Aswan

n. city in Egypt

Aswan (Egyptian: Swenet (=trade); Coptic: Swān; Greek: Syene; Aswān; Spanish: Asuán) (, population 200,000) is a city in the south of Egypt, the capital of the Aswan Governorate. It stands on the east bank of the Nile at the first cataract and is a busy market and tourist center.Aswan is one of the driest inhabited places in the world; as of early 2001, the last rain there was 6 years earlier. As of 13 October 2007, the last rainfall was a thunderstorm on May 13 2006. In Nubian settlements, they generally do not bother to roof all of the rooms in their houses.
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Noun
1. an ancient city on the Nile in Egypt; site of the Aswan High Dam
(synonym) Assuan, Assouan
(hypernym) city, metropolis, urban center
(part-holonym) Egypt, Arab Republic of Egypt, United Arab Republic

n. Aswan, city in Egypt

n. Aswan, city in Egypt; Aswan Dam, dam on the Nile River