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Country
  
Egypt

Time zone
  
EET (UTC+2)

Governorate
  
Local time
  
Tuesday 9:36 PM

Abu Hummus

Weather
  
15°C, Wind NW at 6 km/h, 74% Humidity

Abu Hummus, also Abu Humus, Abu Hommos, Abu Homos, Abou Homs (Arabic: أبو حمص‎‎) is a town in Beheira Governorate, Egypt, an administrative center of markaz Abu Hummus.

Contents

Map of Abu Hummus, Al Gorn, Markaz Abu Humus, El Beheira Governorate, Egypt

It is named after a sheikh who was born and buried here. Abu Hummus spans between the Cairo-Alexandria Agricultural Road and the El-Mahmoudeya Canal.

Markaz

Population of the markaz Abu Hummus was estimated 348,000 in 2007. The markaz if known as the place of the famous Nakhla meteorite.

References

Abu Hummus Wikipedia