Nag Hammadi
City in Qena, Egypt / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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This article is about the Egyptian settlement. For the cache of Gnostic texts discovered nearby, see Nag Hammadi library.
Nag Hammadi (/ˌnɑːɡ həˈmɑːdi/ NAHG hə-MAH-dee; Arabic: نجع حمادى Nagʿ Ḥammādī) is a city and markaz in Upper Egypt. It is located on the west bank of the Nile in the Qena Governorate, about 80 kilometres (50 mi) north-west of Luxor. The city had a population of close to 61,737 as of 2023[update].