
    DahabEG

    8 ways of moving, 29 sources

    372 km
  2. 02
    Wadi RumJO

    8 ways of moving, 23 sources

    450 km
  3. 03
    Petra and Wadi MusaJO

    12 ways of moving, 17 sources

    468 km
  4. 04
    KastellorizoGR

    8 ways of moving, 27 sources

    776 km
  5. 05
    NaxosGR

    12 ways of moving, 17 sources

    1,000 km

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Around it

Next door to Iţsā

Iţsā is 10 km from Al Fayyum, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.