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Luxor

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Country: Egypt

Population:422,408

Time Zone:UTC+2

With 284,952 residents in 2023, Luxor brings an extraordinary depth of history to a compact 43-square-kilometre area. Known as the City of a Hundred Gates and the City of the Sun, it was once called Thebes and served as one of Ancient Egypt’s capitals. Today, this city in Upper Egypt remains one of the world’s oldest continuously inhabited places and the capital of Luxor Governorate.