Giza

Giza or Gizah (, transleeteratit el-Gīzah) is the third mucklest ceety in Egyp. It is locatit on the wast bank o the Nile River, some 20 km soothwast o central Cairo. Alang wi Shubra El-Kheima, Cairo an Helwan, the fower ceeties form the Province o Greater Cairo metropolis. The ceety o Giza is the caipital o the Giza Govrenorate, an is locatit near the northeast border o this govrenorate in coordinates. It is locatit richt on the banks o the River Nile.  The ceety's population wis 2,681,863 in the 2006 naitional census, while the governorate haed 6,272,571 at the same census.  Its muckle population makes it the seicont mucklest suburb in the warld, tied wi Incheon, Korea an Quezon Ceety, Philippines, seicont ae tae Yokohama, Japan.

Giza is maist famous as the location o the Giza Plateau: the site o some o the maist impressive ancient monuments in the warld, includin a complex o auncient Egyptian ryal mortuary an saucrit structures, includin the Great Sphinx, the Great Pyramid o Giza, an a number o ither muckle pyramids an temples. The plateau an its monuments hae been recordit in the Giza Plateau Mapping Project run bi Ancient Egypt Research Associates, directit bi Dr. Mark Lehner."The Giza Plateau Mapping Project", Lehner, Mark; Hunt, Brian V. link  AERA's 2009 field season was recorded in a blog."An archaeology blog from the Giza Pyramids in Egypt", 2009 Hunt, Brian V. link

The Great Pyramid o Giza at ane time wis advocatit (1884) as the location for the Prime Meridian, a reference pynt uised for determinin a base langitude."The Canary Islands and the Question of the Prime Meridian: The Search for Precision in the Measurement of the Earth", Wilcomb E. Washburn. link 

 History 
"Mn Nefer" (Memphis, in Greek) - which means "the bonnie wall" in the ancient Egyptian leid -, the caipital ceety o the first unified Egyptian state since the days o the Pharaoh Narmer, lies nearly 20 km sooth o Giza. Giza's maist famous archaeological site, the Giza Plateau, haulds some o the maist astonishin monuments in Egyptian history. Ance thrivin wi the Nile that flowed richt intae the Giza Plateau, the pyramids o Giza wur built owerleukin the auncient Egyptian caipital o Memphis, which wis near modren day Cairo.


The Giza Plateau is an aa hame tae mony ither ancient Egyptian monuments, includin the tomb o Pharaoh Djet o the First Dynasty, as well as that o Pharaoh Ninetjer o the Seicont Dynasty.

Twinnins
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 See an aa 
Giza Govrenorate
Pyramids o Giza
Great Sphinx
Leet o Egyptian pyramids
Leet o megalithic sites

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Category:Giza Govrenorate
Category:Govrenorate caipitals in Egyp
Category:Giza Plateau
Category:Populatit places in Egyp
Category:Metropolitan auries o Egyp